(U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday against strengthening marriage rights for binational couples who wish to live together in the United States.
Justices found in Kerry v. Din that naturalized U.S. citizen Fauzia Din cannot force greater explanation about or overturn in court the rejection of her Afghan husband Kanishka Berashk’s visa application.
The couple married in 2006. A year later, Din became an American citizen and Berashk requested a U.S. visa to join her. But his prior work in the Taliban-controlled government of Afghanistan apparently derailed the plan.