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203088P.pdf   03/11/2022  Simon Osagi Iyawe  v.  Merrick B. Garland
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-3088
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Colloton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil Case - Petition for Alien Relative. Alicia Iyawe appeals from the denial of her I-130 Petition for Alien Relative on behalf of her husband, Simon, a citizen of Nigeria. Four prior I- 130 petitions filed by two former spouses were denied based on determinations that the marriages were for the purposes of evading immigration laws and thus fraudulent. Alicia's petition was thus denied. The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed on appeal. On review in district court under the Administrative Procedures Act, the agency's decision was neither arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion. The government gave adequate consideration to the evidence in the record and reasonably gave greater weight to some evidence. There was no clear error of judgment in the BIA's final determination that there was substantial and probative evidence of marriage fraud.