Legal Opinion
Ijeoma Ejelonu v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 8, 2004No. 01-3928PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtClay, J., joined by Moore, J.,
BATCHELDER, J. (pp. 552-58), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner is a gainfully employed legal immigrant in her early twenties who currently studies psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. By all accounts, Petitioner should be a citizen; but for the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (“INS’s”) extended delay in processing Petitioner’s citizenship application, the agency would have processed her application before Petitioner’s eighteenth birthday and she would now in all likelihood be an American citizen. Petitioner was never…
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