A federal court issued a ruling on Friday, December 7, 2018, that halts a Trump administration policy that blocked hundreds of lawful permanent residents from serving in the U.S. Lawful permanent resident or green card holders can enlist and serve in the U.S.

Military, and can apply for naturalization or U.S. Citizenship through their military service. Judge held that the Department of Defense likely violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act after it implemented a policy discrimi nating against lawful permanent resident enlistees. Judge's ruling finds that the Defense Department provided no rational justification for the policy change, stating that it provided no evidence indicating that lawful permanent resident enlistees posed more of a risk than U.S.

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Please note that in October 2017, the Department of Defense issued new policies that impact lawful permanent residents and other non-U.S. Citizens in the military.

The ILRC's discusses how these policies affect those who seek to enlist, and those who currently serve in the military, including in the Reserve Components. The DoD policy changes will not affect MAVNI enlistees because the MAVNI program was suspended in October 2016.

No one has been able to enlist in MAVNI since that time. Before making a decision to enlist and to apply for naturalization, please review the (dated 03/2018 - will be revised soon) and consider that under new rules 'expedited' naturalization may not be much faster than a naturalization under a default rule.

The USCIS plans to establish an office in Los Angeles, California to focus on denaturalization. The office will take away U.S. Citizenship from certain naturalized American citizens. USCIS will look for cases where it believes a person obtained U.S. Citizenship by error, fraud, mistake, using false name or identity - and will refer potential denaturalization cases to the US Department of Justice. The USCIS couldn't assure compliance with the law because old paper-based records containing fingerprint information from the FBI and DHS can’t be searched electronically. All old paper-only records need to be digitized bfore they can be searched electronically.

In 2008, USCIS identified 206 people who used different names or other biographical information to gain US citizenship or other immigration benefits. This was possible because ICE did not consistently add digital fingerprint records of immigrants whom agents encountered until 2010. On September 18, 2016, the DHS Office of the Inspector General issued a report entitled. The report found that that ' USCIS granted U.S. Citizenship to at least 858 individuals ordered deported or removed under another identity when, during the naturalization process, their digital fingerprint records were not available.'