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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