Legal Opinion
Sharma v. Taylor
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 26, 2014No. Civil Action No. 1:14cv240PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
This is a civil action brought pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1421(c) seeking review of a denial of an application for naturalization by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”). Petitioner contends USCIS erred in denying her January 22, 2013 naturalization application in the face of a sentence commutation granted by the Governor of Virginia reducing by one day the one-year sentence she received for a 1995 felony larceny conviction. Because the Governor labeled the commutation order “nunc pro tunc ” to the date of petitioner’s…
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