Legal Opinion
Javier Ontoniel Bustamante-Barrera v. Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 20, 2006No. 05-60247PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Javier Otoniel Bustamante-Barrera (“Petitioner”) seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (“BIA”) dismissal of his appeal from an Immigration Judge’s (“LJ”) order of removal. Petitioner’s challenge to the BIA’s decision is based on a former version of 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a), under which Petitioner claims to have automatically derived U.S. citizenship when his mother became a naturalized citizen in 1994. Prior to its amendment in 2000, § 1432(a) granted derivative citizenship to a child born outside the United States to alien parents if, before that child’s…
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