U.S. citizenship

The federal government is approving citizenship requests at the quickest rate in a decade, dispensing with a backlog attributed to the coronavirus pandemic and a tighter approval regime that reached its zenith under former President Donald Trump, a report Tuesday sets out.

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.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Rob Portman (R-OH) are throwing their support behind a plan by President Joe Biden to provide green cards to more than 85,000 Afghans resettled across the United States over the last eight months, putting them on a fast-track for naturalized American citizenship.

Citing “advances in assisted reproductive technology,” President Joe Biden’s State Department is “updating” the Immigration and Nationality Act that contains the requirements for the granting of U.S. citizenship to children born abroad. The new policy will allow children of married same-sex couples to have a pathway to citizenship even if those children are not related to a U.S. citizen.

President Donald Trump’s administration announced a new Justice Department unit focused on revoking U.S. citizenship obtained through fraud.

President Trump is the first president in United States history to take action on the issue of “birth tourism,” where visiting pregnant foreign nationals travel to the country to secure their children birthright American citizenship, expert Jessica Vaughan says. 

President Trump’s administration is readying a new rule to crack down on foreign nationals arriving in the United States on tourist and visitor visas only to deliver their children in the country to secure them birthright American citizenship, a new report states. 

Close to 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States in 2019 as an executive order to end birthright citizenship gets kicked down the road for another year by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Senate Republicans and Democrats approved a defense budget for Fiscal Year 2020 after slipping into it an amnesty for nearly 1,000 Liberian nationals who will now be eligible for American citizenship.

About 72,000 United States-born children delivered every year to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students are rewarded birthright American citizenship, a new study reveals.

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) is pushing a new bill that would transport many Muslims from Syria and Kurdistan into America’s schools and workplaces.

The Trump administration released a regulation on Monday that would make it harder for immigrants who use public assistance such food stamps, Medicaid, or other forms of welfare to receive green cards and become U.S. citizens.

White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke is promising to fast-track American citizenship for more than nine million green card holders and provide amnesty for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens should he become president.

Texas Rangers star shortstop Elvis Andrus has become an American citizen, and he’s letting the world know how much it means to him.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday” that Hoda Muthana, the wife of an Islamic State fighter who filed suit to force the U.S. government to accept her and her 18-month-old son as American citizens, does not have a legitimate claim of citizenship and will not be allowed into the United States.

Co-defendants accused of orchestrating a scheme in which they promised U.S. citizenship and other relevant documents for a fee, pleaded guilty on fraud charges in a South Texas federal courtroom.

Comedy Central’s Jim Jefferies, a regular critic of president Donald Trump recently became a naturalized citizen, but in recent comments claimed he was afraid that Trump would somehow block his bid for citizenship.

Twins pitcher Fernando Rodney left the game early Sunday, but it was for a good reason. He had to catch a flight to make an early Monday morning ceremony to get his U.S. citizenship.

A controversial visa program that ultimately allows wealthy foreign nationals to promise investments in the United States in exchange for U.S. citizenship would end if Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) legal immigration overhaul is enacted.

A federal judge in Florida sentenced a former Bosnian soldier to prison and stripped him of his U.S. citizenship following his conviction for lying on his naturalization application. The former soldier left an indictment and conviction for war crimes off of his application for U.S. citizenship.

Federal prosecutors led by a Department of Justice (DOJ) official appointed by President Donald Trump have filed a civil lawsuit to strip illegally-procured American citizenship from a man who pleaded guilty to an al-Qaeda-linked plot to attack New York nearly 14 years ago.

A San Antonio woman pleaded guilty to federal charges involving a cash for green card scheme. The woman now faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the 8 counts in the case.

Three months before he and his brother detonated two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon — killing three and wounding more than 260 people — Tamerlan Tsarnaev passed the test to become a U.S. citizen, according to the Boston Globe.

While it may lack the size and luxuries of Aaron Spelling’s famed 56,000 sq. ft. mansion, actress Emily Blunt’s former residence is now up for rent on the lodging website Airbnb, and it is giving renters a chance to see how well America has treated the British-born leading lady.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told Fox News on Monday he supports building a wall along the U.S-Mexico border and ending birthright citizenship, echoing GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s immigration plan.

Irvine-based immigration attorney Ken Zhiyi Liang has been arrested and charged with repeated witness tampering for assisting multiple material witnesses in fleeing the United States, in violation of orders in the March Chinese “maternity tourism” scandals.