Legal Opinion
Romero-Ruiz v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2008No. 06-74494PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
This petition for review presents the question of whether an immigrant who did not have lawful permanent resident status at the time of his mother’s naturalization is eligible for derivative citizenship. We conclude that he is not, and deny the petition.
I
Christian Romero-Ruiz was born in Mexico in 1981, and entered the United States without admission or parole in 1985. Romero-Ruiz grew up in the United States, attending schools in Tucson, Arizona. In January 1999, while Romero-Ruiz was under the age of eighteen, his mother became a naturalized United States citizen. In…
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