Legal Opinion
Yaman v. United States Department of State
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 18, 2011No. 10-5136PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
In May 2009, Appellant Linda Yaman (“Ms. Yaman”) requested United States passports from the State Department for her two young children at a U.S. Consulate abroad. Ms. Yaman’s ex-husband, a Turkish national, apparently had refused to relinquish physical possession of the passports that the State Department had previously issued for the children. The State Department initially denied Ms. Ya-man’s application on the ground that passports generally will not be issued to minors without the consent of both parents. Ms. Yaman then filed a timely request for…
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