Immigration Legislation

Immigration Legislation

Immigration and Nationality Act in 2011

United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): On June 13, 2011, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholding provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (“INA”) that prescribe the eligibility requirements for U.S. citizens to transmit citizenship to their children born out of wedlock outside the United States. Flores-Villar v. United States, 130 S.Ct. 1878 (2011). By a vote of four to four (Justice Kagan was recused), the Supreme Court allowed the Ninth Circuit's decision to stand without issuing an opinion. The Ninth Circuit's decision rejected a constitutional challenge to provisions of the INA on equal protection grounds based on the longer requirement for presence in the United States for a U.S.-citizen father than for a U.S.-citizen mother to transmit U.S. citizenship to a child. see this world legal encyclopedia in relation with the year 2010 at 1-6.

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See Also

  • Nationality
  • Citizenship
  • Immigration

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