Passed by congress on June 29th, 1906, the Basic Naturalization act of 1906 gave individual courts authority over the naturalization process of immigrants. It also formed the Naturalization Service whose main task was to facilitate courts across the nation into running their naturalization process in a unified and federally-approved way. The Act created three unified citizenship forms: the Declaration of Intention, the Petition for Naturalization, and the certificate of Naturalization. These forms were created in the hopes to prevent fraudulent citizenship applications by using notary, watermarks, and other safety precautions. One of the most important aspects of the law to President Theodore Roosevelt was the requirement that candidates to
