Legal Opinion
Kirk Washington Lewis v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 23, 2007No. Docket 05-1677-agPublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Per curiam
Kirk Washington Lewis petitions for review of a May 6, 2005 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the decision of Immigration Judge Alan A. Vomacka (“IJ”) that Lewis neither derived citizenship from his naturalized father nor warranted a discretionary grant of cancellation of removal. The IJ and BIA reasoned that Lewis did not derive citizenship from his father because his parents, who never married, never effected the “legal separation” that 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a)(3) (repealed 2000) requires before a legitimated alien child may derive citizenship through a single parent. We…
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