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Consular Report: Jerusalem Issue
May the United States Department of State list the births of American citizens born in Jersualem with a state suffix? The nation follows a calibrated policy of expressing no official view on the thorny issue of whether Jersualem is part of Israel, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit explains in Ari Zivotofsky v. Secretary of State, docket number 07-5347.
On July 10, 2009, the court refuses to force another procedure on the department. It explains its rationale in a 34-page opinion with the nonjusticiable nature of the political question presented. The Consular Report of Birth, an official record of U.S. citizenship for a person born abroad, will remain unchanged. -- Clemens Kochinke, partner, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, DC.
Fri, / Embassy Law Link