MARTINEZ v. POMPEO

No. 19-41041.

977 F.3d 457 (2020)

Fernando MARTINEZ; Leticia Guillen Ontiveros; S.L.G.O., a minor, by and through her mother, Leticia Guillen Ontiveros, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mike POMPEO, Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED October 12, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elisabeth S. Brodyaga , Refugio del Rio Grande, San Benito, TX, Javier N. Maldonado , Law Office of Javier N. Maldonado, P.C., San Antonio, TX, Jaime M. Diez , Jones & Crane, Brownsville, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Tashiba Monique Peoples , Office of Immigration Litigation-District Court Section, Washington, DC, Nancy Lynn Masso , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before King, Graves, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.


Fernando Martinez says that he is an American citizen and that his wife and stepdaughter are entitled to immigrant visas. The Government disagreed, and it refused to grant a U.S. passport to Martinez or visas to his family. Martinez, his wife, and his stepdaughter challenged these denials in federal court. The district court dismissed the action...

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