United States Ninth Circuit

Revocation of a visa petition filed by a church on behalf its choir director is vacated and remanded where the revocation rested on an interpretation of 8 C.F.R. section 204.5(m)(2) that was inconsistent with the regulation and on factual findings that were unsupported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2008
• Decided 12/05/2008
• Published 12/05/2008

Judges

• Before:  WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., JAY S. BYBEE, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Sunghwan Kim, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Keith M. Staub, Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Division, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.