No Stupid Questions

1. If you are a citizen because your parent/spouse was, and that parent/spouse has their citizenship revoked under subsection (a) because of fraud, you lose your citizenship.
2. If you are a citizen because your parent/spouse was, and that parent/spouse has their citizenship revoked under subsection (c) because of any reason other than fraud, you lose your citizenship if you are not residing in the United States at the time their citizenship is revoked.

You don't suck at reading comprehension, this is difficult to understand.

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This depends a lot on your mother. If she's a Naturalized citizen, then if she's de-naturalized for fraud or anything that invalidates the naturalization application, then you would lose your citizenship as well. It's basically just Uno Reverse. However, it seems like if she's simply the target of some current administration retribution and is a one-off, targeted de-naturalization, or she rescinds her citizenship, as long as you're in the United States, you should be able to keep your citizenship.

The degree to which "skeletons in the closet" are bad is relative to how it affects her naturalization application, and if that would constitute fraud on that application. If she simply spent 5 years running turtle races at a beach resort and feels bad about it, probably not a big deal. If she spent 5 years in prison and escaped, then said on her naturalization application she was working at a beach resort all that time, that would be bad.

If you are concerned that your mother might be de-naturalized, then it's worth talking to her about it using secure methods, such as Signal.

This IS legal advice: DO NOT post anywhere online the specific reasons why you are concerned about her citizenship. Anywhere. Do not send it in an email; do not send it in a SMS or Whatsapp message. Unless you are contact with a lawyer, DO NOT put the specific concerns in text anywhere.

INAL, but if you have eligibility to another country's citizenship, there is the possibility—maybe even more so in the current US climate—that US citizenship could be revoked. Countries cannot make citizens stateless, so there must a secondary country that you would be eligible to be a citizen of, before the US could make you a non-US citizen.

That said, it seems like anything goes these days, so the big orange fella could change that approach too... Good luck and hope there's no skeletons to worry about.

It sounds like, essentially what you're saying, I think. That if your mother lied or omitted information that would have led to a denial of her citizenship approval, and this is later discovered she will have her citizenship revoked, and you would also lose citizenship. Essentially because it would be considered that she committed fraud to obtain citizenship, and you by extension would be a benefactor of her fraud even if you were unaware of it.

However,it also sounds like if her citizenship is revoked for other reasons not involving fraudulent statements and covering up a past that would have barred her from citizenship, you will keep your citizenship providing you are in the US when hers is revoked.

That's my very rough reading of it, and yeah, it's a bunch of fucking legalese. It's honestly frustrating that laws like this don't have a "simple english wikipedia" equivalent to explain it to non-lawyers.

As others have said, if you have citizenship solely through your mom, and she got that citizenship though fraud (let’s say she concealed the fact that she was a criminal or something,) the she’s have her citizenship revoked.

It would be as though she never had it.

Which means it would be as though you never had it.

For a more specific case… Musk lied on his citizenship docs. He was here on a student visa and was not attending school.

If he gets his revoked (which he won’t coz he’s rich.) any of his kids could lose theirs- if their mothers weren’t also is citizens.

Damn those are some long and wordy sentences