Legal Opinion
Visinscaia v. Napolitano
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 16, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2013-0223PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
This case calls on the Court to decide whether Plaintiff Svetlana Visinscaia is a great ballroom dancer or merely a very good one. Visinscaia, a native and citizen of Moldova, was admitted to the United States on August 5, 2011, on an F-l visa to attend community college in Virginia. Toward the end of her first year in this country, she filed a petition asking the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service to reclassify her as an “alien of extraordinary ability,” a status that would allow her to remain here as a…
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