it ain't over until it's over

[Lorenzo 0]

I seem to remember reading an article by an immigration attorney saying that you should not expect to be through with immigration even when you obtain your US citizenship. I thought it was an interesting article and was hoping he was incorrect. My wife received her naturalization last July, but her son is still a citizen of Ukraine. He is 19 now so this is his choice.

Do any of you have a reference to the article? Wish I would have bookmarked it.

[a&o 4]

There was a story on 60 Minutes about a woman who had gained citizenship via marriage, but it was found out much later to be a sham marriage, and she had her citizenship revoked because of that, it seems. (The story was about something bigger, but that was part of it.)

So, I guess it's not set in stone!

[Udella&Wiz 325]

I saw the piece on 60 minutes as well. It has been mentioned here before that if for some reason USCIS finds out that you lied at some point during the immigration process, they do have the right to 'de-naturalize ' you. If you haven't lied, I doubt you'll ever hear from immigration again.

[jimnlena 8]

http://www.newcitizen.us/losing.html

Some reasons citizship could be revoked

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

I noticed this: if you lied during the naturalization process, a Federal Judge can revoke your citizenship. Yet if somebody lied during their GC process, the time limit is 5 years. So if you become a USC after 5 years, your "mistakes" as a LPR have timed out.

Losing one's citizenship is so rare, it's almost non-existent. If you become a terrorist working against the US, you have probably other problems than keeping your US citizenship, would be my guess. But about 2 years ago, there was this case of a 92 year-old woman from Northern California, who, as they found out, worked as a prison guard in Germany during the time of the Nazi regime (which means all prison guards worked in Nazi prisons by default). She was stripped of her US citizenship and deported. She died a few weeks later.

[NickD 202]

Certainly a huge difference between being born or naturalized here, U.S. War Veterans Fight Deportation and that other bit about being forced to have a dual nationality with your place of birth in large print on your US passport. Does put a naturalized citizen in an iffy position.

Read elsewhere on the web where some odd 4,000 naturalized citizens are facing deportation, but can't find the link now. Mostly due to withholding information on their N-400 or lying, whichever you prefer. As a naturalized citizen, you have to be extra good, course, also have to be good as a born citizen unless you like living in jail. Or can find yourself walking if you exceed the speed limit by 20 mph, and easy to do if leaving a ten mile long one block wide Wisconsin town with a 25 mph limit and see a 55 mph sign ahead, and start to speed up before passing that sign. We are a country of laws. And you better damn well pay your taxes.

[ding 1]

A co-worker has a wife from England. She'd been here over 12 years IIRC, teenage kid together, working. But a couple years after 9-11 she found a notice to appear in the mail. She had to provide records she had thrown away of something... I think a birth certificate had been lost???

Anyway, it was a big hassle, time lost from work, almost lost job, family in England lost time too digging for docs. His wife was not deported in the end.