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Angeles v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Apr 13, 2018
No. 16-70039 (9th Cir. Apr. 13, 2018)

Opinion

No. 16-70039

04-13-2018

ANTONIO RICO ANGELES, Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Agency No. A031-249-743 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Before: SILVERMAN, PAEZ, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Antonio Rico Angeles, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's order of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo legal claims regarding United States citizenship. Hughes v. Ashcroft, 255 F.3d 752, 755 (9th Cir. 2001). We deny the petition for review.

The agency did not err in determining that Rico Angeles did not establish eligibility for United States citizenship, where he was born in 1959 in the Philippines to two citizens of the Philippines, his father never obtained United States citizenship, and his mother obtained United States citizenship in 1980 when he was no longer under the age of eighteen. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1401 (1959), 1432 (1980); Minasyan v. Gonzales, 401 F.3d 1069, 1075 (9th Cir. 2005) (derivative citizenship is determined under the law in effect at time the critical events giving rise to eligibility occurred); Hughes, 255 F.3d at 760 (8 U.S.C. § 1431 granted automatic citizenship only to those children who were under the age of 18, and who met the other criteria, on February 27, 2001).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.


Summaries of

Angeles v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Apr 13, 2018
No. 16-70039 (9th Cir. Apr. 13, 2018)
Case details for

Angeles v. Sessions

Case Details

Full title:ANTONIO RICO ANGELES, Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Apr 13, 2018

Citations

No. 16-70039 (9th Cir. Apr. 13, 2018)