Immigration — good-faith marriages

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United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit

Civil

Immigration — good-faith marriages

The BIA reasonably concluded that an alien’s marriage to a citizen was not a good-faith marriage.

“Boadi’s assertion that the immigration judge’s decision was against the manifest weight of the evidence, as the name suggests, requests that we reweigh the immigration judge’s assessment of the evidence— something we cannot do when the application for relief is in the Attorney General’s discretion. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a). However, Boadi again tries to couch this claim as legal. First, Boadi argues that 8 C.F.R. § 216.5(e)(2)(i)-(iv) required the immigration judge to place more weight on the bills and bank account statements that bore both his and Bonds’s name. That regulation, however, merely lists evidence an applicant ‘may’ submit. It does not require the immigration judge to attach a certain weight to it.”

Petition Denied.

12-2742 Boadi v. Holder

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, Flaum, J.