Beatrice Theresa Jaa v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that deliberate delay by the government, in order to see if the applicant became ineligible for an immigrant visa, could be impermissible
• suggesting that deliberate delay by the government, in order to see if the applicant became ineligible for an immigrant visa, could be impermissible
• rejecting petitioner’s argument that the INS should be estopped because the INS took 58 months to adjudicate the application for adjustment of status, during which time the petitioner and her husband got divorced
• for equitable estoppel to apply, the 12 “affirmative misconduct must be more than negligence[;] [m]ere unexplained delay does not 13 show misconduct.”

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