Historical clue formulations

• Political exile — 2026-06-21
• Einstein, notably — 2025-05-22
• Citizenship test taker, perhaps — 2022-04-01
• New citizen, perhaps — 2021-12-23
• Defector, perhaps — 2020-10-16
• Albert Einstein or Enrico Fermi — 2020-05-15
• Albert Einstein, notably — 2019-02-28
• New citizenship seeker — 2018-01-02
• Expat — 2017-10-27
• Asylum seeker, maybe — 2017-08-24
• Edward Snowden, notably — 2015-05-02
• Einstein, notably — 2010-01-01
• Asylum seeker, perhaps — 2008-10-22
• Settler from a foreign land — 2007-12-03
• One who's left — 2006-12-03
• Rachmaninoff, for one — 2005-07-27
• New arrival, of sorts — 2004-09-15
• Asylum seeker, maybe — 2004-08-15
• Political asylum seeker — 2003-09-14
• Political refugee — 2003-07-08
• New arrival — 2002-09-19
• New citizen, perhaps — 2001-08-17
• Displaced person, maybe — 2001-03-07
• Solzhenitsyn, e.g. — 2001-01-11
• Asylum seeker — 2000-05-28
• Nabokov, e.g. — 1999-06-16
• Rudolf Nureyev, e.g. — 1999-05-02
• Einstein, e.g. — 1999-01-24
• Foreign fleer — 1998-04-18
• Baryshnikov, e.g. — 1998-01-11
• Einstein, e.g. — 1997-06-21
• Asylum seeker — 1996-08-07
• Vladimir Nabokov or Jerzy Kosinski — 1996-08-04
• Refugee — 1996-05-07
• Refugee, for one — 1995-12-17
• Einstein or Fermi, e.g. — 1995-10-22