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MANTENA v. JOHNSON

No. 14-2476-cv.

809 F.3d 721 (2015)

Ganga MANTENA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jeh JOHNSON, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Leon Rodriguez, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Mark J. Hazuda, Director of the Nebraska Service Center, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 30, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Hohenstein , Law Office of Joseph Hohenstein, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Christopher Connolly , Benjamin H. Torrance , Assistant United States Attorneys, for Preet Bharara , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Leslie K. Dellon ( Mary Kenney , on the brief), American Immigration Council, Washington, DC; ( Russell R. Abrutyn , on the brief), American Immigration Lawyers Association, Troy, MI; ( Ilana Etkin Greenstein , on the brief), Macias, Greenstein & Kaplan, East Boston, MA; for Amici Curiae American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Association, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before: CALABRESI, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Much of our Court's recent docket has been consumed with poor, often pro se, immigrants who lack, but hope to obtain, legal status. The current case addresses a differently situated immigrant with parallel aspirations. Ganga Mantena, a relatively affluent and skilled computer programmer, legally arrived in...

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