Bogar Allax Monter v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a misrepresentation made to procure a visa or entry into the United States is material if it “tends to shut off a line of inquiry” relevant to eligibility
• stating that a misrepresentation is material if it has “‘a natural tendency to influence or was capable of influencing, the decision of the decisionmaking body to which it was addressed’” (quoting Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 770 (1988))
• “[W]here an immigration court finds that an alien has made a material misrepresentation, the [Immigration Judge] must also determine whether that alien has rebutted the resulting presumption that he or she would have been removable if the true facts had been known . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).