United States Sixth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing Petitioner from the U.S., the petition is denied where sufficient evidence supported the BIA's rulings that: 1) Petitioner abandoned her lawful permanent resident status; 2) her seven-year absence from the U.S. was not a temporary visit abroad; 3) her conduct was imputable to her son (an unemancipated minor during the relevant period); and 4) the son did not automatically acquire citizenship based upon his father's naturalization prior to the removal proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/05/2009
• Decided 08/28/2009
• Published 08/28/2009

Judges

• Before: SILER, MOORE, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Marshal E. Hyman, Marshal E. Hyman & Associates, PC, Troy, Michigan, for Petitioners. M. JocelynLopez Wright, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF:Marshal E. Hyman, Russell Reid Abrutyn, Marshal E. Hyman & Associates, PC, Troy, Michigan, for Petitioners. M. JocelynLopez Wright, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.