Honorary citizenship of the United States Honorary citizenship of the United States A person of exceptional merit, generally a non-United States citizen, may be declared an honorary citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress or by a proclamation issued by the President of the United States, pursuant to authorization granted by Congress. Eight people have been so honored, six posthumously, and two, Sir Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa, 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
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