Legal Opinion
Edson Acevedo v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2015No. 12-71237PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
Edson Acevedo petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) dismissal of his appeal of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his claim to derivative citizenship and ordering him removed. Acevedo argues that he derived citizenship under 8 U.S.C. § 1431(a) from his United States citizen stepfather. We deny the petition.
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Edson Acevedo was born in Mexico in 1987. Both of his biological parents are Mexican nationals. In 2000, when he was 12 years old, his mother married a United States citizen. The following year, Acevedo’s stepfather filed…
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