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I thought an executive decision is all it's needed but apparently not. Interestingly, there is a special law to expedite naturalization for those who "made an
by rdtsc 10y ago
I thought an executive decision is all it's needed but apparently not.
Interestingly, there is a special law to expedite naturalization for those who "made an extraordinary contribution to the national security of the United States or to the conduct of United States intelligence activities". But even there it's a 5 person per year maximum.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE-2011-title8-chap12-subchapIII-partII-sec1427.htm https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE...
Congress can change the laws obviously, wonder what the turnaround there could be.
- khuey 10y agoThat provision is presumably for "this guy told us where to find Bin Laden/Edward Snowden/Satoshi Nakamoto" level activities.
- rdtsc 10y agoI was wondering why they need a quick citizenship and why a green card wouldn't be sufficient. Guessing could be in case of defectors maybe their original country would revoke their citizenship or at least their passport. So they might be left for years in kind of a limbo.
- rcthompson 10y agoThat sounds like a law written decades ago as a lure for high-value defectors from the USSR during the Cold War.
- jacquesm 10y agoMore likely: those brought over from Nazi Germany to help with rocketry.