21.   Starting last year, children of foreigners born in Germany could obtain citizenship, and it is also easier for longtime residents to be naturalized.

22.   The ministry has kept many Russians from obtaining Israeli citizenship, getting married here or bringing relatives to the country by questioning their Jewishness.

23.   The officials told the news agency that Ressam had recently tried to obtain Canadian citizenship, but was denied it.

24.   The pending bill aims to crack down on illegal immigration and also would make it much harder for legal immigrants who have not obtained citizenship to secure federal services.

25.   The same law that bans most ethnic Russians from obtaining citizenship permitted Siegerist to do so because his father was an ethnic Latvian.

26.   The situation is further complicated by the fact that Kelly obtained Irish citizenship in January, after his first trial on the rape charge ended with a hung jury.

27.   U.S. Soccer officials first approached him in April about obtaining citizenship, and they have been on a whirlwind ever since.

28.   A few of the mujahedeen fighters obtained Bosnian citizenship and stayed behind.

29.   A weightlifter on the Israeli Olympic team was convicted Sunday of fraudently obtaining citizenship by paying an Israeli woman to marry him.

30.   According to the Arab Weightlifting Federation rules, foreigners can join the national teams only four years after obtaining citizenship.