Legal Opinion
Malave v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 2010No. 19-3464PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Manuela Malave, a citizen of Nicaragua, was ordered removed from the United States after an immigration judge concluded that she had paid $1,000 to her ex-husband to enter into a sham marriage for the purpose of securing an immigration benefit. Malave applied for cancellation of removal under § 202 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, 111 Stat. 2193, as amended by 111 Stat. 2644 (1997). Section 202 of NA-CARA is reproduced as a note following 8 U.S.C. § 1255. But the IJ’s finding of a sham marriage made her inadmissible under § 212(a)(6)(C)®…
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