citizenship status
Legal residency designation
Citizenship status is a person's legal relationship to a country—whether citizen, permanent resident, visa holder, undocumented, or stateless.
The term appears frequently in legal, employment, and immigration contexts: The form asks about your citizenship status.
Discrimination based on citizenship status is prohibited in many employment situations.
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- denizenOne who inhabits
- stateless personPerson without recognized citizenship
- asylum seekerOne requesting official protection
- tax obligationsRequired payments to government
deportation · military service · refugee · freedom of movement · social benefits · anchor baby · undocumented immigrant · visa overstay · border crossing · permanent resident · legal resident · jury duty · expatriate · education rights · asylum application · national identity · refugee resettlement · green card
- citizenshipnationality, passport, birthright, denaturalization, renunciation
- immigrant educationrefugee students, bilingual education, migrant children, language barriers, immigrant families
- Protected Classesrace, color, religion, sex, national origin
- eligibilityeligible, ineligible, eligibility, eligibility criteria, qualified
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
citizenship statusstatelessness
Having no recognized citizenship
non-citizen · foreign national · denaturalization · alienage · foreigner
citizenship statusundocumented status
Lacking official authorization to reside
citizen, citizenship, citizens, citizenry, cities, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization