0 the act of making someone a legal citizen of a country that they were not born in:
laws regulating naturalization and immigration
If they can't prove their citizenship, they have to go through the naturalization process.
1 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
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.
The female intellect was naturalized not once but repeatedly, and therein lies its value for a history of naturalization.
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.
A direct link was drawn between these elements in the form of new legal responses to aliens, naturalization processes, and domestic dissent.
Let me turn, then, to the last part of this paper: the 'naturalization' of the railways on the sub-continent.
Both naturalization and longer residence weaken the effect of immigrant status on opinions of immigration.
