BAYO v. NAPOLITANO

No. 07-1069.

593 F.3d 495 (2010)

Mohammed BAYO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Janet A. NAPOLITANO, Secretary of Homeland Security, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laureen R. Anderson (argued), Stanley J. Horn, Attorney, Horn, Khalaf, Abuzir, Mitchell, & Schmidt, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Walter M. Evans, Attorney (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Stephen W. Manning, Attorney, Immigrant Law Group LLP, Portland, OR, Geoffrey Heeren, Attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER, POSNER, COFFEY, FLAUM, KANNE, ROVNER, WOOD, EVANS, WILLIAMS, SYKES, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Mohammed Bayo is not the most sympathetic of litigants. He is a citizen of Guinea, but he stole a Belgian passport and used it to enter the United States fraudulently. Why, one might ask, would he go to the trouble of doing this? Guineans are entitled to visit the United States, provided they observe the required formalities. But Guinea is not one of the 35 countries that comes within the State Department's Visa Waiver Program ("VWP"); Belgium...

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