Aumann v. Immigration & Naturalization Sevice
Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (William M. Skretny, Judge), it is hereby
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.
Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Skretny, J.) granting defendants’ motion to dismiss and denying plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment.
Plaintiffs-appellants Shlomzion Aumann and David Aumann (the “Aumann Children”) were born in Israel, in 1982 and 1980, respectively. Their paternal grandfather Robert John Aumann was born in Germany in 1930, became a naturalized United States citizen in 1944, and lived in the United States from 1938 to 1954 and from 1955 to 1956. The father of the Aumann Children, Shelomo Aumann, was born in Israel in 1957, acquired United States citizenship at birth from his U.S. citizen father, and died in 1982. The mother of the Aumann Children has never been a United States citizen.
In 1998, the Aumann Children filed Form N-600 applications for U.S. citizenship. These applications were denied by the defendant-appellee Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”). The Aumann Children then unsuccessfully sought relief in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. We affirm the district court’s judgment, agreeing with both the district court and the INS that the Aumann Children have not demonstrated eligibility for U.S. citizenship.
The Aumann Children also .claim eligibility for U.S. citizenship under 8 U.S.C. § 1433 (INA Section 322) which permits “[a] parent who is a citizen of the United States” to apply for citizenship for a child born outside the United States when the child, inter alia, is “in the legal custody of the citizen parent.” Because the Aumann Children’s father is deceased, they have not demonstrated eligibility for U.S. citizenship pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1433.
Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- David AUMANN, Shlomzion Aumann & Robert John Aumann v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE & Janet Reno, Hon., Attorney General of the United States
- Status
- Published