A young Mexican man whose DACA application is pending sued Attorney General Jeff Sessions for ordering him to be deported anyway; and in Houston, children who acquired U.S. citizenship from their father sued U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for denying them a passport.
Read moreA leading campaigner for Britain’s exit from the European Union has been accused of hypocrisy after applying for permanent residency in France.
Read moreThe State Department on Tuesday defended its decision to deny a passport to an intersex applicant, telling a federal judge a passport’s very specific purpose leaves no room for it to be an instrument of self-expression.
Read moreDivisions over whether to provide a conduit to citizenship for young “Dreamer” immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally loomed as the pivotal sticking point Wednesday as House Republicans searched for a solution to their campaign-season standoff over an issue that has split them for years.
Read moreA Bahrain court on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of 115 people at a mass terrorism trial, sentencing dozens to prison amid a years-long crackdown on all dissent in the island kingdom.
Read moreAmid outrage over the Trump administration’s plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday threatened to subpoena a Justice Department official who did not appear to testify before the committee.
Read moreDefending its enemy-combatant designation of a U.S. citizen captured on the Islamic State battlefield, the government told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that courts cannot review its decision to transfer the man from Iraq.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday night blocked the government from transferring an American citizen accused of fighting with Islamic State militants to Saudi Arabia until he can fully challenge his detention in court.
Read moreA decorated former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work on behalf of deported veterans drew widespread attention to his cause became a U.S. citizen Friday, giving immigration advocates a rare reason to celebrate.
Read moreRecasting a Guatemalan woman’s habeas case as a federal class action, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts accused immigration officials Wednesday of targeting the spouses of U.S. citizens.
Read moreThe Justice Department lobbied two federal courts Wednesday to strip citizenship from people it says committed war crimes as former members of the Bosnian army.
Read moreSix cities, 18 attorneys general and a bipartisan group of U.S. mayors filed a federal complaint Tuesday to keep a question about citizenship status out of the 2020 census, as it has been on every survey since 1950.
Read moreA deported Army veteran who has been living in Tijuana for eight years was granted U.S. citizenship Thursday after a lawsuit asking a federal judge to approve his naturalization application.
Read moreNineteen attorneys general and the governor of Colorado banded together Monday to protest the proposed inclusion of citizen status in the 2020 census.
Read moreAn American woman whose wife is from Italy brought a federal complaint Monday against the State Department, claiming it cited an internal agency policy to unfairly deny one of their sons birthright U.S. citizenship.
Read moreA man claims in Minnesota federal court that the government has delayed processing his citizenship application for 15 years without a reasonable explanation.
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A French atheist who has been brushing up on the U.S. Constitution as part of her preparations to become a U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that the phrase “so help me God” is standing in the way of her taking the oath of naturalization.
Read moreAn alternative energy investment firm representing foreign investors sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday, claiming it has merely “spun its wheels” to delay worthy immigrants’ visas.
Read moreA federal judge rebuked the Defense Department on Friday for freezing out foreign-born U.S. Army reservists whose citizenship it had promised to fast-track.
Read moreThe Department of Defense must stop blocking U.S. citizenship applications from three soldiers serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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