Gulamali Karmali & Af-Chim Pullman Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Gulamali Karmali and AF-CHIM Pullman Enterprises, Inc. (AF-CHIM) appeal from the magistrate’s grant of summary judgment upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (Service) denial of AF-CHIM’s petition for an intra-company transfer visa on behalf of Karmali. We affirm.

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Karmali was born in Tanzania. He subsequently emigrated to Canada and became a Canadian citizen. In November 1976, Karmali began employment with AFCHIM, a Canadian corporation closely held by his brother-in-law, Sultan Nazerali Walji. Karmali was “to assist and to investigate new holdings in the…