In Tuan Anh Nguyen v. Immigration & Naturalization Serv. (533 U.S. 53 [June 11, 2001]), the Court examined the legislative scheme that determined how a child, born outside the United States, acquired citizenship when the parents were not married and when only one parent is a citizen. Nguyen is analyzed from a gender-based, equal protection point of view. On a surface level, it should be. However, it can also be looked at as a child's rights case that allocates a very important right, citizenship, based on the child's relationship to his mother or father.