OKERE v. U.S.

No. 19-3380.

983 F.3d 900 (2020)

Jonathan OKERE and Stella Oluchi Okere, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America and Michael R. Pompeo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Anyah , Attorney, Law Office of Morris A. Anyah LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jonathan C. Haile , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Tashiba Monique Peoples , Attorney, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Scudder, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Jonathan Okere and Stella Oluchi Okere are United States citizens who have spent years trying to get their eight-year-old son from Nigeria to the United States. The Okeres sued in 2018 and in an amended complaint asserted that, although their son had finally received a travel document from the State Department, he has been...

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