In 2020, after decades of living in the United States, Neil Young became a US citizen — but according to his wife, Daryl Hannah, Donald Trump’s first administration disrupted the Canadian icon’s citizenship process, causing delays and unnecessary complications.

Young was born in Toronto and grew up in Canada, but moved to the United States in 1967. He remained in the US for years after that, but only got around to getting his citizenship in 2020 so that he could participate in that year’s presidential election. According to a 2019 post on his Neil Young Archives, though, the process had been delayed due to his “use of marijuana,” causing him to be required to take “another test” after passing his initial citizenship text.

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Now, speaking to the BBC in a new interview, Hannah has shed more light on the process, explaining, “They tried every trick in the book to mess him up,...