The occasion should have been marked by the joy of reaching the destination of US citizenship following the long odyssey of immigration. But Gail Breslow, executive director of Boston-based Project Citizenship – which had helped guide her citizenship application – said she was left devastated and distraught. “Our client hadn’t received USCIS’s written notification on time and turned up expecting to become a citizen,” Breslow said. “I invested years of relentless effort in this journey … I pursued the American dream in good faith, believing in this country as a land of opportunity. “Only certain cases can be denaturalized under the law, although this administration is trying to stretch the parameters of what that means.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2025 01:31 UTC