Legal Opinion
Giovanni Dicicco v. U.S. Department of Justice Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 26, 1989No. 88-1199PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Petitioner, Giovanni Dicicco, appeals the district court’s order denying his petition for naturalization. The district court concluded, as the designated naturalization examiner did before him, that Dicicco is permanently barred from naturalization under section 315 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1426, because of his discharge from military service on the basis of alienage. Dicicco concedes that he received a discharge based on alienage, but claims that his lack of proficiency with the English language precluded him from knowingly and…
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