Legal Opinion

Tesfay v. Holder

District Court, D. Nevada

Decided April 26, 2013No. 2:11-CV-01545-PMP-VCFPublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

PHILIP M. PRO, District Judge.

Presently before this Court is Petitioner Yetbarek Yohannes Tesfay’s (“Tesfay”) Motion for Order Amending Naturalization Certificate (Doc. # 19), filed on January 11, 2013. Respondents Eric Holder, Alejandro Mayorkas, John Kramer, and Janet Napolitano (“Respondents”) filed a Response (Doc. #20) on February 14, 2013. Tesfay filed a Reply (Doc. # 21) on March 14, 2013.

I. BACKGROUND

Tesfay alleges he was born in Eritrea on January 12, 1948. (Compl.(Doc.# 1) at 2.) Due to civil unrest in Eritrea, Tesfay fled from Eritrea to Sudan in 1965.(Id.) Upon entering…

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