AL-SAADOON v. LYNCH

No. 14-3807.

816 F.3d 1012 (2016)

Orwa Ali AL-SAADOON; Farok Abdulmajid Hamod, Petitioners-Appellants v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States of America; Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; Alejandro Mayorkas, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Sharon V. Dooley, Field Office Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 14, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Igbanugo , argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioners-Appellants.

Christopher Westley Dempsey , argued, Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, SMITH and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


Farok Abdulmajid Hamod and his wife, Orwa Ali Al-Saadoon, appeal the district court's1 denial of their petitions for naturalization. They came to this country on a religious-worker visa in 1999 when Hamod accepted a position at the Al-Amal School in Minnesota. Hamod's visa prohibited him from changing...

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