naturalize
Citizenship is either by birth or naturalization.
He is asking the court to grant his naturalization application.
She spent most of her life in England, undergoing naturalization in 1902.

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naturalization | Business English

naturalization
noun[ U ]
 LAW (UK alsonaturalisation)uk /ˌnætʃərəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /ˌnætʃərələˈzeɪʃən/
the process of becoming or making someone a citizen of a country that they were not born in:
The new system was trialed with more than 6,000 immigrants who were applying for naturalization.
a naturalization application/certificate/petition

Examples of naturalization

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Cases demonstrate, however, that recognition of a husband's marital privilege was acknowledged or withheld on racial terms and in conjunction with congressional naturalization laws.
Both naturalization and longer residence weaken the effect of immigrant status on opinions of immigration.
Refugees cannot be disentangled from the modern state and its bureaucratic control over immigration, naturalization, visas, and the granting of asylum and refugee status.
English legal restrictions on naturalization and the admission and treatment of aliens were relaxed through colonial naturalization laws.
In this regard, the language testing proposal can be viewed as a critique of the previous official decisions on immigrants' naturalization process.
This is wholly in keeping with a framework of naturalization that was materialist without being determinist or amoral.
Naturalization designates an integrative strategy of reception by which the textual and contextual inconsistencies may be traced back to a narrative voice and thus resolved.
The third point focuses on the assertion that neuroscience calls for a naturalization of ethics.
Intimately involved in the identity question was the naturalization issue.
Also, the constitutions seem to have been interpreted incorrectly, for the significance of ' naturalization ' has not, to my knowledge, been examined.
Upon their naturalization, these commodities could disappear, because the desiring subject itself became a signifier for them.
The existence of a valid passport (or other identification stating citizenship) continued to prevent implicit naturalization.
The union also required all foreign-born members who were not citizens to start the process of naturalization.
This naturalization process is par ticularly evident in claims of the total incomprehensibility of others' accents.
The results reveal the importance of the production of viable seeds for the naturalization process.
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