United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of a BIA order removing petitioner from the U.S., the matter is transferred to a district court for further review where there was a genuine factual dispute concerning the identity of petitioner's father, and the resolution of this factual dispute would determine whether petitioner acquired derivative citizenship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2009
• Published 07/14/2009

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PROCTER HUG, JR., B. FLETCHER and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leon Rosen, Law Office of Leon Rosen, Las Vegas, NV, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Zanfardino, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia, for the respondent.