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ECHE v. HOLDER

No. 10-17652.

694 F.3d 1026 (2012)

Peter ECHE, Ph. D.; Perry Po-Sheung Lo, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; Janet A. Napolitano, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; David Gulick, USCIS District Director; Walter L. Haith, USCIS District 26 Field Office Director; Susan Teruya, USCIS Immigration Officer, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 11, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Brodsky , Capitola, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Peter Eche, et al.

Samuel P. Go , Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees Eric H. Holder, Attorney General, et al.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Lawful permanent residents of the United States (LPRs) who apply for naturalization as United States citizens must show, inter alia, that they have resided in the United States continuously for five years. See 8 U.S.C. § 1427(a)(1); 8 C.F.R. § 316.2(a)(3)-(4). Each of the two Plaintiffs-Appellants in this case had resided for several years in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a territory...

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