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unusual facts about U.S. citizenship



Alan Silva

At the very height of racial segregation in the United States, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S. citizenship by the age of 18 or 19.

Hazem Salah Abu Ismail

On 4 April 2012, the New York Times reported that according to Californian government documents Abu Ismail's deceased mother held U.S. citizenship, which would make him ineligible for the presidency under the Egyptian constitution.

Marion Schultz

Schultz was a Russian-born American citizen who worked as a mechanic in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was the Chair of the United Russian Committee for Aid to the Native Country (Russian War Relief) and Slavic organizations.

Naftali Bennett

Following his election to the Knesset, Bennett had to renounce his U.S. citizenship, which he had acquired through his parents.


see also

511 Building

511 Federal Building, former federal post office that currently houses Department of Homeland Security offices for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Portland, Oregon

Ben Corday

While his obituary listed Singapore as his place of birth, a report of his U.S. citizenship application stated that Corday was born in Lucknow, India.

Delroy Allen

Tulsa head coach Charlie Mitchell offered Allen a contract contingent on him gaining his U.S. citizenship.

Diane Lee

Lee's lawyer Lee Yung-jan argued that this supported Lee's earlier statement that she had automatically lost U.S. citizenship upon taking office, and that her subsequent conduct such as travelling to the U.S. on a Republic of China passport instead of a United States passport confirmed her intention to lose citizenship.

Gene Olaff

He joined the U.S. National Guard in order to gain his U.S. citizenship and married Irene MacGregor.

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.

Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief

After learning of Mohammed's role in Lynch's rescue, Friends of Mohammed, a group based in Malden, West Virginia, was formed to fight for Mohammed's U.S. citizenship and to bring him to West Virginia.

Shahine Robinson

However, the following year, she handed back her U.S. passport at an Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Key Biscayne, Florida in advance of the Jamaican general election, 2007, stating that she believed this constituted renunciation of U.S. citizenship.

Taragarh Talawa

Bhagat Singh Thind, PhD, (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian-American Sikh writer and lecturer on spirituality who initiated an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship: United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind.