Legal Opinion
Kevin Wedderburn v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 1, 2000No. 99-2241PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Children born outside the United States, of alien parents, acquire U.S. citizenship automatically if before their eighteenth birthday they move to the United States, and one or both of their parents become U.S. citizens. Section 321(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a). Kevin Wedderburn, who was born in Jamaica of Jamaican parents, contends that he became a citizen on June 2, 1993, four months before his eighteenth birthday, when his father Fitzroy Wedderburn became a naturalized United States citizen. Immigration officials, by contrast,…
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