WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will rescind a policy adopted during the Biden administration that grants reprieve to “stateless” persons in the United States from heavy immigration scrutiny.
“Statelessness” is a situation where an individual does not possess the nationality of any country, or who previously did but had that nationality unilaterally revoked by the country’s government, often due to political reasons. In the United States, U.S. citizens who renounce their citizenship can become stateless if they do not possess the nationality of any other country.
