Judicial Review of Visa Decisions After the Supreme Court’s Decision in Department of State v. Muñoz
In Department of State v. Muñoz , 602 U.S. 899 (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that a U.S. citizen and her noncitizen spouse had no access to judicial review of a consular officer’s denial of an immigrant visa. The Court held that a U.S. citizen has no “fundamental liberty interest” i n her spouse’s admission to the United States. This practice advisory, by the American Immigration Council, the International Refugee Assistance Project, and the Consular Accountability Project, is intende
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Useful as a practitioner-oriented overview from American Immigration Council on Asylum; review the source material for the most current authority and procedure.
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