BOURDON v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

No. 17-15787.

940 F.3d 537 (2019)

Douglas BOURDON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS), Jeh Charles Johnson, Secretary of DHS, Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the United States, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Leon Rodriguez, Director of the USCIS, Tony Bryson, District Director, District 10, USCIS, Laura Castillo, Acting Field Office Director, West Palm Beach Field Office, USCIS, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira J. Kurzban , John Patrick Pratt , Edward Fortunato Ramos , Ian Keith Shaw , Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt, PA, CORAL GABLES, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Gladys Marta Steffens Guzman , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, WASHINGTON, DC, Troy David Liggett , U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Marilynn Koonce Lindsey , U.S. Attorney's Office, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Lindsay Marie Vick , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, WASHINGTON, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JORDAN, GRANT, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.


Douglas Bourdon, a United States citizen, sought to bring his wife, a Vietnamese citizen, here to the United States under a program that allows sponsorship of close relatives. But a problem presented itself: Bourdon had been convicted of possession of child pornography, which put him outside the bounds of the visa-sponsorship...

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