Legal Opinion
Ajmal Jahed v. Neil Acri, Acting Field Office Director for Detention and Removal Operations
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 13, 2006No. 05-6489PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dismissed by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge DEVER joined.
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from a final order of removal, we must determine whether the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) erred in rejecting Petitioner Ajmal Jahed’s claim of United States citizenship. Jahed, a native of Afghanistan, contends that he attained derivative citizenship pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a) after his parents’ 1991 Pakistani divorce and upon his father’s 1995 naturalization. Jahed, however, has failed to demonstrate that his parents were legally…
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