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Requires terrorism-related attestation for naturalization, expands denaturalization, inadmissibility, deportation, benefit bars, and bans waivers for specified terrorism convictions.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require an attestation disavowing terrorist intent prior to naturalization of any alien.
Introduced April 16, 2026 by Riley M. Moore · Last progress April 16, 2026
The bill strengthens tools to deny entry, revoke citizenship, detain, and remove people tied to terrorism-related convictions—giving DHS/DOJ clearer enforcement authority and some procedural safeguards—while substantially expanding risks of denaturalization, detention, loss of relief, family separation, civil‑liberty intrusions, and litigation/costs.
Immigrants tied to terrorism-related convictions (and the public) gain a stronger, clearer ability for the government to denaturalize and remove those individuals, including use of civil findings and classified evidence to hold dangerous actors accountable.
Immigration officers, courts, and applicants get clearer statutory rules and timing (e.g., when new attestations apply, prospective application of conviction-based consequences, explicit visa/admission categories), reducing some legal uncertainty for enforcement and adjudication.
Naturalization and denaturalization processes include explicit procedural protections (clear-and-convincing standard, notice, opportunity to be heard, stays when criminal cases are pending), which help protect accused individuals' procedural rights.
Naturalized individuals (and some applicants) face a substantially increased risk of wrongful denaturalization or loss of citizenship because the bill creates presumptions that lower the government's burden, permits civil findings and non-final proceedings to support denaturalization, and allows classified/ex parte evidence.
People subject to revocation or covered convictions face immediate removal risk and expanded mandatory detention (including potential detention beyond normal removal periods and detention of potentially stateless persons), increasing deportations, family separations, and humanitarian risks.
The bill removes waiver and discretionary relief options (including asylum or cancellation) for covered grounds, meaning people with qualifying convictions cannot seek individualized mitigation or protection even when coercion, rehabilitation, or changed circumstances would warrant relief.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new criminal-terrorism-focused set of immigration bars and denaturalization tools: naturalization applicants must swear they haven’t been convicted of or intend to commit specified ‘‘covered’’ terrorism offenses; specified terrorism convictions or conduct can be used to revoke naturalization, trigger mandatory inadmissibility, prevent immigration benefits, and make revoked citizens removable. The bill adds new inadmissibility and deportability categories tied to ‘‘covered offenses,’’ limits waivers, requires DHS to update forms, and directs courts to cancel certificates when revocation is final.