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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
This bill strengthens national-security-focused grounds and tools to bar, denaturalize, and remove people tied to terrorism-related offenses and clarifies enforcement authority, but does so by expanding detention and removal, narrowing discretionary relief, lowering evidentiary and timing protections in practice, and raising substantial risk of harsh or wrongful consequences for immigrants and their families.
Noncitizens convicted of terrorism-related 'covered offenses' and those whose naturalization is revoked can be denied entry, stripped of naturalization, and removed more readily, reducing the risk that violent or extremist actors gain or retain U.S. citizenship or reenter the country.
The bill clarifies statutory authority and procedures for DHS, DOJ, and federal courts (e.g., timing of applicability, removal after revocation, and clear remedies after final revocation), reducing legal uncertainty for enforcement agencies and courts.
Denaturalization actions must meet procedural safeguards (clear-and-convincing standard, notice, opportunity to be heard, court stays if criminal case pending), which preserves important procedural protections for accused individuals.
Naturalized citizens face a substantially increased risk of denaturalization because the bill lowers practical burdens on the government (prima facie and rebuttable presumptions, use of civil findings or non‑final proceedings, classified evidence reviewed ex parte, and elimination of a statute of limitations), raising the chance of wrongful loss of citizenship.
The bill removes discretionary relief and waivers for covered offenses and imposes permanent bars to admission and reentry, increasing the likelihood of deportation, long‑term family separation, and inflexible, harsh outcomes for impacted immigrants and relatives.
Mandatory and expanded detention for covered offenders (including potential prolonged detention and detention of stateless persons) will increase detention use and costs and can impose severe hardships on detained individuals.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Adds terrorism convictions/membership as grounds to deny naturalization, revoke citizenship, bar admission, strip immigration benefits, and make denaturalized persons deportable; adds a sworn attestation to N-400.
Creates new immigration and naturalization rules that treat terrorism-related convictions, memberships, or civil findings as grounds to deny naturalization, revoke citizenship, make noncitizens inadmissible, and place them in mandatory removal/detention. Requires a sworn attestation on naturalization applications denying past convictions or intent to commit listed terrorism offenses and expands grounds for revocation, inadmissibility, loss of immigration benefits, and deportability tied to those "covered offenses."