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Practice Alert: Protecting the Materiality Requirement in False Citizenship Claim Cases Outside the Eleventh Circuit

This Practice Alert addresses Patel ’s second holding: that false claims to U.S. citizenship render noncitizens removable even if the claim had no possible impact on the decision or application at issue—that is, even if the false citizenship claim is immaterial.

National Immigration Project Practice advisory Nov 20, 2020 Direct PDF available

Why it matters

Useful as a practitioner-oriented overview from National Immigration Project on Naturalization; review the source material for the most current authority and procedure.

Topics

Naturalization

Workflows

BIA, PFR, and federal court Naturalization and adjustment

Forums

Court of appeals

Jurisdictions

11th Circuit