United States First Circuit

In an immigration matter in which petitioner was charged by Department of Homeland Security with removability as an alien convicted of an aggravated felony after admission, removal order is vacated where: 1) informal agreement between petitioner's parents to share legal custody was entitled to effect; and 2) Child Citizenship Act of 2000 requirement that, at the time the statute went into effect, petitioner was "in the legal...custody of the citizen parent", is satisfied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2008
• Published 09/12/2008

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• United States First Circuit

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