Basiliki Andre Giannoulias v. Herman R. Landon, as District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles District

This case comes before us on appeal from an order of the district court denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a deportation proceeding.

Basiliki Andre Giannoulias was born in Greece in 1912. Desiring to come to the United States, she registered under the Greek quota, first in 1937 and again in 1947, after the pre-war lists were destroyed.

Appellant’s brother, Theodore, lived in Los Angeles and worked in a restaurant there. George Fitsos, one of his coworkers, had a brother, John, in New York who desired to get married. Theodore made known that he had an unmarried sister in Greece and at the instigation of George and Theodore a correspondence with exchange of pictures took place between appellant and John Fitsos. This correspondence resulted in a proposal to marry and in 1950, at a cost of over $700.00, John arranged for appellant’s transportation to Nassau in the Bahamas where, on March 27, they were married in a civil ceremony. The marriage was not consummated at that time because of appellant’s desire to treat the civil ceremony merely as a premarital arrangement and to have a Greek Orthodox wedding subsequently performed when the couple reached Los…