More than 400 Cubans of Spanish ancestry mobbed that country's stately embassy in Havana on Monday, waiting to apply for citizenship under the newly enacted "law of grandchildren."
When Staff Sgt. Rene Reale deploys to Iraq for the second time early next year, he'll risk his life fighting alongside his fellow members of the North Carolina National Guard.
Almost 200 U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq celebrated Tuesday's elections in a special way and were sworn in as U.S. citizens.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president.
The number of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship has sharply declined in the first half of 2008, compared to the first six months of 2007. A look at application totals from January through June for previous years:
Immigrants aren't seeking U.S. citizenship as often these days — not since the American dream became more expensive.
It's unlikely any comprehensive immigration bill will be passed if its creation is left up to Congress, according to the former head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
For more than 60 years the Marine Corps has proudly told the story of Sgt. Michael Strank and the five other warriors who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
The Justice Department asked a federal court Tuesday to revoke the citizenship of an 86-year-old Seattle-area man, saying he served in a Nazi unit that slaughtered 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II.
Now that the federal government has thrown a lifeline to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers could be on the hook for billions more if the crisis of confidence spreads.
WASHINGTON — Washington is seeing a revival of a 1996 partisan election-year battle over the processing of citizenship applications — in reverse.
U.S. Army Spc. Kendell Frederick lost his life while trying to become a citizen of the country he was fighting for. Now, his mother hopes a bill President Bush signed into law Thursday will make sure no other soldier dies the way her son did.
Living in a homeless shelter with her teenage son and three young grandchildren, Margo Kindred needed help, and Michigan was supposed to provide it. But she couldn't get welfare benefits without her Colorado birth certificate, and couldn't get the document without $10.
Big Papi has found a new nation to call home. David Ortiz, the pride of Red Sox Nation, became a U.S. citizen Wednesday with 220 other immigrants from 57 countries at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Serious deficiencies in how the FBI checks the backgrounds of immigrants seeking to become citizens can lead to delays for those who are here legally and impede the deportation of applicants who are threats, according to an audit released Monday.
A group of Muslim immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship sued federal officials on Friday, claiming they've been left in limbo for months or years because of slow background checks.
Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected an anti-immigrant initiative that would have made it harder for foreigners to gain citizenship, according to referendum results released Sunday.
Remember the great passport-processing debacle of 2007? I hope so, because if you don’t, you may get to relive it all over again.
The conductor Daniel Barenboim, already a contentious figure among fellow Israelis for championing Palestinians' rights and the works of Hitler's favorite composer, has accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship.
For several years, there has been a steady increase in the number of children enrolling in Virginia's health insurance program for the poor. Beginning July 1, state officials say, an unprecedented slide began.
Alicia Bowers, a Panamanian immigrant, can easily recall that George Washington was the first U.S. president. She knows the three branches of government are legislative, executive and judicial.
In an effort to make the citizenship exam more meaningful, the federal government said Monday it will test an exam that relies less on trivia — such as asking the name of the president's house — and more on applicants' grasp of American democracy.
Duarnis Perez became an American citizen when he was 15, but he didn't find out until after he had been deported and then jailed for trying to get back into the country.
African and black American leaders meeting this week debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent — securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves.
Immigrant rights groups have a message for unsympathetic politicians around the country: Change your stand or risk getting voted out of office.