sbeefyk2 wrote:
US citizenship can be blocked if you have committed a crime. Doping is not a crime in the court of law. You are conflating running rules with legal law. There's no law in any state or the federal level that says you cannot take EPO. You should be writing to the USATF to ban a doping cheat from competing for the US team and at US Championships.
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Here is your answer. sbeefyk2 nails it.
Before the creation of DHS (and CIS), I worked for INS (and later DHS) for 33+ years and enforced immigration laws, administered policy and procedures, and adjudicated petitions including Naturalization applications (which also included face to face interviews).
By itself EPO doping would not be a disqualifying action to the granting of citizenship. It is often confusing to those outside of the field to understand the differences between administrative and criminal law. This is compounded when the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) also provides the foundation for criminal immigration statutes under 8CFR.
This situation is something for the USATF to address.