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CRUZ v. FARQUHARSON

No. 00-2261.

252 F.3d 530 (2001)

Maria Antonia CRUZ, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Steven J. FARQUHARSON, as District Director of the Boston District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cristóbal Bonifaz, with whom John C. Bonifaz and Law Offices of Cristóbal Bonifaz were on brief, for appellants.

Papu Sandhu, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, with whom Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the manner in which the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) processes (or fails to process) petitions by citizens requesting permanent residence in the United States for their alien spouses. These importunings are commonly called "immediate relative" visa petitions (IRV petitions). The pertinent statute is 8 U.S.C. § 1154(a) (1994 & Supp. IV 1998), pursuant to which a United States citizen may file an IRV...

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