path to citizenship
Immigration legal journey
A path to citizenship is a legal process by which immigrants can eventually become naturalized citizens of a country.
The phrase appears most often in U.S. political debates about immigration reform, where proposals may create, expand, or deny such paths for undocumented residents: The bill includes a path to citizenship for Dreamers.
Critics sometimes dismiss these proposals as "amnesty."
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- sworn inFormally bound by oath
- green cardU.S. residency document
- work permitOfficial employment eligibility document
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
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- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, asylum
- citizenshipnationality, passport, birthright, denaturalization, renunciation
- integrationintegration, synthesis, fusion, merging, unifying
path to citizenshipdeportation
Legal expulsion from country
removal · expulsion · self-deportation · repatriation · banishment
path to citizenshipundocumented status
Lacking official authorization to reside
statelessness · legal limbo · denaturalization · visa overstay
path to citizenshipclosed borders
Restricted national entry points
mass deportation · immigration enforcement · border wall · restrictionism · nativism
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