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The process of becoming a naturalized citizen and its implications for membership in Congress.
A small but persistent minority of members of Congress were born outside the present-day United States; counts vary by methodology but recent authoritative tallies show a handful of naturalized lawmak...
An intercountry adoptee should first determine whether U.S. citizenship was automatically acquired under the Child Citizenship Act or other statutes and then secure documentary proof — most commonly a...
the primary sources supplied identify foreign‑born senators in general and discuss constitutional rules and a few modern examples, but none delivers a complete, dated list of which foreign‑born senato...
A derivative citizen seeking to document and prove citizenship must first identify which statutory path and time period govern their claim, then assemble documentary proof of the parent–child relation...
The authority to define and regulate rests with under Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, a power long has treated as exclusive of the states; that federal power produced statutes like the that now govern...
A person born in the United States cannot be deported for felony convictions — U.S.-born citizenship is legally protected against removal . By contrast, foreign-born naturalized citizens can, in excep...