A baby girl with a married lesbian couple as her parents became stateless after Bulgaria refused to recognize her, despite one of the women being from Bulgaria. A magistrate for Europe’s top court says that was wrong.
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Liberians have rejected plans to shorten presidential terms and to allow dual citizenship, the country’s electoral commission said Thursday, announcing referendum results delayed for months over allegations of fraud.
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A federal court in New York denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s third request for release on bail, finding that she still poses a flight risk even though she offered to renounce her French and British citizenship and proposed to have her money placed into an account that would be monitored by a retired judge.
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Israeli religious leaders, including key election allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, criticized Tuesday a supreme court decision ending an Orthodox monopoly on Jewish conversions.
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A woman who ran away from London as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her bid Friday to return to the U.K. to fight for the restoration of her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds.
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In her latest motion for bail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell offered Tuesday to renounce her French and U.K. citizenships.
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With no bridge to conservatives on enhanced security measures, the Democrats’ bill shoulders the new administration’s ambition to undo the protectionist policies of the last one.
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The terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” began on Wednesday with his argument that a Rwandan court cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen and his assertion that he was kidnapped and is being held hostage.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern angrily accused Australia Tuesday of shirking its responsibility for a dual national arrested in Turkey with alleged links to the Islamic State militant group.
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China said Friday it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to allow millions of Hong Kong residents a route to residency and eventual citizenship.
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A Japanese court upheld a ban on dual citizenship on Thursday, rejecting a suit that challenged the measure’s constitutionality and sought damages for those affected.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s father Stanley confirmed plans on Thursday to seek French citizenship as the free movement of Britons in the EU comes to an end under the Brexit pact delivered by his son.
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The Netherlands violated a child’s rights by failing to acknowledge that he was stateless and eligible for international protection, a U.N. committee found Tuesday, urging the country to change its legislation.
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Hundreds of foreigners in France whose jobs expose them to high Covid-19 risks will be naturalized quickly for their commitment during the health crisis, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
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Europe’s top rights court found that Russia was wrong to revoke a man’s nationality for not listing all of his siblings on a citizenship form.
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A woman who joined the Islamic State in Syria would pose “a clear and present threat” to national security if she was allowed to return to Britain to appeal a decision to revoke her citizenship, the U.K. government told the Supreme Court on Monday.
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Former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden said Monday that he and his wife intend to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing their U.S. citizenship.
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Cyprus’ parliamentary speaker has resigned after an undercover news report allegedly caught him on tape promising to help circumvent the country’s rules on granting citizenship to foreign investors.
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Cyprus said on Tuesday it will scrap its citizenship scheme for foreign investors next month over alleged abuses uncovered in a television program.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the government’s decision to revoke a Muslim immigrant’s citizenship 18 years after he became a U.S. citizen. The man marked “no” on his application that he had never knowingly committed a crime, even while he funneled money to terrorists as CEO of the Islamic American Relief Agency.
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