Vocabulary
The people with certain rights and duties under a government, how owe allegiance to the government.
Citizens
The document that spells out basic rights that are protected under. our form of government.
The Bill of Rights
The Amendment where U.S. citizens have freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
1st Amendment
What is the form of protection that the government may grant to people who are of special humanitarian concern to the United States.
Refugee status
Who is the only one that can grant citizenship and take citizenship away.
The federal government
Legal process by which citizens from another country can become citizens.
Naturalization
By birth and Naturalization
The Amendment that addresses that the government may not force U.S. citizens to testify against themselves in court.
5th Amendment
Despite immigration limits, as of 2025 how many illegal immigrants were living in the United States?
15.4 million and 18.6 million
What is the way to lose U.S. citizenship?
Give it up voluntarily
Permission, usually made on a passport, to enter, to visit, or leave a nation.
Visa
What does the USCIS stand for?
United States Citizenship and Immigration Service
The Amendment that grants U.S. citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, or own guns.
2nd Amendment
How many years do immigrants need to wait before they can take steps to become citizens?
Five years.
A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's home or business and take specific itemss as evidence.
Search Warrant
People who leave their home country to live temporarily or permanently in another nation.
Immigrant
How many years must Green Card holders who marry a U.S. citizen required to live in the U.S. before applying for naturalization.
Three years
The Amendment that grants U.S. citizens are protected from unreasonable searches of a person's property.
4th Amendment
What exam must a naturalization applicant take?
Citizenship exam
The legal concept that those who have been found innocent of a criminal charge cannot be charged again for the same crime.
Double Jeopardy
Permission for legal immigrants to live in the U.S. indefinitely.
Green Card
A legal status granted to refugees who are fleeing their nation due to persecution.
Asylum
3rh Amendment
What is the two final steps in the naturalization process?
Attending a ceremony and pledging an oath of allegiance
A formal charge
Indictment