No law on this, but yes a smart landlord will want to see proof of citizenship from perspective tenants, to protect his future rental income on that unit. Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) "Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both." Do you think that this covers rentals? I don't think I'll take any chances! If there is no SS card, adios......
Yes. Housing law has nothing to do with immigration law, and a landlord has no obligation to investigate a prospective tenant's citizenship status. Furthermore, federal housing law prohibits discrimination based on race or ethnicity. The landlord who refuses to rent to someone because of a question of citizenship is probably basing his concern on ethnicity. Does the landlord ask every prospective tenant, or just those who look "foreign."
A landlord can certainly ask for ID to determine who he is dealing with. However, the person's citizenship or immigration status should never be the concern of a landlord. No landlord has any obligation (or authority) to deal with immigration issues. Furthermore, rejecting a prospective tenant based on immigration questions is surely a violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act, being illegal discrimination based in ethnicity.
This depends on the complaint you have against him, whether the Landlord has a boss, and if the landlord takes Section 8 or owns a complex that is under a federal loan or tax credit. If the landlord is an individual landlord he is subject to code rules of the municipality of the rental unit. If the complaint is about discriminatory issues you can complain to HUD. If he takes Section 8 you can complain to your Section 8 specialist.
the federal government granted Native Americans citizenship -AKG<3
Granting citizenship
Granting citizenship
Federal court jurisdiction.
No! There is a Federal law that says that they cannot.
No. The housing authority might, but not the landlord. Of course, in some cases, the housing authority is the landlord.
State department
by telling people
No, that is known as BIGAMY, and is against the law(at least in the US). If the purpose of the US marriage was to gain American citizenship, that is FRAUD and is a federal offense.