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Office of Immigration Litigation

Office of the United States Department of Justice

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Dec 21, 2025

Is it fair to assume Trump's denateulization attempts are going to fail? They keep escalating but it doesn't seem that escalation is equalling success

The administration has ordered a dramatic ramp‑up — asking USCIS field offices to feed the Justice Department 100–200 denaturalization referrals per month — but legal limits, historical rarity, workfo...

Feb 1, 2026

What distinctions do federal agencies (DHS, USCIS, DOJ) make between 'alien' and 'unauthorized immigrant'?

The federal term "alien" is a statutory label meaning any person who is not a U.S. citizen or national, a definition found in Title 8 of the and used across ">immigration statutes and agency materials...

Jan 31, 2026

How does U.S. denaturalization law work and how often has it been used against public figures?

law is the judicial revocation of naturalized citizenship, permitted when citizenship was allegedly procured by fraud or when an individual is subject to narrow statutory grounds like wartime conduct ...

Jan 21, 2026

What legal defenses have successfully stopped denaturalization suits in federal court since Maslenjak v. United States?

Since the most potent, court-tested defenses in federal denaturalization litigation have been the Supreme Court’s materiality/causation requirement announced in Maslenjak, the “qualification-for-citiz...