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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2201', '§ 701', '§ 246', '§ 1256', '§ 203', '§ 1153', '§ 245', '§ 203', '§ 1153']

569 F2d 1179 Wan Shih Hsieh v. F Kiley | OpenJurist
569 F. 2d 1179 - Wan Shih Hsieh v. F Kiley	Home569 f2d 1179 wan shih hsieh v. f kiley
569 F2d 1179 Wan Shih Hsieh v. F Kiley 569 F.2d 1179
WAN SHIH HSIEH, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Maurice F. KILEY, District Director, Immigration andNaturalization Service, United States Departmentof Justice, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 439, Docket 77-6144.
Argued Dec. 5, 1977.Decided Jan. 12, 1978.
David C. Buxbaum, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.
Robert S. Groban, Jr., Special Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Patrick H. Barth, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
Wan Shih Hsieh, a permanent resident alien of Chinese origin, appeals from an order of the Southern District of New York, Lloyd F. MacMahon, Judge, dismissing her complaint, which purports to invoke federal jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, et seq., and Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 701, et seq., seeking an order directing the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") to pursue and complete an investigation requested of it by the United States Consul in Taiwan into the question of whether her permanent resident status should be rescinded pursuant to § 246(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the "Act") on the ground that it had been acquired through fraud. 8 U.S.C. § 1256(a). We affirm, but with clarification as to the INS's investigative duties in the matter, in view of the district court's opinion on this subject.
Appellant, a native and citizen of Taiwan, was in 1966 admitted into the United States as a non-immigrant, leaving her husband and three children in Taiwan. In February, 1973, appellant invested $7,000 in the Hsin Hsin Chinese Restaurant in Brooklyn, becoming a shareholder of the corporation that owns the restaurant. On April 11, 1973, the United States Department of Labor issued a labor certification to the restaurant authorizing employment of appellant as a specialty chef on the basis of her sworn statement that from 1959 through 1966 she had been employed as a chef in the Kwok Kong Restaurant in Taipei City, Taiwan. Armed with this certificate, the Hsin Hsin Restaurant on April 30, 1973, petitioned the INS to qualify appellant as a sixth preference immigrant pursuant to § 203(a)(6) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1153(a)(6), which was approved on August 9, 1973. On November 9, 1973, appellant's status was accordingly adjusted by the INS to that of permanent resident alien, see § 245 of the Act.1
Having successfully gained permanent resident status for herself, appellant next sought to assist her children in Taiwan to enter the United States as immigrants by petitioning the INS on their behalf to grant them second preference status under § 203(a)(2) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1153(a)(2).2 On April 9, 1975, the INS approved these preference petitions and on July 15, 1975, the children applied to the United States Consulate in Taiwan for immigrant visas. In reviewing their applications