United States Second Circuit

8 U.S.C. section 1155 does not authorize the INS to revoke a previously approved immigrant visa petition when the beneficiary is already inside the United States.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2004
• Published 08/02/2004

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, CABRANES, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan Lee, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Ronald Y. Wada, Berry, Appleman & Leiden LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae American Immigration Lawyers Association., Colleen L. Caden (John A. Quinn, of counsel), Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, P.C., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae American Council on International Personnel and The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.


• For Appellees:
  
• F. Franklin Amanat, Assistant United States Attorney (Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, Steven J. Kim, Assistant United States Attorney, Dione M. Enea, Special Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel;  Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.