WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
DALLAS - U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, announced that on Aug. 14, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of two consolidated lawsuits seeking derivative U.S. citizenship and immigration related relief.
The plaintiffs asked the Court to adopt a "constructive presence" doctrine to bypass the statutory physical presence requirements for transmitting citizenship. The Fifth Circuit firmly rejected that theory, emphasizing that Congress, not the courts, defines who may acquire U.S. citizenship.
In a key line summarizing the Court's approach, the panel wrote: "The ap...