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FINDINGS OF FACT
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found.
A. Petitioner
Petitioner resided in Gretna, Louisiana, when the petition
was filed. He was born and raised in China, where he had the
equivalent of a high school education in the United States.
Petitioner has lived in the United States since 1984.
Petitioner’s Chinese name was Xia Zhi Wu. Petitioner had
brothers named Xia Hung, also known as Steven Morgan, who lived
in New Orleans in 1984, and Xia Zhi Yuang, who lived in Shanghai,
China.
In 1984, Steven Morgan owned a retail framing shop on
Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans (Bourbon
Street store). Petitioner worked for Steven Morgan at the
Bourbon Street store after he arrived in the United States.
Petitioner changed his name to Charles Shaw when he became a
U.S. citizen in 1986. He married Gwendolyn Shaw (Ms. Shaw) in
1986. They bought the Bourbon Street store from Steven Morgan in
1986 and added retail sales of masks, dolls, T-shirts, posters,
and similar merchandise. They had a daughter who was less than
10 years old during the years in issue.
Petitioner and Ms. Shaw were divorced on September 19, 1991.
They did not remarry and were not married at any time during the
years in issue. However, petitioner and Ms. Shaw lived together
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