Legal Opinion
Rios-Valenzuela v. Department of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2007No. 06-50710PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Arturo Rios-Valenzuela appeals from a district court dismissal of his suit seeking a declaratory judgment that he is a citizen of the United States. We affirm.
I
Rios was born in 1956 in Mexico. He claims that his mother was unmarried to his father, and an American citizen at the time, hence she needed only to have been present in the United States for one continuous year for him to be a citizen. 1 The Government contends that Rios’s parents were married Mexican citizens when he was born.
In 1975, the INS granted an application for a green card for Rios…
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