The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has created a stand-alone denaturalization section to strip citizenship from foreigners who failed to disclose their criminal past or otherwise lied in the naturalization process.

A three-judge panel, writing per curiam, ruled Thursday that Honolulu district court judge Derrick Watson did not go beyond the scope of the Supreme Court’s order when he exempted refugees who have formal help from a U.S.-based refugee resettlement agency, or to grandparents, grandchildren, brothers- and sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews of people in the United States. Those familial relationships, the panel said, are clearly bona fide.