Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays, knew he was facing a sceptical audience when he set "citizenship" as one of the his four priorities on taking the helm last year.
State standards for elected offices vary but follow a similar pattern of setting age, citizenship and residency for state offices.
Spain's lower house of parliament this month approved a law setting a citizenship path for the descendants of Jews who were forced to flee the country centuries ago.
"They either didn't meet the conditions set for citizenship, or their supporter list didn't meet our conditions or there were problems in their documents," said the head of the commission, Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani.
For example, the rules set higher citizenship requirements for miniaturists and prohibited them from using oils.
SNCC organizers Bernard and Colia Lafayette set up Citizenship Schools, teaching people to pass literacy tests to get registered.
In July, a federal judge stripped him of his American citizenship, setting up his deportation.
The government quit amid infighting over a failed attempt to strip Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the prominent Somali-born critic of Islam, of her Dutch citizenship, setting the stage for elections likely to be dominated by immigration issues.
In a broad order that has reverberated across the hemisphere, the court has instructed the authorities here to audit all of the nation's birth records back to June 1929 to determine who no longer qualifies for citizenship, setting off international alarm.
Political strategy led the Conservative party into dark corners this election: banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies, setting up snitch lines for "barbaric cultural practices," creating second-class citizenship in the terrorism laws and reading lists of "the enemies of Israel" at rallies.
