Honorary citizenship of the United States by proclamation. What rights and privileges honorary citizenship bestows, if any, is unclear. According to State Department documents, it does not grant eligibility for United States passports. Despite widespread belief that Lafayette received honorary citizenship of the United States before Churchill, he did not receive honorary citizenship until 2002. Lafayette did become a natural-born citizen during his lifetime. On 28 December 1784, the Maryland General Assembly passed a resolution stating that Lafayette and his male heirs "forever shall be...natural born Citizens" of the state. This made him a natural-born citizen of the United States under the Articles of Confederation and
Deportation of Afghan refugees from the United States person who has been convicted of any aggravated felony, whether the aggravated felony was committed inside or outside the United States, is "debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States." However, unlike a "national but not a citizen of the United States," any alien who has been convicted of an aggravated felony is removable from the United States but only if his or her "term of imprisonment was completed within the previous 15 years." Such alien cannot: An "order of deportation" may be reviewed at any time by any immigration judge or any BIA member and finally by any