KOSSOV v. I.N.S.

No. 96-3910.

132 F.3d 405 (1998)

Lioudmila KOSSOV and Pavel Kossov, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary L. Sfasciotti (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Janet Reno, U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty. General, Washington, DC, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Chicago, IL, Thomas P. Walsh, Office of the U.S. Atty. Civil Div., Chicago, IL, David M. McConnell, Kristal A. Marlow, Terri J. Lavi, James A. Hunolt, Dept. of Justice Civil Div., Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Tina Potuto (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Div., Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before CUMMINGS, BAUER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Lioudmila Kossov and her husband, Pavel, came to the United States as visitors from the Soviet Union in 1991. Mrs. Kossov was born in the portion of the former Soviet Union that is now Russia and moved to what is now Latvia when she was seventeen. Mr. Kossov was born in what is now Latvia, of Russian parents, and lived there until the time the couple came to the United States.

The Kossovs held tourist visas that authorized them to...

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