"New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices to "supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month" next year, according to The New York Times. Denaturalization is extremely rare. Per the Times, Justice Department figures say that only about 120 denaturalization cases had been filed since 2017, in sharp contrast to the potentially thousands of cases the administration is seeking to file in just one year."
"According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, only 11 denaturalization cases were opened per year on average between 1990 and 2017; there was an uptick during the first Trump administration of about 25 cases a year, but nowhere near their current stated goal. Experts have noted that the Trump administration's guidance will be extremely hard, if not impossible, to carry out through typical legal pathways. Only federal courts can strip away citizenship, and the threshold for denaturalization is high, happening primarily in cases where the government alleges citizenship was obtained fraudulently."
Guidance directs USCIS field offices to supply the Office of Immigration Litigation with 100–200 denaturalization cases per month for fiscal year 2026, aiming to remove citizenship from over a thousand naturalized Americans. Denaturalization filings have been rare historically: Justice Department records show about 120 cases filed since 2017 and an average of 11 cases per year from 1990–2017, with an uptick to roughly 25 per year during the first Trump administration. Only federal courts can revoke citizenship, and denaturalization requires a high legal threshold, generally limited to alleged fraudulent naturalization. Legal experts say meeting the quota will be extremely difficult.
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