Four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) na­tion­als - in­clud­ing a Trinida­di­an - are among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.

Un­der the Im­mi­gra­tion and Na­tion­al­i­ty Act, cit­i­zen­ship may be re­voked and cer­tifi­cate of nat­u­ral­iza­tion can­celled, if the nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion was il­le­gal­ly pro­cured or pro­cured by con­ceal­ment of a ma­te­r­i­al fact or by wil­ful mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the De­part­ment of Jus­tice, the Caribbean na­tion­als are from Ja­maica, Trinidad and To­ba­go and Haiti.