Legal Opinion
Edwin Cepeda Cabrera v. Attorney General United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 19, 2019No. 18-2192PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RENDELL, Circuit Judge:
Edwin Rafael Cepeda Cabrera was born in the Dominican Republic in 1979 and admitted to the United States as a lawful *403 permanent resident in 1988. Two years later, he was adopted by a natural born U.S. citizen, Randolph Benn Attenborough. Had he been Attenborough's biological child, then Section 309 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1409 , would have provided him a pathway to obtain automatic derivative citizenship. But since he is an adopted child, the statute does not apply to him and his road to citizenship is more arduous. In his view, this…
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