Re: RFRA challenge to DNA testing requirement for child's citizenship application (derivative of parental citizenship)

2012-12-08 Thread Ira Lupu
I have a suspicious mind. This case smells of immigration fraud. Ashok and Bakula are American citizens. How did it come to pass that this baby was born to them in India? Did they present evidence of the mother's pregnancy, or of delivery to her in a hospital in India? (What is the source of

RFRA challenge to DNA testing requirement for child's citizenship application (derivative of parental citizenship)

2012-12-07 Thread Volokh, Eugene
From S.T. v. Napolitano, 2012 WL 6048222 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 5): S.T. is a citizen of India. He is currently eleven years old. Bakula and Ashok Trivedi are both natives of India. Ashok became a United States citizen in 1997; Bakula became a citizen in 1995. Bakula and Ashok Trivedi practice the