ANGELES v. SESSIONS III (2018)

MEMORANDUM **

Antonio Rico Angeles, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s order of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo legal claims regarding United States citizenship. Hughes v. Ashcroft, 255 F.3d 752, 755 (9th Cir. 2001). We deny the petition for review.

The agency did not err in determining that Rico Angeles did not establish eligibility for United States citizenship, where he was born in 1959 in the Philippines to two citizens of the Philippines, his father never obtained United States citizenship, and his mother obtained United States citizenship in 1980 when he was no longer under the age of eighteen. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1401 (1959), 1432 (1980); Minasyan v. Gonzales, 401 F.3d 1069, 1075 (9th Cir. 2005) (derivative citizenship is determined under the law in effect at time the critical events giving rise to eligibility occurred); Hughes, 255 F.3d at 760 (8 U.S.C. § 1431 granted automatic citizenship only to those children who were under the age of 18, and who met the other criteria, on February 27, 2001).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.