United States Eighth Circuit

A marital relationship is not resumed via a proxy marriage until the marriage is actually consummated, and the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in finding that petitioner's parents has resumed their marital relationship before his father was naturalized.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/10/2002
• Published 09/10/2002

Judges

• BYE, Circuit Judge., Before HANSEN, Chief Judge, BOWMAN and BYE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick J. Page, argued, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David E. Dauenheimer, Immigration Litigation Section, DOJ, argued, Washington, DC (John S. Hogan, Immigration Litigation Section, DOJ, Washington, DC, on the brief), for appellee.