In the Wired aricle, Elon Musk Could Have U.S. Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms, Steve said that if Musk worked in the United States without authorization but attested that he hadn’t done so, it’s not clear whether that would be considered important enough to denaturalize him. However, he said, “on purely legal grounds, this would justify revoking citizenship, because if he had told the truth, he would not have been eligible for an H-1B [visa], a green card, or naturalization.” The article also notes that applications for a green card include questions about whether the applicant has ever worked in the United States without authorization, violated the terms or conditions of their nonimmigrant status, or given the government false, fraudulent, or misleading information. Having done so is grounds for deportability. “Those grounds of deportability have been around for decades, and the forms back then probably had similar or identical questions,” Steve said.
