Legal Opinion
Wen Yuan Chan v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 13, 2016No. 15-2112PPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.'
This case presents a question of first impression in this circuit: when United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved an 1-130 “immediate relative” visa petition based on.an alien’s marriage to a United States citizen, does the immigration court, in a parallel removal proceeding, have jurisdiction to inquire into the bona fides of the anchoring marriage? Here, the immigration judge (IJ) answered this question in the affirmative; found the anchoring marriage to be a sham; denied the alien’s request for an adjustment of status; and entered an…
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