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WEDDERBURN v. I.N.S.

No. 99-2241.

215 F.3d 795 (2000)

Kevin WEDDERBURN, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren L. McFarlane (argued), Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, South Side Office, Chicago, IL, for petitioner.

Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Chicago, IL, Doris Meissner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of the General Counsel, Gretchen M. Wolfinger (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Children born outside the United States, of alien parents, acquire U.S. citizenship automatically if before their eighteenth birthday they move to the United States, and one or both of their parents become U.S. citizens. Section 321(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a). Kevin Wedderburn, who was born in Jamaica of Jamaican parents, contends that he became a citizen on June 2, 1993, four months before his eighteenth...

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