191. Form N-400, Application for Naturalization 14
(2016), https://www.uscis.gov/n-400 (emphasis in
original). The provision does not qualify whether the
crime to be reported is a crime under U.S. law, or a crime
under any jurisdiction, which would implicate, for
example, laws against political speech or gender-bias laws.
The question also does not account for cultural differences
and customs under which something not considered
illegal in a foreign jurisdiction might be considered
criminal in the United States—for example, polygamy or
legal drinking age.
192. United States v. Oribello Eguilos, 2019 WL 1643234, at
*1 (E.D. Cal. Apr. 16, 2019) (internal citations omitted).
193. Cong. Red. Vol. 107, pt. 4, at 18283 (1961).
194. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.2 § (B)(1), Grounds for
Revocation, available at https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2 (citing INA § 340(a)).
195. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.2 § (B)(1), Grounds for
Revocation, available at https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2 (citing INA § 340(a)).
196. See 8 U.S.C. § 1429.
197. See 8 U.S.C. § 1429.
198. See ILRC, at 5 (citing U.S. v. Kaur, 2014 WL 285077
(E.D. Pa. 2014) (revoking naturalization where the court
concluded that derivative asylum status and adjustment
were not lawfully obtained for a derivative asylee when
principal’s asylum grant was not valid); Turfah v. USCIS,
845 F.3d 668 (6th Cir. 2017) (not permitting citizenship
where individual received his legal permanent resident
status by mistake by the government, even though the
individual did not commit any fraud in obtaining his
status)).
199. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.3, Continuous Residence,
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-dchapter-3.
200. USCIS, Continuous Residence and Physical Presence
Requirements for Naturalization (Apr. 17, 2019), https://www.
uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-naturalization/continuous-residence-and-physical-presence-requirements-naturalization.
201. There are some exceptions to the physical presence
requirement, such as for those applicants working abroad for
the U.S. government. See Section 316 paragraphs (b), (c), and
(f ).
202. See INA § 101(f ).
203. Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §1101(f )(1)
(1952), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101.
204. Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Immigration Law
& The Criminal Client, Chapter 4 Good Moral Character, at 2,
https://cliniclegal.org/sites/default/files/cerra/March-16-
Endnotes
Workshops/Good-Moral-Character-and-Naturalization/
Good-Moral-Character-Chapter-CLINIC-Crimes-Manual.
pdf.
205. Id. at 3.
206. See INA § 101(a)(43). See Illegal Immigration Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), Pub. L.
104-208, 110 Stat. 3009-546 (September 30, 1996).
207. INA § 101(a)(43)(P).
208. INA § 101(a)(43)(T).
209. 12 USCIS, Policy Manual, Part F, Good Moral
Character, Chapter 5 – Conditional Bars for Acts in Statutory
Period (June 6, 2019), https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/
volume-12-part-f-chapter-5#footnotelink-5.
210. USCIS summarizes that “[w]hether an offense is a
CIMT is largely based on whether the offense involves willful
conduct that is morally reprehensible and intrinsically
wrong, the essence of which is a reckless, evil or malicious
intent.” Id.
211. See USCIS, Policy Alert (Apr. 19, 2019), https://www.
uscis.gov/sites/default/files/policymanual/updates/20190419-ControlledSubstanceViolations.pdf.
212. USCIS, supra note 210.
213. See INA § 316(a); 8 CFR 316.11.
214. 12 USCIS, Policy Manual Part D, General Naturalization Requirements, Chapter 7 - Attachment to the Constitution,
(June 6, 2019), available at https://www.uscis.gov/
policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter-7. See generally
Aram A. Gavoor and Daniel Miktus, Snap: How the Moral
Elasticity of the Denaturalization Statute Goes Too Far, 23 Wm.
& Mary Bill Rts. J. 637, 640 (2015) (calling for elimination of
attachment requirement as unconstitutional).
215. 12 USCIS, Policy Manual Part D, General Naturalization Requirements, Chapter 7 - Attachment to the Constitution
(June 6, 2019), https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/
volume-12-part-d-chapter-7.
216. Id.
217. Comment, Denaturalization of Nazi War Criminals: Is
There Sufficient Justice for Those Who Would Not Dispense
Justice, 40 Md. L. Rev. 39, 54-55 (1981).
218. See Fedorenko v. United States, 1010 S. Ct. 737 (1981);
Comment, Denaturalization of Nazi War Criminals: Is There
Sufficient Justice for Those Who Would Not Dispense Justice, 40
Md. L. Rev. 39, 85 (1981) (“In the 1952 version of the
[Immigration and Naturalization] Act, Congress deleted the
ground of illegal procurement, thereby placing a uniform
requirement that the Government must prove intent to be
triumphant in a denaturalization case. In apparent reaction
to the Court’s imposition of a heavy burden of proof,
Congress in 1961 once again included the ground of illegal
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