Supreme Court to Decide Whether a Child’s Acquisition of Citizenship Based on the Different Requirements for Mother’s and Father’s Length of Residency Prior to Birth Violates the Constitution

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

On November 10, 2010, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801), where it must decide whether children born overseas who have one U.S.-citizen parent can obtain U.S. citizenship if the citizen parent had been physically present in the U.S. for a certain [...]