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THOMAS v. LYNCH

No. 15-1805.

828 F.3d 11 (2016)

Pierre THOMAS, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 5, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rhonda F. Gelfman , with whom The Law Offices of Rhonda F. Gelfman, P.A., North Miami Beach, FL, were on brief, for petitioner.

Linda Y. Cheng , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, with whom Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Anthony P. Nicastro , Acting Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Kayatta, Barron, and Stahl, Circuit Judges.

We must decide in this case whether petitioner Pierre Thomas satisfied the applicable statutory criteria for obtaining derivative citizenship in consequence of his mother's naturalization. Those criteria were set forth in the derivative citizenship statute that was in effect at the time that Thomas was still a minor. Thomas...

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