Decision date: 2020-11-16

Upholding the district court's grant of summary judgment to Government because substantial evidence supported the BIA's affirmance of USCIS's denial of I-130 Petition based on the finding that Plaintiff's wife had previously entered into a marriage for purposes of evading the immigration laws, where the wife's former husband admitted that their marriage was fraudulent.

Publication Status: Unpublished

Case judge: Harris, Quattlebaum, Richardson

Decision: Owusu-Boakye v. Barr, 836 F. App'x 131 (4th Cir. 2020)