Legal Opinion
Sunny Viloria v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2015No. 11-73725PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Sunny Calaogan Viloria is the adopted son of a natural-born U.S. citizen father and a naturalized U.S. citizen mother. Born in the Phillippines in 1978, he entered the United States on an IR4 orphan visa at age seven. In June 2010, the government served him with a Notice to Appear charging him as removable based on his conviction for a third-degree drug offense seven years earlier. See 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(B)®.
Viloria argued before the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) that he was not removable because he obtained automatic derivative citizenship from his…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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