Yemeni Man’s Derivative Citizenship Claim Rejected by Third Cir.

A man born in Yemen who’s lived in the US for more than 30 years didn’t derive citizenship as a child because his parents weren’t separated at the time his father became a naturalized citizen, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

For a child to be eligible for derivative citizenship under federal law, “the parents must legally separate before the custodial parent becomes naturalized,” Chief Judge Michael A. Chagares said for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The ruling comes as the Trump administration faces legal challenges to actions taken to ramp up federal immigration enforcement and ...