Legal Opinion
Morales-Santana v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 8, 2015No. Docket No. 11-1252-agPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOHIER, Circuit Judge:
Luis Ramon Morales-Santana asks us to review a March 3, 2011 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his motion to reopen his removal proceedings relating to his claim of deriva-five citizenship. Under the statute in effect when Morales-Santana was born — the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the “1952 Act”) — a child born abroad to an unwed citizen mother and non-citizen father has citizenship at birth so long as the mother was present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of at least one year at some…
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