US citizenship can be revoked?
If you gain US citizenship through the naturalization,US citizenship
can be revoked at any reason? |
Re: US citizenship can be revoked?
> If you gain US citizenship through the naturalization,US citizenship
> can be revoked at any reason? There are certain specified reasons for which naturalized citizenship can be revoked. In general, if it's discovered that a naturalized citizen obtained his permanent resident status or his citizenship through fraud or deception, then the citizenship can be revoked on the basis that it should never have been granted in the first place. There are also laws which will lead to revocation of naturalized citizenship if the person was involved with the government of Nazi Germany. Additionally, any US citizen, naturalized or otherwise, may lose citizenship if he commits certain actions WITH the intention of giving up US citizenship. These actions include (oaths to a foreign government, employment in a foreign government, serving in a foreign military, etc.) Stephen Gallagher |
Re: US citizenship can be revoked?
"randmhinformation" wrote:
> If you gain US citizenship through the naturalization, > US citizenship can be revoked at any reason? The question was somewhat garbled grammatically, but I'm assuming the original poster meant to say, "If you gain US citizenship through naturalization, are there any reasons for which it can be revoked?" There are indeed a limited number of reasons why US citizenship obtained through naturalization can be revoked later on. In general, these reasons involve concealment or misrepresentation of material facts (i.e., lying about important things) when the person applied for immigration or for citizenship. For example, a naturalized citizen who neglected to mention that he had been a Nazi war criminal prior to immigrating to the US -- something that would have kept him from immigrating in the first place -- could have his US citizenship revoked, even decades later. In such a case, a spouse or children who immigrated to the US along with the person in question could also lose US citizenship (even if they themselves hadn't done anything wrong). However, US-born children of such parents do NOT have their citizenship revoked. There are a few situations in which an action performed after US naturalization may be presumed to indicate that the person in question had obtained citizenship fraudulently. For example, if a new US citizen joins a communist or totalitarian organization within five years after naturalization, this is "prima facie evidence" (i.e., a presumption, but one that can be overcome with sufficient contrary evidence) that the person had lied when he said on his naturalization application that he was "attached to the principles of the Constitution" and "well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States". At one time, applicants for US citizenship were required to state an intention to live permanently in the US after naturalization. When this requirement was in effect, a new citizen who moved away from the US within a few years after naturalization could have his naturalization revoked on the grounds that he had not really intended to live in the US permanently after all. Between 1986 and 1994, this could happen if one moved perma- nently abroad within a year after naturalization. Before that, it was five years -- and, at one time, a naturalized US citizen who remained abroad for an extended period, even many years after naturalization, could lose his citizenship (though this last provision was struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1964). The last vestiges of this ban on post-naturalization foreign residency were repealed in 1994, though, and no one loses his US citizenship any more because of moving abroad after having become a US citizen. And, in addition to the above, a naturalized US citizen can lose his US citizenship by doing any of the things that would cause a natural-born US citizen to lose citizenship. For example, a US citizen who becomes a citizen of another country can thereby lose his US citizenship -- but ONLY if it was the person's INTENTION to give up US citizenship as part of the foreign naturalization. (At one time, loss of US citizenship as a result of obtaining a foreign citizenship was more or less automatic, but as a result of Supreme Court rulings, changes to the law by Congress, and changes in State Dept. policies, this is no longer the case.) Note, by the way, that even though the US naturalization oath contains a blanket renunciatory clause (a statement in which the new citizen disavows all prior allegiances), continued retention of exercise of one's old citizenship after obtaining US citi- zenship is NOT normally used today as a basis for revoking US naturalization. Thus, if one's "old country" chooses to ignore the renunciatory language in the US naturalization oath, a new US citizen may continue to acknowledge and exercise his old citizenship (when dealing with his old country) without fear of putting his US naturalization in danger. Rich Wales [email protected] http://www.richw.org/dualcit/ *DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, professional immigration consultant, or consular officer. My comments are for discussion purposes only and are not intended to be relied upon as legal or professional advice. |
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