Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, Dec. 31, 2021 "For almost two years, since the pandemic struck in March 2020, most US consular missions around the world have suspended their expatriation services for those wishing to give up US citizenship. The US embassy in...
Center for Migration Studies of New York, Aug. 4, 2021 "The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) has released its most recent estimates on the undocumented and eligible-to-naturalize immigrant populations in the United States. CMS estimates that...
Donald Kerwin, Robert Warren, Charles Wheeler, June 2, 2021 "This paper proposes that the United States treat naturalization not as the culmination of a long and uncertain individual process, but as an organizing principle of the US immigration system and...
NWIRP, June 11, 2021 "Today, Carlos Rios, a citizen of the United States since 2000, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seeking compensation for his unlawful...
Cyrus Mehta, June 2, 2021 "On May 18, 2021, the State Department issued guidance broadening the path for transmission of US citizenship to a child born abroad to married parents. The guidance is reproduced below: Recognizing the advances in assisted...
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era: A Discussion With Author Dr. Ming Hsu Chen "The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. The social reality, however, is far more complicated. In the fourth installment of our Reimagining Citizenship...
Kate Morrissey, LA Times, Jan. 16, 2021 "This was a 25-year process for him, and it took a federal lawsuit and six lawyers and many members of Congress to actually get his citizenship, which he is legally entitled to because of his military service.&quo...
Vivienne Walt, TIME Magazine, Dec. 23, 2020 "Other than Eritrea, the U.S. is the only country in the world with citizenship tax rules , demanding that all Americans—including anyone born in the U.S.—submit yearly tax filings to the Internal Revenue Service...
Simon Romero, Miriam Jordan, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2020 "The Trump administration is rolling out sweeping changes to the test immigrants must take to become United States citizens, injecting hints of conservative philosophy and making the test harder for...
FWD.US, Oct. 28, 2020 Immigrants Serving in the Military Have Earned Their Citizenship - Their Path to Naturalization Should Be Clear President-elect Biden and Congress can restore a fair path to citizenship for immigrants who serve "This Veteran’s Day...
The Non-Controversy Over Birthright Citizenship: Defending the Original Understanding of Jus Soli Citizenship By Margaret Stock* and Nahal Kazemi** November 2, 2020 This article aims to examine and refute arguments against the widely understood meaning of...
NILA, NWIRP, June 11, 2020 "Applicants for U.S. citizenship who could not take the oath of allegiance to complete the last step of the citizenship process for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania yesterday...
CAIR, Jan. 5, 2020 "The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA) is assisting more than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans of all ages who were detained at length and questioned at the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Blaine...
Putting Americans First: A Statistical Case for Encouraging Rather than Impeding and Devaluing US Citizenship, by Donald Kerwin and Robert Warren, Center for Migration Studies, Dec. 11, 2019 "This article examines the ability of immigrants to integrate and...
Protect Democracy, Dec. 9, 2019 "On December 9, 2019, Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring USCIS from implementing changes that would limit access to citizenship for lawful permanent...