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Eight people have been so honored, six posthumously, and two, Sir Winston Churchill and Saint Teresa of Calcutta, during their lifetimes. For Lafayette and Mother Teresa, the honor was proclaimed directly by an Act of Congress. In the other cases, an Act of Congress was passed authorizing the President to grant honorary citizenship by proclamation.
She naturalized as a U.S. citizen after marrying an American and living in the U.S., but returned to Taiwan in the 1970s. In 2009, President Ma Ying-jeou invited her to take up a policy advisor position in his government, which required her to give up U.S. citizenship. [88] 1970 s 2009: Q4 2009: David Chu: Politician Naturalized
This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
The first modern Native pan-tribal organization, the Society of American Indians, formed in 1911 by young boarding school graduates, put citizenship at the top of its agenda. This was followed by ...
The main birthright citizenship case is from 1898, when the Supreme Court ruled that the son of lawful immigrants from China was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in 1873 in San Francisco.
Hope Namgyal, née Cooke, who renounced her citizenship on March 25, 1963, after marrying the Crown Prince of Sikkim, [10] later returned to the U.S. and requested restoration of her citizenship by private bill after her husband was deposed. Because of Congressional objections to restoring the citizenship, she was granted a green card ...
USC President Carol Folt gave posthumous honorary degrees to Japanese American students who were removed from the West Coast during World War II. ... more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent ...
Honorary Canadian citizenship requires unanimous approval in both houses of Parliament.The only people to ever receive honorary Canadian citizenship are Raoul Wallenberg posthumously in 1985; Nelson Mandela in 2001; the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in 2006; Aung San Suu Kyi in 2007 (revoked in 2018); Prince Karim Aga Khan in 2009; and Malala Yousafzai in 2014.