Denaturalization: Examining the Yemen Cases, 82 Fordham
L. Rev. 2099, n.72-74 and accompanying text (2014).
521. 22 C.F.R. § 51.42.
522. Anthony D. Bianco, Michael A. Celone & Sherease
Pratt, Defending Agency Immigration Fraud Adjudications,
in 65 U.S. Attorneys’ Bulletin (July 2017), at 102, https://
www.justice.gov/usao/page/file/984701/download.
523. 22 C.F.R. § 51.45.
524. Anthony D. Bianco, Michael A. Celone & Sherease
Pratt, Defending Agency Immigration Fraud Adjudications,
in 65 U.S. Attorneys’ Bulletin (July 2017), at 103, https://
www.justice.gov/usao/page/file/984701/download, (“[C]
ertificates of baptism are often based on baptism registries
which are recorded at the time fo the ceremony, are
official records of the church, maintained in a secure
located [sic], and which are not easily tampered. While a
person may fraudulently alter or create a certificate of
baptism, he or she would be less likely to fraudulently alter
a church’s registry to match the fraudulent certificate.”).
525. 22 C.F.R. § 51.42.
526. Id.
527. 22 C.F.R. § 51; Castelano et al. v. Clinton, 2d Amend.
Compl., para. 36, U.S. Dist. Ct. S.D. Tex., 08-cv-57.
528. Ramzi Kassem, Passport Revocation as Proxy
Denaturalization: Examining the Yemen Cases, 82 Fordham
L. Rev. 2099, 2100 (2014).
529. DOS-OIG, Review of Allegations of Improper Passport
Seizures at Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, OIG-ESP-19-01, at 1
(October 2018). See also Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report
on Coercive Interrogations and Due Process Violations in the
Confiscation or Revocation of Passports of American Citizens
of Yemeni Origin, Submission by civil society organizations
to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racism (July 11, 2014). The complaint to the OIG enclosed
a more recent version of the CERD shadow report,
Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report on Coercive Interrogations
and Due Process Violations in the Confiscation or Revocation
of Passports of American Citizens of Yemeni Origin, Asian
Americans Advancing Justice (the Asian Law Caucus) and
the City University of New York (CUNY) Creating Law
Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Project
(January 2016). Id. at 2 n.2.
530. Amel Ahmed, Yemeni Americans Cry Foul Over
Passport Revocations, Jan. 21 (cited in Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report on Coercive Interrogations and Due Process
Violations in the Confiscation or Revocation of Passports of
American Citizens of Yemeni Origin, Asian Americans
Advancing Justice (the Asian Law Caucus) and the City
University of New York (CUNY) Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Project (January
2016)).
Endnotes
531. See, e.g., Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report on Coercive
Interrogations and Due Process Violations in the Confiscation
or Revocation of Passports of American Citizens of Yemeni
Origin, Submission by civil society organizations to the
U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racism, 2 (July 11, 2014).
532. Department of State, Office of Inspector General
(DOS-OIG), Review of Allegations of Improper Passport
Seizures at Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, OIG-ESP-19-01, at 2
(October 2018) (noting also that in some cases other
documents including certificates of naturalization were
confiscated).
533. Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report on Coercive
Interrogations and Due Process Violations in the Confiscation
or Revocation of Passports of American Citizens of Yemeni
Origin, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (the Asian Law
Caucus) and the City University of New York (CUNY)
Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Project (January 2016), at 5.
534. Department of State, Office of Inspector General
(DOS-OIG), Review of Allegations of Improper Passport
Seizures at Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, OIG-ESP-19-01, at 2
(October 2018).
535. Stranded Abroad: Shadow Report on Coercive
Interrogations and Due Process Violations in the Confiscation
or Revocation of Passports of American Citizens of Yemeni
Origin, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (the Asian Law
Caucus) and the City University of New York (CUNY)
Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Project (January 2016).
536. DOS-OIG, Review of Allegations of Improper Passport
Seizures at Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, OIG-ESP-19-01, at
11-12 (October 2018).
537. See 8 U.S.C. § 1504(a) (revocation of a passport “shall
affect only the document and not the citizenship status of
the person in whose name the document was issued.”).
538. Ramzi Kassem, Passport Revocation as Proxy
Denaturalization: Examining the Yemen Cases, 82 Fordham
L. Rev. 2099, 2100 (2014).
539. 22 U.S.C. § 211a (Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) has
the authority “to issue, grant, and verify passports and to
establish rules concerning the issuance of passports.”). See
also 8 U.S.C. § 1504; 22 C.F.R. § 51.62(a)(2).
540. DOS-OIG, Review of Allegations of Improper Passport
Seizures at Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, OIG-ESP-19-01
(October 2018).
541. See, e.g., 22 C.F.R. § 51.62(i).
542. One of the OIG’s critiques is that the State Department has not adopted consistent policy as to the eligibility
for limited validity passports. DOS-OIG, Review of
Allegations of Improper Passport Seizures at Embassy in
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