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Châteauneuf-du-Pape

In gratitude, the Châteauneuf Winemakers Union pushed for his becoming an honorary citizen of the village.


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

Agnes Boulton

Her daughter, Oona O'Neill, married Charlie Chaplin in 1943 at the age of 18 (he was 54), and moved to Switzerland with him nine years later, renouncing her American citizenship.

Agostino Codazzi

Agustin Codazzi meanwhile took the Venezuelan citizenship from president José Antonio Páez and become Governor of Barinas, a region of southwestern Venezuela.

Ariel Seltzer

Beitar revealed that Seltzer's grandfather was Jewish and hoped that he would be able to gain Israeli citizenship via the Law of Return.

Asim Abdulrahman

In early November 2001, the Taliban government announced they were bestowing official Afghan citizenship on him, as well as Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Saif al-Adl and Mohammed Atef.

Assala Nasri

She was granted Bahraini citizenship by Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa a few days after she gave a performance in the operetta Love and Loyalty in celebration of Bahrain’s Independence Day.

Benjamin Boukpeti

Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, France to a French mother, he holds dual Togolese-French citizenship and chose to represent Togo, the country of his father, in Olympic competition.

Bonaventure Kalou

It was in this period that he talked his brother (who still played at Feyenoord) into acquiring Dutch citizenship, which eventually was rejected by Dutch Foreign Minister Rita Verdonk.

Certificate of Loss of Nationality

Citizens who receive a CLN surrender their United States passport and lose all rights of United States 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.

Emiliana de Zubeldia

After the Spanish Civil War, she took Mexican citizenship in 1942 and, in 1947, moved to Hermosillo, Sonora.

Expatriation Act

Expatriation Act of 1868, United States law reiterating right of renunciation of citizenship

Fabricio Poci

Fabricio Leonel Poci (born 10 April 1986 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentinian footballer with Italian citizenship who plays for A.O.Chania in the Greek Football League, as a midfielder.

Francis Obikwelu

Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Onitsha, Nigeria, who has obtained a Portuguese citizenship since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres.

Gad Horowitz

Horowitz teaches a class at the University of Toronto entitled "The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship" which revolves around general semantics, a non-Aristotelian educational discipline first theorized by Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized illegal alien protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying illegal aliens a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

Honorary citizenship of the town of Sciara, in Sicily, founded in 1670 by Filippo Notarbartolo (the grandfather of the great-grandfather of Giuseppe’s great-grandfather), received from the Mayor of Sciara on 12 December 1999.

Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield

His son Richard Banfield, born in Vienna in 1836 and educated in Austria, chose Austrian citizenship, became an officer of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine and took part in the Battle of Lissa as one of the commanders on Wilhelm von Tegetthoff's flagship, the Erzherzog Ferdinand Max.

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.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

On January 15, 2006, the World War II Veterans Committee (sponsors of the Memorial Day Parade in Washington D.C. and the National World War II Memorial, the newest monument on the National Mall), citing "her indomitable spirit, love of country, and the example of courage she has given her fellow Americans", awarded Toguri its annual Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte

It is speculated that Jérôme's prospective title is a reason the 11th Congress of the United States in 1810 proposed the Titles of Nobility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would strip an American of his citizenship if he accepted a title of nobility from a foreign nation.

Jhaniele Fowler

Her contract was contingent on the Thunderbirds' current import, fellow Jamaican shooter Carla Borrego, on gaining Australian citizenship, and allowing the team's import spot for Fowler.

Joe Piccininni

After the defeat former mayor, and then cabinet minister, David Crombie had Piccininni appointed as a federal Citizenship Court judge.

John Hansl

On April 8, 2005, a federal court working with evidence obtained by the Office of Special Investigations, revoked his American citizenship because of his service as a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Jonathan Santana

In June 2007, Santana received Paraguayan citizenship (his mother is a Paraguayan citizen born in San Ignacio, Misiones Department and Argentina did not recognize dual citizenship).

Jus soli

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship (although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries).

Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond received the Woodrow Wilson Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution for Corporate Citizenship during a dinner held in his honor in Dallas, Texas in early 2003.

Lithuania at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Her special request for citizenship was denied by President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lynton K. Caldwell

In 1947 he was appointed professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Max Pettini

He has worked in the UK ever since, apart from four years at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Epping, New South Wales from 1987 to 1991, and has British citizenship.

Mircea Lucescu

On 29 May 2009 Lucescu was granted the title "Honorary citizen of Donetsk" by the city council of Donetsk for "earning the UEFA Cup, development and popularization of the Ukrainian football, improvement of the Donetsk, Donetsk region and Ukraine authority in the world".

Moni Kumar Subba

In 2007, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court of India that Subba's nationality was in doubt, and that existing citizenship proofs were forged.

Nationality law of the Federated States of Micronesia

In 2004, Public Law 13-65 proposed to repeal Article III, Section 3 of the constitution, which as President Joseph Urusemal described it, "eliminates the constitutional barrier to dual citizenship", but would not actually permit dual citizenship unless Congress passed legislation defining cases in which dual citizenship would be permitted.

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.

Nola Randall-Mohk

Randall-Mohk was presented with the NSW Lifetime Achievement in Community Service Award by John Hatzistergos, Attorney General and Minister for Citizenship and Peter Primrose, Minister for Volunteering, acknowledging Nola's commitment to meeting the educational needs of disadvantaged adults and their access to suitable vocational opportunities.

Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices

The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which protects US citizens and certain other individual from discriminations based on their citizenship or immigration status.

Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa

A Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa is a type of Australian immigration visa granted on arrival in Australia to a non-citizen who is a permanent resident of Norfolk Island.

Pinel

Suzanne Pinel, CM is a Canadian children's entertainer and citizenship judge

Quintus Pleminius

The choice of exile to escape sentencing in a capital crime brought with it a loss of citizenship.

R. Muttusamy

Muttusamy was awarded an honorary Sri Lankan citizenship in June 1956 by prime minister Sir John Kotelawala.

Shahine Robinson

In November 2011, Robinson filed a challenge to the costs order in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was excessive; she particularly objected to the J$5 million paid to professor David P. Rowe for a legal opinion about her citizenship, arguing that the information could have been obtained at much lower cost from U.S. government sources.

Susan Evans McCloud

In 2004, McCloud was given the Reed Smoot Citizenship Awards business women of the year award.

Third National Government of New Zealand

Falema‘i Lesa, a Samoan born in Samoa prior to independence, wanted to claim New Zealand citizenship under the Citizenship Act 1977.

Timothy Peake

If successful, Peake would become the first Briton to fly into space without a private contract (Helen Sharman, Sarah Brightman) or American citizenship (Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick).

Tom Horne

Horne personally argued at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Arizona’s law that requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

Victor Dominello

Victor Michael Dominello MP (born 30 July 1967 in Ryde, New South Wales), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the Coalition state government.

Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya

In 1990, they left the URSS for Sweden, where Prof. Maz'ya obtained the Swedish citizenship and started to work at Linköping University.


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