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Parties Involved:
Maria Teresa Avalos
Defendant
United States of America
Plaintiff

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JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ

Acting Assistant Attorney General

Civil Division

THOMAS W. HUSSEY

Director

MARK C. WALTERS

Assistant Director

ANNETTE M. WIETECHA

Attorney

PATRICIA M. CORRALES

Attorney-California Bar No. 183249

C/O Office of the Chief Counsel

 300 North Los Angeles Street/Room 8108

 Los Angeles, California 90014

 Telephone: (213) 894-8627

 Facsimile: (213) 894-2648

E-Mail: Patricia.Corrales@DHS.gov

Attorneys for Plaintiff

United States of America

Zachary Nightingale, Esq. CBN 184501

Marc Van Der Hout, CBN #80778

Avantika Shastri, Esq. CBN 233453

Van Der Hout, Brigagliano, Nightingale, LLP

180 Sutter Street, Fifth Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 981-3000

E-Mail: edca@VBlaw.com

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )

) CV-07-01366-GEB-CMK

 PLAINTIFF, )

)

) CONSENT JUDGMENT

) REVOKING 

) NATURALIZATION

 V. ) [PROPOSED] ORDER

)

)

MARIA TERESA AVALOS )

)

 DEFENDANT. )

________________________________ )

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The United States of America ("Plaintiff") has filed a Complaint

seeking to revoke the order admitting ("Defendant") to United States

citizenship and to cancel her certificate of naturalization. The Complaint

alleges that Defendant procured her naturalization illegally as well as by

willfully misrepresenting material facts. Either illegal procurement or

procurement by willful misrepresentation or concealment of material facts

requires that naturalization be revoked pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a). 

Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 778 (1988); Fedorenko v. United

States, 449 U.S. 490, 506-07, 514-15 (1981).

Defendant has read the Complaint and its supporting Affidavit of

Good Cause. As a result of the Settlement Agreement reached between the

parties (Attached as Exhibit A and B), Defendant admits to Counts II of the

Complaint. Furthermore, Defendant concedes that she is subject to

denaturalization pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a), because she procured her

naturalization illegally.

Defendant concedes and admits that she was ineligible, as a matter of

law, for naturalization as a result of committing unlawful acts that adversely

reflected upon her moral character during the statutory period necessary to

become a United States citizen. Specifically, Defendant concedes and

admits that during the statutory period when Defendant was required to

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establish she was a person of good moral character, she committed acts that

reflect adversely on her moral character.

Based upon her admission and concession to Counts II, Defendant

consents to the entry of an Order revoking her Citizenship and cancelling

her Certificate of Naturalization, Number 22 198 014.

 As referenced above, the parties have entered into a Settlement

Agreement concerning this matter, attached hereto as Exhibit A and B.

Approved as to form and substance:

FOR PLAINTIFF:

Dated:_____________ JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ

Acting Assistant Attorney General

Civil Division

MARK C. WALTERS

Assistant Director 

ANNETTE M. WIETECHA

 ___________________________

 PATRICIA M. CORRALES

 Attorney

 Office of Immigration Litigation

 U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division

 300 N. Los Angeles Street/#8108

 Los Angeles, California 90012

 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

 United States of America

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FOR DEFENDANT:

Dated:_____ __________________________ 

ZACHARY M. NIGHTINGALE

 Van Der Hout, Brigagliano &

Nightingale, LLP

 180 Sutter Street, Fifth Floor

 San Francisco, CA 94104

 

 ____________________

 Avantika Shastri Esq.

180 Sutter Street, Fifth Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

Attorneys for Defendant

Dated:____________ _______________________

 Maria Teresa Avalos

 Defendant 

ORDER

 THEREFORE, pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, attached as 

Exhibit A and B, and based upon the admissions and concession made

herein:

THE PARTIES CONSENT TO JUDGMENT AS FOLLOWS, AND IT 

IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

1. The February 21, 1996, naturalization of Defendant ordered by the 

Attorney General of the United States and admitting Defendant to United

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States citizenship, is REVOKED and SET ASIDE and Certificate of 

Naturalization No. 22 198 014, issued by the Attorney General of the United

States, is CANCELLED.

2. From the date of this Order, Defendant is forever RESTRAINED and 

ENJOINED from claiming any rights, privileges, or advantages under any

document that evidences United States citizenship obtained as a result of

Defendant’s February 21, 1996, naturalization.

3. As part of the Settlement Agreement, Defendant is ordered to

SURRENDER and DELIVER her Certificate of Naturalization to the 

Attorney General’s representative, and Defendant further 

is ordered to SURRENDER and DELIVER, if not surrendered previously,

any other indicia of United States citizenship, including her United States

Passport, to the Attorney General’s representative within ten (10) days of 

the Court’s order.

Dated: April 29, 2008

 

 

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

 

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