Kevin Wedderburn v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the exceptions apply only where the alien parent is effectively “removed from the picture”
• noting that \it is at least possible that Jamaica permits unmarried persons to obtain a 'legal separation’ \
• explaining that “the INS determines the existence, validity, and dissolution of wedlock using the legal rules of the place where the marriage was performed (or dissolved)”
• reasoning that “[a] law does not become unconstitutional just because it does not fit 100% of the cases”
• recognizing the petitioners’ “diligent search” did not find any Jamaican law proving that Jamaica recognized common-law marriages as of 2000
• explaining that “[s]ection 321(a) limits automatic changes to situations in which the other parent has been removed from the picture — either by death or by ‘legal separation’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).