MORALES-SANTANA v. LYNCH

Docket No. 11-1252-ag.

792 F.3d 256 (2015)

Luis Ramon MORALES-SANTANA, aka Luis Morales, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Submission: November 14, 2014.

Decided: July 8, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Broome ( Ellyde Roko and Jacob Waldman , on the brief), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner.

Imran R. Zaidi , Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC ( Stuart Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Stephen J. Flynn , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Kathryn M. McKinney , Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, on the brief), for Respondent.

Before: LOHIER, CARNEY, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


Luis Ramon Morales-Santana asks us to review a March 3, 2011 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his motion to reopen his removal proceedings relating to his claim of derivative citizenship. Under the statute in effect when Morales-Santana was born — the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952...

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