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ONYIA v. I.N.S.

No. 93-1767.

15 F.3d 754 (1994)

Emmanuel Echezona ONYIA, Appellant, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert A. Igbanugo, Minneapolis, MN, argued for appellant.

William J. Howard, argued (David J. Kline, on brief) of the Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge and WOODS, District Judge.

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

The appellant, Emmanuel Echezona Onyia, a Nigerian national, entered the United States on a student visa in 1982. In September, 1985, an American citizen, Anita Hayes, petitioned the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for a change-of-status for Onyia, to make him a permanent resident. In her petition she stated that she and Onyia had recently married, making him an immediate relative of a United States citizen. The INS District...

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