United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision denying Mexican petitioner's claim, that he derived citizenship from his United States citizen stepfather, is denied where: 1) petitioner did not derive citizenship under 8 U.S.C. section 1431(a) from his stepfather, who married his non-citizen mother after he was born and never adopted him; and 2) the BIA correctly concluded in Matter of Guzman-Gomez that the definition of "child" in section 101(c)(1), the portion of the Immigration and Naturalization Act that applies to citizenship and naturalization, does not include stepchildren.

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• Decided 08/24/2015
• Published 08/24/2015

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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