DOJ sues to revoke citizenship of Bosnian who allegedly lied about identity when coming to US

The Justice Department filed a civil complaint Monday, seeking to revoke the citizenship of a Bosnian-American who became a naturalized citizen in 2007, after he allegedly lied about his identity when he came to the United States in 1996.

The department accused Sead Miljkovic, who is also known as Sead Dukic, of hiding his "true identity" and the fact that an arrest warrant was issued against him by a court in Bosnia for war crimes against civilians. 

The DOJ claimed that Miljkovic also failed to share with immigration authorities that he had used more than one name and listed more than one date and place of birth in different applications, and that he listed more than one name for his father and more than one woman as his wife.

“This Administration will not permit aliens to come to this country and hide their past to acquire the precious gift of U.S. citizenship,” Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate of the DOJ's Civil Division said in a statement. “Decades might pass, but when we find you, we will take action.”

The arrest warrant, which was issued in 2007, claimed Miljkovic was a former member of the security forces of the short-lived Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APZB), and that he physically mistreated civilians who were opposed to the APZB government in 1994. 

Miljkovic has not appeared before a Bosnian court on the charges.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.