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NWOZUZU v. HOLDER

Docket No. 11-5089-ag.

726 F.3d 323 (2013)

Kelechi Gerald NWOZUZU, aka Gerald K. Nwozuzu, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 12, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua E. Bardavid , Law Office of Joshua E. Bardavid ( Theodore N. Cox , Law Office of Theodore N. Cox, on the brief), New York, NY, for Petitioner.

Ernesto H. Molina , Assistant Director ( Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Jaime M. Dowd , Senior Litigation Counsel, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before: WALKER and CHIN, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

CHIN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Kelechi Gerald Nwozuzu was born in Nigeria and came to this country when he was four years old. When he was seventeen, his parents were naturalized as United States citizens. The question presented is whether Nwozuzu's failure to become a lawful permanent resident before turning eighteen years old bars him from claiming derivative citizenship from his parents. We hold it does not.

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