naturalization
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5578 | Sinisa Djurdjic v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bosnian-war due-process immigration-fraud naturalization refugee-status state-actor | Whether the Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS) was a state actor in the Bosnian War and whether Mr. Djurdjic's alleged omission of uniformed service con… |
| 25-5040 | Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance | Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) deny a naturalization application based on a modified oath of allegiance due to con… |
| 24-6316 | Antonio Ulises Barrera-Mackorty v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law due-process immigration-law naturalization statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Is Question No. 15 on the naturalization application (N-400), when considered in conjunction with 18 U.S.C. § 1425, void for vagueness and thus a viol… |
| 24A444 | Antonio Ulises Barrera-Mackorty v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure federal-statute immigration-law naturalization supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1425(a) and the Naturalization Application Form N-400 are unconstitutionally vague in their application to immigrant criminal proc… | |
| 22-6250 | Matthew James Dury v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency | Whether a foreign-born defendant can be ordered to violate U.S. laws |
| 21-823 | Abdulla Nagi Naser Daifullah v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | citizenship-revocation civil-procedure congressional-power denaturalization due-process good-cause-affidavit jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement naturalization naturalization-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)'s requirement that the United States Attorney for the respective district institute proceedings is a jurisdictional require… |
| 20-5847 | John James Hartz v. Washington Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizenship civil-rights due-process immigration naturalization standing | Whether the constitutional and statutory laws governing naturalization and citizenship apply to the petitioner |
| 19-8661 | Justo Jonah Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution immigration immigration-law naturalization sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | Whether the immigration officer's handwritten notes and checkmarks on a naturalization application are 'testimonial' and subject to the Sixth Amendmen… |
| 18-8628 | Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of his claim of nationality and citizenship under the 14th Amendment, resul… |
| 18-6590 | Salah Mohamed v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion aggravating-factor due-process escape flight-risk immigration naturalization naturalized-defendant sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Does a court abuse its discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing a naturalized defendant more than three times above his … |
| 18-6187 | Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship | Did the appeals court err in affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization |
| 18-5170 | Ijaz Khan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation | Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized? |