he Federal District Court granted Ms. Soto Alvarado’s Motion
In a case brought in Federal District Court in Rhode Island an abused spouse whose VAWA self-petition had been approved challenged USCIS’s revocation of her approved petition. The self-petitioner was divorced from her abuser and remarried after filing the self-petition but before the self-petition had been approved. The court’s ruling allows the self-petitioner to fully litigate her challenge the USCIS’s revocation of her self-petition due to remarriage in Federal District Court. The court’s rul
Why it matters
Useful as an amicus or advocacy example on Removal Defense; confirm the cited authority and procedural posture before adapting it.
Topics
Removal defense
Federal court
VAWA / U / T
Forums
USCIS
Federal district court
Jurisdictions
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