denaturalization

American  

[dee-nach-er-uhl-uhz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-ay-shuhn] / diˌnætʃ ər əl əzˈeɪ ʃən, -aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

denaturalizations

1. the act or process of denaturalizing, especially the revocation of citizenship for naturalized citizens.

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Example Sentences

Mercifully, the Supreme Court may be cognizant of both the incomprehensibility of immigration paperwork and the weighty consequences of denaturalization and green card rescission.

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United States, the court refused to sustain a fraud-based denaturalization charge based on the applicant’s failure to disclose his Communist Party membership on his citizenship application because the question at issue “was not sufficiently clear.”

From Slate

The government can attempt either a civil or criminal denaturalization, with the latter alleging that the naturalization itself was obtained through criminal means.

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That is to say, a denaturalization can move forward only if the government can establish to the satisfaction of a federal judge that there are ex ante facts that would have clearly made the person directly ineligible for citizenship in the first place.

From Slate

Yet, as concerning as these developments are, actually going through with a denaturalization is a complicated and legally fraught process.

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