The Supreme Court restricted the government’s right to deprive immigrants of citizenship

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The US Supreme Court restricted the government’s right to deprive immigrants of US citizenship for lying during the naturalization process.

The judges unanimously decided in favor of an ethnic Serbian from Bosnia who, during naturalization, lied about the military service of her husband, writes LA Times.

According to the court decision, false statements can lead to the abolition of citizenship only if they "played a certain role in naturalization."

The court did not support the position of the government that even a minor lie should become a reason for losing citizenship.

Divna Masleniak from Bosnia and her family received refugee status in 1999, and settled near Akron, Ohio, in 2000. In 2007, a woman became a US citizen.

At first, she told immigration officials that her husband did not serve in the Bosnian Serb armed forces. It was a lie, which she later admitted, and lower courts brought charges against her and automatically revoked her citizenship, Divna and her husband were deported in October 2016 of the year.

The Supreme Court has now returned the case to the US 6 Circuit Court of Appeal in Cincinnati to determine if Masleniac’s false statement affected the decision to grant her citizenship in any way.

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