Legal Opinion
Mazen Shweika v. Dep't of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2013No. 12-1645PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
For the past nine years, Mazen Shweika (“Shweika”) has prosecuted a single appli cation for naturalization before both the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. This ongoing process now raises a narrow question: Does the administrative-hearing requirement in 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) establish a jurisdictional limitation on judicial review of the denial of an application for naturalization? We answer the question in the negative and conclude that the district court erred…
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