United States Second Circuit

District court correctly concluded that the BIA properly dismissed plaintiff's appeal for lack of an adequate prima facie showing of eligibility for naturalization under section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, because that section contains a good-moral-character requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2003
• Published 07/02/2003

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before: KEARSE and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher W. Drinan, Boston, Massachusetts, for Petitioner-Appellant., Washington Square Legal Services, New York, New York (Nancy Morawetz, of counsel, Abigail S. Hendel, Katherine J. Knaus, law student interns), filed a brief for Amici Curiae The National Veterans Legal Services Program, et al., in support of Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ernesto H. Molina, Washington, D.C. (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Senior Litigation Counsel, Patrick Shen, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief) for Respondent-Appellee.