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Citizenship

The Third Circuit affirmed that a French man is not a U.S. citizen, though his parents are; they never married, so he cannot naturalize through his father.

PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit affirmed that a French man is not a U.S. citizen, though his parents are; they never married, so he cannot naturalize through his father.

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