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5 unusual facts about Walter Polovchak


Erika Holzer

As lawyers, the Holzers have been involved in several pro bono cases, most notably the struggle of the 12-year old defector Walter Polovchak to avoid being forcibly returned to the Soviet Union.

Lily Venson

Among her other stories of note, she covered the immigration battle in Chicago of Walter Polovchak.

Polovchak v. Meese

Walter Polovchak was living in Chicago, Illinois when his parents decided to return to what was then part of the Soviet Union.

Walter Polovchak

The case became a Cold War cause célèbre after the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) allowed him to stay against his parents' will, even as his parents pursued legal means to retake the custody of their son.

Walter Polovchak (born 3 October 1967) is a Ukrainian-American who, as a child, became the center of the legal case Polovchak v. Meese after refusing to leave the United States and return to Ukraine in the Soviet Union with his parents when he was 12.



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