SOOK YOUNG HONG v. NAPOLITANO

Civil No. 10-00379 SOM/KSC.

772 F.Supp.2d 1270 (2011)

SOOK YOUNG HONG, Plaintiff, v. Janet NAPOLITANO, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States; and David Gulick, District Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Honolulu District Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Hawai`i.

February 18, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathy M. Kim , Honolulu, HI, for Plaintiff.

Edric Ming-Kai Ching , Office of the United States Attorney, Amanda S. Chang , Ronald T. Oldenburg , Honolulu, HI, Neelam Ihsanullah , Victor M. Lawrence , U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation District Court Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFF

SUSAN OKI MOLLWAY, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION.

The Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA" or the "Act") permits United States citizens to petition for "immediate relative" status for their foreign-born children, including adopted children "adopted while under the age of sixteen years." Plaintiff Sook Young Hong adopted her son...

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