Legal Opinion
Leal Santos v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 13, 2008No. 07-2110PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
In a removal proceeding before an Immigration Judge (“IJ”), petitioner Aldevino Manuel Leal Santos (“Santos”) argued as a defense that he met the requirements for derivative citizenship because his mother was physically present in the United States for the requisite time prior to his birth. That argument was rejected by the IJ and by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The Third Circuit Court of Appeals transferred the case, for reasons that will become clear later, to the District of Massachusetts for fact-finding on Santos’s derivative citizenship claim. The…
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