Fugitive Chinese national Chao Chen was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a birth tourism scheme involving visa fraud that allowed women to come to the U.S. to give birth so their children would have U.S. birthright citizenship.
Read moreA federal court in Maryland ruled that the State Department must recognize a same-sex couple’s child as a U.S. citizen. The department incorrectly applied immigration law, because the child, though born with a surrogate in Canada, was born of married parents who were both U.S. citizens that had lived in the U.S. before her birth.
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Germany’s highest court said Wednesday it has ruled that an American woman whose Jewish father fled Nazi Germany was wrongly denied German citizenship because she was born out of wedlock.
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Gregory Minott came to the United States from his native Jamaica more than two decades ago on a student visa and was able to carve out a career in architecture thanks to temporary work visas.
Read moreA new survey released Wednesday found that three-quarters of Americans believe that undocumented immigrants mostly fill jobs that U.S. citizens don’t want.
Read moreA native-born U.S. citizen with learning disabilities sued the United States in San Antonio Federal Court, claiming Border Patrol officers arrested him without cause, despite having Texas ID on his person, deported him without seeing a judge, to Mexico, where he was kidnapped by a cartel and held for ransom, until the FBI retrieved him.
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China warned Britain on Wednesday that interfering in Hong Kong will backfire, after the former colonial power vowed to give sanctuary to locals who may flee the city if a controversial security law is passed.
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An extension to the U.S. tax filing deadline because of the Covid-19 outbreak doesn’t mean much to so-called accidental Americans, whose U.S. citizenship has caused them to lose businesses, homes and a lot of their sanity.
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BOSTON (CN) — “Non,” the First Circuit told a French woman who wants to strike the phrase “so help me
Read moreA longtime naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia sued Attorney General William Barr, et al., claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement imprisoned him for nearly a year despite knowing he is a citizen and kept him in jail after an immigration judge terminated his deportation proceeding.
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Canada will ban entry of travelers who are not citizens or permanent residents, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, but he said the ban won’t apply to Americans “for now.”
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The tiny village of Brunsmark, an hour outside Hamburg in the lush north German countryside, might seem an unlikely spot to suffer a sudden Brexit shock.
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A nonpartisan government audit says preparations for the 2020 census are dangerously behind, weeks out from the nationwide launch, but the official at the helm told lawmakers Wednesday that the largest and most complex population count in U.S. history is on track.
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Immigration advocates expressed cautious optimism Monday after a judge in Maryland blocked federal agents from detaining immigrant spouses for deportation at green card marriage interviews.
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A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join the Islamic State group lost a legal challenge Friday aimed at restoring her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds.
Read moreAn immigration attorney sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in federal court for information about its alleged “efforts to systematically strip U.S. citizens of their citizenship” under the Trump administration.
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A dual U.S.-Italian citizen who cut her political organizing teeth on two Barack Obama campaigns is emerging as the latest rising star in Italian politics.
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As hundreds of Americans prepare to evacuate Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 100, San Francisco native Doug Perez is staying behind.
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In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance to a new citizenship law that has unleashed protests across the country.
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The Trump administration unveiled a new visa rule Thursday in an effort to stop pregnant woman from traveling to the U.S. so their children can be born American citizens.
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