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The average processing time for a citizenship application was cut in half from a record high of 11.5 months in 2021 to 4.9 months this fiscal year, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...
The United States government first released a list of former U.S. citizens in a State Department letter to Congress made public by a 1995 Joint Committee on Taxation report. [4] That report contained the names of 978 people who had relinquished U.S. citizenship between January 1, 1994 and April 25, 1995. [5]
On February 5, US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, saying the order "conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth" and was "likely to be found unconstitutional."
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution — which was ratified three years after the end of the Civil War — states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the ...
From 2013 to 2024, an average of 860,000 babies were born to foreign-born mothers each year, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. While total births in the US have ...
It is possible for a United States citizen to have dual citizenship; this can be achieved in various ways, such as by birth in the United States to a parent who is a citizen of a foreign country (or in certain circumstances the foreign nationality may be transmitted even by a grandparent) by birth in another country to a parent(s) who is/are a ...
The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency. The naturalization test is one of ...
The bill would have made sweeping changes across the board to the United States immigration, visa, and border control system, including reversal and Congressional prohibition of many of the immigration-related executive actions of former president Donald Trump; providing a path to legal residence and eventual citizenship for as many as 11 ...