Legal Opinion
Valerie Isabelle Wauchope Ellen Mary Kinahan v. United States Department of State, Secretary of State, James Baker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1993No. 91-15482PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
The United States Department of State and the Secretary of State appeal the decision of the district court declaring two foreign-born offspring of United States citizen mothers to be citizens of the United States. We affirm.
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Valerie Wauchope was born in Canada, on July 11, 1931, to a United States citizen mother (Nora Greenaway Hunter, nee Armstrong, born in New York in 1904) and a Canadian citizen father. Both her parents are now deceased. On October 31, 1989, Wauchope applied for a United States passport in San Francisco, claiming that she was an American citizen by…
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