An overview of the rights of a united states citizen

M rev. Darnell discovered that a year-old conviction for domestic violence involving a former girlfriend, even though it had been reduced to a misdemeanor and erased from his public record, made him ineligible to become a citizen—or even to continue living in the United States. Otis Secretary of the Senate.

For example, there have been requirements that applicants have been permanent residents for five years three if married to a U.

Reasons for Denial of U. Children under 15 shall not be recruited into the armed forces. No one can be punished without due process of law.

Mozumdar was the first person born in the Indian sub-continent to attain U.