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Until Violence Do Us Part: Evaluating Vawa's Bona Fide Marriage Requirement
15 November 2019
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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Law clerk Anna Boltyanskiy authored a Note titled “Until
Violence Do Us Part: Evaluating VAWA’s Bona Fide Marriage
Requirement” which was published in the April 2019 issue
of Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Her
Note examines the adverse effects of the bona fide marriage
requirement in the immigration provisions of the Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA), and suggests that immigration authorities place
more weight on secondary evidence of bona fide marriage, namely
affidavits.
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