Legal Opinion

Munzer A. Zahren v. Alberto R. Gonzales

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 17, 2007No. 06-1301PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Munzer Abuzahreh 1 was born in 1971 in a small West Bank community on the outskirts of Hebron, one of the oldest continually habited cities in the world. In 1994, he entered the United States, but he did not attend Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the school designated in his student visa. This violated a condition of the visa under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(F)(i). But as Abuzahreh later explained, he did not realize (his primary language is Arabic) that he had to attend the precise school named in the visa. He thought he could go to any school in the United…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Jama v. Immigration and Customs EnforcementSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  2. Jihan Hatem Almuhtaseb v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
  3. Haifa Saleh El Himri Musab El Himri v. John Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
  4. Mohammed A. Bastanipour v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
  5. Abdel-Muhti v. AshcroftDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 2004

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Viracacha v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
  2. Gill v. Arab Bank, PLCDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2012
  3. Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief & DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
  4. Fedosseeva, Tatiana v. Gonzales, Alberto R.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
  5. Urgen v. HolderCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2014

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