X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Naturalization


Andrew Ducarel

In 1734, while still undergraduates, he and his brother were naturalized.

Charles N'Tchoréré

Charles N'Tchoréré (15 November 1896 - 7 June 1940) was a French (naturalized in 1940) military commander who was shot by Germans in World War II.

Hagbard Celine

A former naturalized United States citizen, Hagbard supposedly relinquished his citizenship after representing a Mohawk reservation in court against the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Inanam

A considerable number of them however were controversially naturalised and relocated into low-cost housing settlements provided by the Malaysian government.

Philippines–Russia relations

Peter Dobell became a naturalized citizen and took the name Petr Vasilievich Dobel and was appointed as the Consul General in the Philippines.

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar

After being naturalised as a British subject, Edward's military career began on 1 June 1841, when, having trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he joined the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot as an ensign.

Uchi-soto

Naturalization does not guarantee inclusion in Japanese society; one must win the consent of the society at large.


Alexander Merkel

Merkel noted that naturalization should not be a problem, considering that an American-born Jon Robert Holden played for the Russia national basketball team.

Alexander Tettey

Tettey is now a naturalized Norwegian and has been capped for the Norwegian under-18, 19 and 21 national teams, and he made his first appearance on the Norwegian national team in their 2–1 win against Argentina on 22 August 2007.

Anapu

Anapu attracted international attention on February 12, 2005, when the American-born, naturalized Brazilian citizen Sister Dorothy Stang—member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and advocate for the rural poor of the Amazon Rainforest—was murdered there.

Cacau

Since his naturalization as a German citizen in early 2009, his nickname at VfB (and later also at the Germany national football team) is "Helmut".

Dave Komonen

On May 5, 1934, five years to the day from Komonen's arrival in Canada, he filed naturalization papers, aiming to compete in the 1934 British Empire Games in London.

Expatriation Act of 1907

The Expatriation Act of 1907 had been repealed for nearly a decade by that point, but the case concerned a woman who married an Italian man on December 26, 1940 (after the passage of the Nationality Act of 1940, but before its effective date) and then applied for naturalization as an Italian citizen, all while still living in the United States.

Gardenia latifolia

It is found in the forests of Madhya Pradesh in India, and has been widely cultivated elsewhere, to the point of naturalization, especially in Nigeria, West Africa where the tree is highly valued for both its fruit and shade.

GI Jesús

Starring Joe Arquette as "Jesús" and Patricia Mota as "Claudia", Jesús is a Mexican national who joins the U.S. Army to receive naturalization in the United States, and returns to the US having suffered trauma while serving in Iraq.

György Frunda

He notably met with Premier Aigars Kalvītis, and gave a positive assessment of the way in which Latvia had carried out its obligations, while pointing out that Russian Latvians still faced some problems in naturalization and voting rights.

Harold von Mickwitz

On October 22, 1902, von Mickwitz became a naturalized U.S. citizen during a ceremony in Federal Court in Sherman, Texas.

How to be an Alien

The second part, "How to be a Particular Alien", describes particular occupations from Bloomsbury intellectual to bus driver, finishing with how to be a naturalised citizen, which includes the eating of porridge for breakfast, and alleging that you like it.

Immigration and Naturalization Service

The 2000 documentary film Well-Founded Fear, from filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini marked the first time that a film-crew was privy to the private proceedings at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), where individual asylum officers ponder the often life-or-death fate of the majority of immigrants seeking asylum.

Jean-Damascène Bizimana

In 2010 researcher David L. Bosco discovered that Bizimana and his family had settled in Opelika, Alabama, where he had become a naturalized citizen and taken a job as a quality-control manager for a plastic products manufacturer.

John L. Burnett

He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

John R. Hazel

In 1909, Judge Hazel issued an order cancelling the naturalization of Jacob A. Kersner, at the request of the U.S. Attorney's office, and thus stripping the citizenship of his ex-wife, the Anarchist orator Emma Goldman, who had gained U.S. citizenship in 1887 by her marriage to Kersner.

Jon R. Cavaiani

Though initially classified 4F, due in part to a severe allergy to bee stings, Cavaiani joined the Army from Fresno, California, shortly before becoming a naturalized citizen in 1968.

Moroccan nationality law

For exceptional cases (article 12) it is given by a Dahir (royal decree) for people who are considered as having performed an exceptional service for Morocco or whose naturalization is considered exceptionally beneficial for the country.

Murad Hüseynov

In December 2010, he has received his first call up to Azerbaijan after impressing Berti Vogts and has been naturalised as citizen of Azerbaijan from Russian citizenship.

Naturalization Act of 1906

The Roosevelt administration assembled a commission to examine the naturalization laws of the time, and to make recommendations on how to avoid the abuses that led to inappropriate granting of citizenship.

Thomas J. Michie

In 1963, Judge Michie began the tradition of conducting naturalization ceremonies at Monticello on Independence Day.


see also