PEIGNAND

Interim Decision #2044 MATTER OF PEIGNAND In Deportation Proceedings A-11862196 Decided by Board May 1, 1970 Since respondent, who was born out of wedlock on January 29, 1936, was never legitimated, he did not, through the naturalization of his mother in December 1943, acquire U.S. citizenship under the Nationality Act of 1940, neither did he derive citizenship under section 321(a) of the Immi- gration and Nationality Act since he was over 16 years of age on Decem- ber 24, 1952, the effective date of the Act.* CHARGE: Order: Act of 1952— Section 241(a) (11) [8 U.S.C. 1251 (a) (11) I—Con-…