Citizenship

Almost 98,000 people in Arizona whose citizenship papers have not been confirmed can vote in state and local races.

The RNC filed a motion to stay a court decision striking down proof-of-citizenship voting requirements in Arizona.

Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) appeared together for a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to promote an election integrity bill.

Democrats in the House Oversight Committee voted against a bill seeking to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census. 

German lawmakers on Friday approved legislation easing the rules on gaining citizenship and ending restrictions on holding dual citizenship.

A convicted terrorist whom Australia had wanted to strip of his citizenship and deport will be released into the community.

Former First Lady Melania Trump welcomed new American citizens on Friday during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives, speaking to them about the “responsibility” of being a U.S. citizen and the importance of “guarding our freedom.”

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (OH) is introducing legislation that would make English the official language of the United States.

A British court has denied an appeal by Shamima Begum, the former bride of an Islamic State fighter, to regain her British citizenship. 

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from 13 Orthodox priests and several opposition politicians alleged to have ties to Russia.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who fled to Russia in 2013 after leaking classified documents about NSA surveillance programs.

A French mayor backed a proposal to allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections and stand for office, citing “social justice.”

A Swiss court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan woman having her Swiss passport stripped after she separated from her local husband just months after getting it and remarried a Lebanese man shortly after their divorce.

Syrians getting citizenship tripled in 2021 as many of those who arrived during the migrant crisis became eligible to claim nationality. 

A poll has found that a majority of those living in the Dutch-speaking Belgian region of Flanders believes that no immigrants can be truly Belgian and that to be Belgian requires being born in the country. The poll of 2,000

The government revoked the nationality of 78 babies from Moroccan mothers who lied about the father of their child being Spanish. 

Turkish government authorities rejected the citizenship applications of Uyghur refugees fleeing genocide by China in occupied East Turkistan last year on the grounds they allegedly posed risks to Turkey’s “national security” or “social order,” Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.

A Danish court has sentenced 29-year-old Adam Touhou to six years in prison and to be stripped of his citizenship followed by deportation for recruiting for the Islamic State terror group.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who reports originally said went missing in Afghanistan, confirmed that the family he was helping evacuate Afghanistan successfully made it out of the country after President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), a founding member of the far-left “Squad” on Capitol Hill, declared Monday that all illegal immigrants in the United States should possess a pathway to citizenship.

The new Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl has called on the government to suspend granting citizenship to Turkish citizens and demanded stricter asylum rules.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday on MSNBC that citizens of foreign countries who have overstayed U.S.-issued visas should get an “earned pathway to citizenship” so they do not have to fear getting the coronavirus vaccine or dropping their kids off at school.

The Danish government has reached an agreement with several other major parties on citizenship that will prevent anyone given conditional and unconditional prison sentences from becoming citizens.

Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén has criticised a proposed language requirement to obtain Swedish citizenship, saying the proposal affects women and will increase segregation.

Shamima Begum, the teenager who joined ISIS and shocked with comments on beheading non-Muslims cannot return, the Supreme Court ruled.

Legislation introduced in both chambers of Congress on Thursday by Democrats and supported by the Biden administration would replace the term “alien” with “noncitizen” in existing federal immigration law.

A 36-year-old French woman claims that her abusive migrant husband used her in an attempt to obtain French citizenship so he could abandon her and her children and bring his African wife and family to France.

Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians must fulfill their obligations to the state but owe an even higher allegiance to God.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is tightening curbs against the legal immigration and naturalization of communists and other advocates of totalitarian political movements.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a USCIS rule to better fund immigration services for people seeking citizenship and asylum.

Five legal immigrants swore loyalty to the United States during the second night of the GOP convention, giving President Trump an opportunity to tout the incalculable value of U.S. citizenship and to emphasize the new immigrants’ duties to other Americans.

Senior Conservative MPs are calling for the repatriation of jihadi brides and their children, citing a human rights charity which claims many are victims of trafficking.

Four states, thus far, are helping President Trump’s administration get an accurate count of the American citizen population after the United States Supreme Court blocked such a question on the 2020 Census. 

Potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants may secure United States citizenship ahead of the 2020 presidential election, adding a bloc of new, first-time foreign-born voters to the electorate. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that France has not violated the human rights of five men who were stripped of their citizenship after terrorist convictions.

Over 18,000 people who came to Sweden during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis have been granted Swedish citizenship — and by extension EU citizenship — since being initially accepted for asylum status.