Nikolaas \Kallie\ Knoetze v. The United States of America, the Department of State

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• concluding that revocation of visa while alien is in United States does not implicate liberty or property interest because removal might not result
• concluding that “revocation of an entry visa issued to an alien already within our country has no effect upon the alien’s liberty or property interests”
• discussing difference between Secretary of State’s authority to revoke immigrant visa and Attorney General’s removal power, and holding that due process protections for latter are greater than for former
• rejecting due process claim involving Secretary of State’s revocation of consular non-immigrant visa because revocation does not result in immediate deportation and deportation proceedings have “significant procedural safeguards”
• noting, after it upheld the validity of the visa revocation, that “strong evidence of the politicization of an otherwise routine bureaucratic decision might raise a suspicion of discriminatory agency action”
• Fifth Amendment protection extends to all persons within the United States but attaches only when the federal government seeks to deny a liberty or property interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).