Deceased Husband’s Citizenship Appeal for Wife Can Move Forward

A Nigerian woman can reopen her case for US citizenship with a widow’s petition two years after her husband’s death, the Sixth Circuit decided in an unpublished opinion Monday.

Josephine Macfadyen sued the Department of Homeland Security and others for denying a petition by her now-deceased husband, David King, for spousal US citizenship. The government argued that it couldn’t grant the petition because King failed to prove that Macfadyen’s divorce to her previous husband was finalized when King and Macfadyen married.

According to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, King procured two different documents that showed Macfadyen ...