KAMARA v. LYNCH

No. 13-60807.

786 F.3d 420 (2015)

Hamid KAMARA, also known as Abdul Karim Kamara, also known as Abdul Kamara, also known as Abdul Karin Kamara, also known as Karim Abdul Kamara, Petitioner v. Loretta LYNCH, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Vincent Schaeffer, YMCA International Services, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.

Justin Robert Markel, Trial Attorney, Robert Dale Tennyson, Jr., Ph.D. , Trial Attorney (argued), Tangerlia Cox,   Joseph D. Hardy, Jr., Esq., Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before JONES, BARKSDALE, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.


Petitioner Hamid Kamara ("Kamara") seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") finding that he lacked derivative United States citizenship under former 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a)(3). We hold that the BIA misinterpreted the reach of this court's decision in Bustamante...

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