Collins v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services

OPINIÓN

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

There is no official record of Olufemi Collins’s birth. When he was born , in Nigeria, the country had no birth register. For most of his life, Collins relied on his mother’s memory to establish his birth date. When he emigrated to the United States on a student visa in 1973, his Nigerian passport listed the birth date confirmed by his mother — Juíy 17,1952. Collins supplied this birth date — validated by his mother and memorialized on his Nigerian passport — when he was naturalized in 1987.

Collins first learned.that he had been mistaken about his true birthday…