Poole v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding an exhaustion requirement does not apply to citizenship claims because a person must voluntarily give up a citi- zenship claim
• joining other circuits to hold that a late appeal to the Board leaves a petitioner’s claim unexhausted
• noting in context of § 1432(a) derivative citizenship claim that “the final inquiry focuses on whether Poole’s mother received her citizenship prior to Poole’s eighteenth birthday.”
• noting in context of § 1432(a) derivative citizenship claim that “the final inquiry focuses on whether Poole’s mother received her citizenship prior to Poole’s eighteenth birthday.”
• declining to consider factual assertion in brief unsupported by administrative record
• “Legitimacy is determined by the law of the country in which [petitioner] was born . . . .”

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