Legal Assistance for Vietnamese Asylum Seekers v. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the State Department’s decision to deny a consular visa was committed to agency discretion
• noting that State Department is owed discretion on its consular services policies because it involves “balancing complex concerns involving security and diplomacy, State Department resources and the relative demand for visa applications”
• stating that “migrants, as aliens, may not assert a Fifth Amendment right in challenging the procedures for granting immigrant visas” and that “the substantive rights of the citizen-sponsor to a particular process cannot be greater than the right of the applicant himself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).