The Trump administration is dramatically escalating efforts to pursue denaturalization of naturalized U.S. citizens, directing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices to refer an unprecedented number of cases to the Department of Justice next fiscal year.
Internal guidance obtained by The New York Times directs USCIS to send 100 to 200 denaturalization cases per month to the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation in fiscal 2026, a goal that could result in more than 1,000 denaturalization actions in a single year, far surpassing recent historical totals.
Denaturalization, the legal process by which the government revokes citizenship from naturalized Americans, has traditionally been rare.
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