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...Ghaida had no citizenship until she moved to Austria. Born in Syria, she possessed only a Laisser-Passer, which identified her as a Palestinian living in Syria. When she moved to Vienna, however, she obtained Austrian citizenship...
...special relationships" with half a dozen or so countries. Near the top of the list are Israel and Japan. The U.S. was instrumental in the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, and almost 6 million American Jews $ could be automatically entitled to citizenship there. The case of Japan is more ambiguous but no less special. The U.S. used A-bombs to finish off a militaristic empire, then helped rebuild what has become an economic superpower...
Lwin signed up for six years with the reserves in 1988, about the time he applied for U.S. citizenship. But the violence of drills clashed with the peaceful approach to life advocated by his Buddhist religion...
Lwin is scheduled for a hearing today, and he risks more than just prison time. He can't become a U.S. citizen if he's court-martialed for desertion, and the charges have already delayed his application for citizenship, he said...
Mullin, who served as executive editor of The Crimson in 1989, had been receiving treatment at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, England for three-and-a-half weeks. She had been in England for several months, attempting to attain citizenship so that she could be placed on a waiting list for a heart-lung transplant...