How so? All lies are self serving. If I tell you I was born in the USA, am I lying? Or, you see my birth certificate and see that I am born in the USA. Was Dennis Hopper lying to Christopher Walken in "True Love?"
In the book "The girl who kicked a hornets nest," Swedish Constitutional protection is made to revolve, in an almost torturous way, around free speech. Murder is not as much of a crime for killing someone, as, it is a crime for depriving them of their free speech permanently.
It's a three-year felony to lie about having US citizenship, even without intent to defraud. 18 USC 911.