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.
Illiterate foreigners are not eligible for German citizenship, according to a German court ruling disclosed Thursday.
When Republicans suffered a disastrous beating in November's election, it would have been fair to assume that things could not get worse for them: the-most-liberal-Senator was to be president, Nancy-Pelosi-from-San-Francisco was going to lead a massive Democratic majority in the …
A Turkish immigrant who has lived in Germany for some 20 years will be denied citizenship in Germany because he is illiterate, according to a Baden-Württemberg court ruling released on Thursday.
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Lake County woman, who was trying to help deputies, found herself behind bars for being an illegal immigrant. Rita Cote hasn't spent more than a day away from her three children, but now she's sitting in a Miami jail.
The brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about ties to terrorist groups on citizenship and passport papers, authorities said.
The United States Military Accepting Immigrants with temporary US visas, & Ptting Them On An Excellerated Path To Citizenship First Mentioned In The New York Times Is Just One More Attempt To Circumvent The Will of The 49.9 % Of American Citizens That Didn't Vote For Hubama and A …
There still seems to be issue with Obama failing to meet constitutional eligibility requirements which state in part:
Ironically, not only are there lawsuits pending regarding the controversy over Obama's U.S.
Barack Obama's inauguration has caused me to ruminate about generational change in the U.S.
A new lawsuit is challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and this one targets Congress as a defendant for its "failure" to uphold the constitutional demand to make sure Obama qualified before approving the Electoral College vote that actually designated him as the …
The protesters - most of them from rural areas - were angry at President Felipe Calderon's recent move to freeze the price of petrol but not diesel. The country's economy has also been hit by a fall in the amount of money sent home by Mexicans living abroad.
Around Noon on Tuesday, January 20, I thought I heard a distant screaming. It was faint, but just enough to catch my ear. I think it was the word "No", but can't be entirely positive.
Recent polls tell us that from 55-60 percent of the American people now believe that the question of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as President of the United States has at least some merit.
This will be something of a strange apology from me, since in my past; I have been the most pro American of all. I did have the opportunity to live and work in Russia, in the city of Saint Petersburg for 6 years.
Immigrants who want to become British will need to pass more tests to prove their worth under citizenship plans. The Home Office bill will make foreign nationals go through a period of probation, including learning English.
This offering is to remind that the terrible days we sometimes are asked to endure are not the end but rather a start to understanding our place in the Universe and that the evils man inflicts one to another are ours.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear four cases today.
I was digging through the proposed Legislation of the 111th Congress and I kept seeing something weird: Bills in the Senate that were titled "Relief for Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Doo", and there's a bunch of them:
Hundreds of thousands of relatives of Spaniards who sought exile from the country's civil war and ensuing dictatorship can apply for Spanish nationality from Monday, an association for exiles said. Under legislation that went into effect Saturday, up to half a million forei …
Hundreds of Cubans lined up outside the Spanish Embassy in Havana on Monday (local time) on the first day Spain began taking applications for Spanish citizenship under the country's "historic memory" law.
It was front page news in the local Chinese newspaper about a man by the name of Lim Seong Choon, 61, from Kuantan, Malaysia, a town where I am from. He finally got his citizenship statues after 40 years. He made his first application for citizenship when he was 21.
The Justice Department is contending that a Jewish defendant in Iowa should be denied bail in part because he, like all Jews, is entitled to Israeli citizenship if he seeks to immigrate to the Jewish state.
Prior to the November General Election I wrote an article called This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You. It highlighted the state of affairs here in Democrat controlled Illinois.
"Honorary Parisian citizenship was bestowed upon kidnapped IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit on Tuesday, on the initiative of MP Claude Goasguen, who is also mayor of the 16th arrondissement (municipality) of Paris.
Abdeloihab Boujrad, 38, a U.S. citizen originally from Morocco, and his wife Leila Bendaoud, 31, had been trying since June 2005 to get their son to join them in the United States.