VALMONTE v. I.N.S.

Docket No. 96-4194.

136 F.3d 914 (1998)

Rosario Santillan VALMONTE, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elly Velez Pamatong, Hollis, NY, for Petitioner.

Jonathan E. Demson, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, Steven M. Haber, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York City, of counsel), for Respondent.

Before MESKILL and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, District Judge.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge's decision to deny petitioner's application for suspension of deportation and order petitioner deported to her native Philippine Islands (Philippines). The issue on appeal is whether petitioner's birth in the Philippines while that country was a United States territory confers on her United States citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment...

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