Legal Opinion
Atunnise v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 30, 2008No. 06-4008, 07-1287PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge..This case highlights the obstacles that foreigners face in navigating arcane procedures intended to reunite them with their American-citizen spouses in the United States. Here the apparent hurdle was a form that only a consummate bureaucrat could earnestly defend. Christiana Atun-nise, a Nigerian citizen, initially tried to sidestep the rules in 1998 when she used a fraudulent passport in a misguided attempt to join her husband, a Nigerian citizen who was living lawfully in Chicago. She was caught at the airport and sent back to Nigeria the very next day. As a…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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