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

Practice Advisory
Issue area
Removal Defense
Crimes/Post-Conviction Relief
Audience
Attorney
Published: November 20, 2020

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.