The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens to sue over visa denial for their foreign spouses. According to Reuters, the judgment means that constitutional rights of US citizens are not violated when the government bars their non-citizen spouses from entering the country without explanation.
The court disclosed this in a 6-3 verdict in the case between the Department of State v. Sandra Munoz, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 23-334. Munoz, a U.S. citizen and civil rights lawyer, cannot challenge the U.S. Department of State's denial of her El Salvadoran husband's visa application after the agency waited three years to explain that it suspected him of being a gang member.
Her claim 'involves more than marriage and more than spousal cohabitation — it includes the right to have her noncitizen husband enter the United States,' Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court. The ruling reverses a 2022 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived Munoz's lawsuit against the State Department. The Immigration Reform Law Institute, a conservative group that filed a brief backing the State Department, praised the ruling.
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