Naturalized Citizen Gets Passport Back Despite Dispute Over Name

A naturalized U.S. citizen is entitled to get his passport back because it was arbitrarily revoked by the government during a dispute over his name, the Second Circuit said Wednesday.

Ahmed Ali Alzokari came to the U.S. in 1972 and was naturalized in 1979. Up until he was naturalized, different legal documents used variations of his name, but his naturalization certificate used Ahmed Ali Alzokari.

In 2013, while Alzokari was in Yemen to claim a child as his own, embassy officials suspected fraud in the transaction and called Special Agent David W. Howell, who interrogated Alzokari for several hours. Alzokari ...