Case Name: Helen Francisco GUINOOBAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-10-17
Citations: 542 F. App'x 614
Docket Number: No. 09-72688
Parties: Helen Francisco GUINOOBAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PAEZ and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and ERICKSON, Chief District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 542
Pages: 614–615

Head Matter:
Helen Francisco GUINOOBAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-72688.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 10, 2013.
Filed Oct. 17, 2013.
Lori Beth Schoenberg, Law Offices of John R. Perry, Encino, CA, for Petitioner.
Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, KAtharine Clark, Esquire, Carmel Aileen Morgan, Esquire, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: PAEZ and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and ERICKSON, Chief District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Ralph R. Erickson, Chief District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Helen Francisco Guinooban, a native of the Philippines, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming an order of removal. Gui-nooban argues that she obtained derivative citizenship through her deceased father, who became a naturalized citizen on December 9, 1992. We deny the petition.
Guinooban was born in the Philippines on June 4, 1946 to parents who were not United States citizens. When Guinooban was born, the Philippines were an outlying possession of the United States. Rabang v. INS, 35 F.3d 1449, 1450-51 (9th Cir. 1994). She therefore did not acquire citizenship at birth under former section 201(i) of the Nationality Act of 1940, which applied only to "persons born outside the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States." 8 U.S.C. § 601(0 (1946) (repealed 1952). Nor did Guinooban derive United States citizenship through her father's 1992 naturalization because she was forty-six years old at the time. See 8 U.S.C. § 1432(a)(4) (1988) (providing that a child derives United States citizenship through a naturalized parent only if the child had not reached his or her eighteenth birthday on the date of the parent's naturalization).
Counsel for Guinooban has moved to withdraw, avowing that she cannot establish contact with her client. That motion is granted.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED; MOTION TO WITHDRAW GRANTED.
xhiS disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.