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ATUNNISE v. MUKASEY

Nos. 06-4008, 07-1287.

523 F.3d 830 (2008)

Christiana O. ATUNNISE, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 30, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hanna Logan Stotland (argued), Stowell & Friedman, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Mary J. Candaux, Peter H. Matson (argued), Anh-Thu P. Mai, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before ROVNER, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

This case highlights the obstacles that foreigners face in navigating arcane procedures intended to reunite them with their American-citizen spouses in the United States. Here the apparent hurdle was a form that only a consummate bureaucrat could earnestly defend. Christiana Atunnise, a Nigerian citizen, initially tried to sidestep the rules in 1998 when she used a fraudulent passport in a misguided attempt to join her husband, a Nigerian citizen...

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