1.   The effect of this order was to confer second-class citizenship on the proud Washington.

2.   Being born in Japan does not automatically confer citizenship.

3.   The Constitution confers citizenship on virtually everyone born in the United States.

4.   Unlike the United States, Japan does not automatically confer citizenship with birth.

5.   Bangladesh on Friday conferred honorary citizenship to visiting Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, a Bengali, who studied for a while near Dhaka before the Indian subcontinent was divided.

6.   Both men carried Jordanian passports at the time of their arrests, but those documents are now considered travel documents that no longer confer citizenship.

7.   By conferring citizenship, the Los Angeles judge stopped the Immigration and Naturalization Service from initiating deportation proceedings against Yacoubian, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

8.   France confers citizenship to anyone born within its borders, including its overseas outposts in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

9.   Interior Ministry spokeswoman Tova Eliason said citizenship will be conferred in the next few days, perhaps through the Israeli Embassy.