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2. Petitioner’s Activities
In 1980, petitioner traveled to and from New York and
Europe, spending a month or two at each location. At that time,
petitioner’s wife’s family owned four or five hotels in central
London, the largest of which had 400 rooms.
Shirley Elghanian and Roya were in London until the end of
1981. At that time they went to New York and stayed with
petitioner in the apartment at 279 E. 44th Street. In May 1982,
petitioner, Shirley Elghanian, and Roya moved to an apartment on
57th Street in New York, where they lived until September 1982.
Petitioner and Shirley Elghanian separated in September
1982. Shirley Elghanian and Roya went to London on October 6,
1982. Petitioner went to London in late October 1982, to visit
Roya, to try to reconcile with Shirley Elghanian, and to retain
divorce counsel. Thereafter, petitioner traveled frequently
between London and New York to try to gain custody of Roya and to
conduct business not described in the record in London.
On September 7, 1983, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) authorities stopped petitioner at JFK International
Airport. They alleged that he had presented an altered Iranian
passport. Petitioner told them that personnel at an Iranian
consulate had made handwritten entries on the renewal pages of
petitioner’s Iranian passport, including extending the expiration
date. At that time, in response to a request from an INS
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