The US government is launching a large-scale legal process against individuals alleged to have obtained citizenship through illegal means or false information as part of a broader effort to tighten migration policy.
Operative Information Center-OMM reports that this development has been widely covered by international media outlets.
It has been reported that the US Department of Justice plans to file lawsuits to revoke at least 250 citizenships before the end of the current fiscal year in October. The Department is preparing to initiate extensive legal proceedings in federal courts across the country to strip citizenship status from individuals found to have provided false information or committed legal violations during their naturalization applications.
While dozens of such cases have already been filed in recent weeks, the planned 250 lawsuits represent a small fraction of the approximately 24 million naturalized citizens in the United States. Nevertheless, this figure marks a sharp increase compared to previous periods. For context, between 1990 and 2017, the US government filed an average of only 11 citizenship revocation cases per year.
Federal law grants the Department of Justice the authority to revoke citizenship if fraud or other legal violations are discovered during the naturalization process. However, this complex and lengthy legal procedure, which requires a federal judge's ruling, was primarily reserved for individuals who committed gross human rights violations or serious crimes under previous administrations.
Under the new policy adopted by the administration of US President Donald Trump, the scope of priority cases and categories for citizenship revocation has been expanded. This shift has transformed the process into a more rigorous and extensive campaign, signaling a stricter approach to immigration enforcement and the integrity of the naturalization process in the United States.
