{"id":648,"date":"2023-06-08T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:12:42","slug":"can-naturalized-citizens-lose-their-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/can-naturalized-citizens-lose-their-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Naturalized Citizens Lose Their Citizenship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After you have obtained your US citizenship, you are generally able to maintain it for the rest of your life. However, in certain specific situations, the United States may choose to revoke your citizenship, or you might choose to give it up on your own. The denaturalization process involuntarily removes your US citizenship, while the renunciation process occurs if you choose to voluntarily give up your citizenship. How can naturalized citizens lose their citizenship? <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Denaturalization <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The United States government can elect to remove or revoke\nyour citizenship through a process known as denaturalization. This can occur\nfor a variety of different reasons, some of which may have occurred in the past\nand some of which may occur in the future. Some of the reasons include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • If you lied during the naturalization process that\ngranted you your citizenship, you may have your naturalization revoked.\nNaturalized citizens are expected to be completely honest and transparent\nthroughout the interview and testing processes. Some of the most common things\nthat are lied about that lead to denaturalization include failing to tell the\ntruth about your identity, failing to disclose past criminal activity, and\nothers. If the government discovers that you lied at any point during your\nnaturalization process, even about something minor, they may choose to revoke\nyour citizenship. <\/li>
  • Naturalized citizens cannot refuse to testify\nbefore Congress for potential involvement in subversive acts. If you do not\ntestify in front of a United States congressional committee, your citizenship\nmay be revoked.<\/li>
  • If the United States government has found that\nyou joined a \u201csubversive organization\u201d within five years of your\nnaturalization, you may be denaturalized. Subversive organizations are those\nthat are considered to be threats to national security, and they include\nAl-Qaeda and the Nazi party. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The denaturalization process takes place in federal court,\nand you will be forced to leave the country. Additionally, if you have kids\nthat have received US citizenship due to your status, their citizenship will\nalso be at risk. Importantly, you do have the opportunity to appeal the\ndecision that the court made if you believe that legal errors were made. For\nexample, if you are being denaturalized due to the omission of facts on your\napplication but there is no evidence that you intentionally concealed anything,\nyou may have grounds for an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    If you or a loved one are concerned about felony charges or\nother convictions that might jeopardize your immigration status, choose an\nexperienced firm like the Law Office of Elizabeth Anu Lawrence to give you the\nhelp you need.  Please give us a call at\n443.352.3201. Skype and telephone consultation are both available to clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After you have obtained your US citizenship, you are generally able to maintain it for the rest of your life. However, in certain specific situations, the United States may choose to revoke your citizenship, or you might choose to give it up on your own. The denaturalization process involuntarily removes your US citizenship, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elawrencelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}