I heard a naturalized citizen can lose their citizenship if convicted of domestic violence. Is this true?

Question

I live in Colorado. I was told this by a Chicana married to a Mexican immigrant. She says that if an immigrant who is already a naturalized citizen is convicted of domestic violence, he can have his citizenship revoked. It seems to me this is a Federal level, and a violation of citizen's rights to revoke for anything less than spionage and/or treason. What do you know?

Answer 1

The answer is you can lose your status. A permanet resident (not a citizen) can lose their opportunity to stay here(America) if they break a variety of laws. There are 15 violations listed of the paperwork... A simple DUI IS GROUNDS, not being able to support yourself......It's a very interesting ambigous law....

Answer 2

Not that I'm an expert, but it seems to me that once citizenship has been conferred, you're a citizen, and as such can't be revoked for domestic violence ... now I do know that if you're a legal resident, i.e. has a green card, that can be revoked, no probs!

Answer 3

A naturalized citizen CAN lose his citizenship; it's a rare occurence, but it does happen - and it happens far more frequently now, with people who obtained their immigrant benefits or citizenship by fraud. Being convicted of a crime does not endanger citizenship unless it falls within the guidelines of this reference:
http://www.newcitizen.us/losing.html

Answer 4

I think it's gonna end up like this: If you would get penalized for it as a normal citizen, you're going to have TWICE the fun in court as a new 'citizen'. If your first act on trying to become an american citizen is to then flaunt your newfound citizenship by becoming a new addition to our jail system, you can go sit in jail back where you came from. Too many people are trying to 'entitle' themselves into the United States, and it has to slow down/stop. I hope they hurry up, and get the border fence finished...

Answer 5

I believe only federal violations qualify for possible revocation of one's citizenship(naturalized). There have been famous "rock" stars who have had their naturalized citizenships revoked and have been deported for "drug" related charges and felony tax evasions. Perhaps we should make domestic violence a federal offense and then we could rid ourselves of a few more criminals. Having said that, legal "residents" beware-your green cards are a priviledge that can be revoked for a host of reasons including "moral" related crimes ie: domestic violence, child abuse-molestation, rape, etc. (of course, I think any crime against a child or any crime of rape should bring about immediate execution!!!!!!)

Answer 6

Once you have obtained citizenship you can never lose it. If you are a resident, then yes you can lose your status....