Legal Opinion
Moshin Yafai v. Mike Pompeo
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 4, 2019No. 18-1205PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, Circuit Judge.
A consular officer twice denied the visa application of Zahoor Ahmed, a citizen of Yemen, on the ground that she had sought to smuggle two children into the United States. Ahmed and her husband Mohsin Yafai-a United States citizen-filed suit challenging the officer's decision. But the decision is facially legitimate and bona fide, so the district court correctly dismissed the plaintiffs' challenge to it under the doctrine of consular nonreviewability.
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Mohsin Yafai and Zahoor Ahmed were born, raised, and married in Yemen. Yafai became a naturalized United States citizen…
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