The Trump administration is expanding the requirement for immigrants who are hoping to become US citizens to display “good moral character,” in a move that some immigration lawyers denounced as a troubling change that adds uncertainty to the naturalization process.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security that administers the country’s legal immigration system, directed its officers in a memo last week to more heavily consider both positive and negative “attributes or contributions” of people going through the naturalization process to become US citizens.

The memo, which was sent to USCIS officers on Friday, requires them to take a more “holistic approach in evaluating whether or not an alien seeking naturalization has affirmatively

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