citizenship papers

plural noun

1. a certificate of citizenship, as one issued to a U.S. citizen born abroad.
2. (loosely) a certificate of naturalization conferring citizenship on a resident alien.

Example Sentences

What if the creature with the untidy beard carries in his bosom his citizenship papers?

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Great Britain and her allies are allowed without protest to disregard American citizenship papers and passports.

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It must be so; he aint got no citizenship papers; if he has, they aint bona fidy.

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A series of years must pass before an immigrant can obtain his citizenship papers; nobody is forced to become a citizen.

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The foreigner who takes out his citizenship papers does it mainly to vote.

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