Legal Opinion
Peter Eche v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2012No. 10-17652PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
Lawful permanent residents of the United States (LPRs) who apply for naturalization as United States citizens must show, inter alia, that they have resided in the United States continuously for five years. See 8 U.S.C. § 1427(a)(1); 8 C.F.R. § 316.2(a)(3)-(4). Each of the two Plaintiffs-Appellants in this case had resided for several years in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a territory of the United States, when federal immigration law replaced CNMI immigration law there in 2009: The issue we must decide in this appeal is whether the…
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