Antonio Rico Angeles v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ANTONIO RICO ANGELES,
Petitioner,
v.
JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney
General,
Respondent.
No. 16-70039
Agency No. A031-249-743
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted April 11, 2018**
Before: SILVERMAN, PAEZ, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.
Antonio Rico Angeles, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions pro
se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal
from an immigration judge’s order of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8
U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo legal claims regarding United States
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
FILED
APR 13 2018
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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citizenship. Hughes v. Ashcroft, 255 F.3d 752, 755 (9th Cir. 2001). We deny the
petition for review.
The agency did not err in determining that Rico Angeles did not establish
eligibility for United States citizenship, where he was born in 1959 in the
Philippines to two citizens of the Philippines, his father never obtained United
States citizenship, and his mother obtained United States citizenship in 1980 when
he was no longer under the age of eighteen. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1401 (1959), 1432
(1980); Minasyan v. Gonzales, 401 F.3d 1069, 1075 (9th Cir. 2005) (derivative
citizenship is determined under the law in effect at time the critical events giving
rise to eligibility occurred); Hughes, 255 F.3d at 760 (8 U.S.C. § 1431 granted
automatic citizenship only to those children who were under the age of 18, and
who met the other criteria, on February 27, 2001).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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