Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc. v. Valente

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• determining that a denial of a qualifying 1-130 petition, “although significant, [wa]s not determinative of whether the visa petition was meritorious in fact”
• adopting the definition of the term “meritorious in fact” as originally outlined in Lasprilla v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 98 (1st Cir. 2004), in the context of a marriage-based visa petition
• “to be ‘approvable when filed’”, petition “must have been (1) properly filed, (2) meritorious in fact, and (3) not frivolous”

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