U.S. citizenship

In 2020, the Trump administration nearly doubled the length of the form that immigrants with disabilities can use to apply for a citizenship-test waiver. The government recently shortened and simplified the form. Here, a person holds an American flag while participating in a naturalization ceremony to become a U.S. citizen in Miami in 2018.

U.S. removes Trump-era barriers to citizenship-test waivers for disabled immigrants

Juliana Kim

The Trump administration had put in place hurdles for disabled applicants seeking to naturalize, including nearly doubling the length of the form used to apply for a citizenship-test waiver.

The House oversight committee has released internal documents about the failed push for a census citizenship question by former President Donald Trump's administration, including Wilbur Ross, the former commerce secretary who is shown at a White House meeting in 2018.

Documents detail the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push

Hansi Lo Wang

Newly released documents confirm the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question was part of a bid to alter the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College.

Rena Logan, a member of a Cherokee Freedmen family, shows her identification card as a member of the Cherokee tribe at her home in Muskogee, Okla., in this photo from October 2011. She is among the some 8,500 people whose ancestors were enslaved by the Cherokee Nation in the 1800s.

Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights 'By Blood'

Mary Louise Kelly

The wording in the Cherokee Nation's legal doctrine has been used to exclude Black people whose ancestors were once enslaved by the Cherokees — known as Freedmen — from their full tribal rights.

Demonstrators hold signs at a rally about redistricting outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. The Census Bureau said Friday it has "suspended indefinitely" work on citizenship data that a GOP strategist said would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" during redistricting.

Biden Administration Tables Trump's Citizenship Data Request For Redistricting

Hansi Lo Wang

Trump officials had directed the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data that a GOP strategist said would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" during redistricting.

New U.S citizens being naturalized this past summer at a federal immigration facility in West Kendall.

Pandemic Insecurity, Fee Increases Prod More Immigrants to Miami-Dade's Citizenship Mega-Clinic

Tim Padgett

Feeling unusually vulnerable, hundreds of eligible immigrants are set to attend the Miami-Dade County Office of New Americans citizenship prep this week.

A sign encourages newly sworn-in U.S. citizens to register to vote outside a naturalization ceremony in 2019 in Los Angeles. After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Trump administration is continuing to gather government records to produce citizenship data for redistricting.

To Figure Out Who's A Citizen, Trump Administration Is Using These Records

Hansi Lo Wang

After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question onto 2020 census forms, the Trump administration is turning to IRS tax forms, Medicaid data and Interior Department law enforcement records.

Ken Cuccinelli speaks on Feb. 7 in Washington. A federal judge said his appointment to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was unlawful.

Judge Says Ken Cuccinelli Was Appointed Unlawfully To Top Immigration Post

James Doubek

The ruling by a federal judge on Sunday invalidates two directives issued by Cuccinelli at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that were designed to tighten federal asylum guidelines.

‘Public Charge’ Screenings Available Free For Low-Income Immigrants in South Florida

Starting Monday, low-income immigrants will be at a greater risk of being denied a visa or a green card.The Trump administration’s new “public charge…

Visiting the U.S. to have a baby — and secure a U.S. passport for the child — is not "a legitimate activity for pleasure or of a recreational nature," the State Department says.

Trump Administration Targets 'Birth Tourism' With New Visa Rule

Bill Chappell

Saying "birth tourism poses risks to national security," the State Department tells consular officials to deny a visa if they believe a potential visitor has the "primary purpose" of giving birth.

Demonstrators against the Trump administration's push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in April.

Census Bureau Finds Latinos, Asians Sensitive To Now-Blocked Citizenship Question

Hansi Lo Wang

The question would have likely lowered census response rates in some areas, according to the Census Bureau's final report on its experiment testing public reaction to the controversial inquiry.

‘We Cubans Have Lost Ground In Miami’: Protesters Demand Reinstatement Of Parole Program

Miami resident María del Carmen Nieto woke up early Sunday morning with a mission in mind: fight for her son.She was one of more than a 100 protesters who…

President Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr announce the Trump administration's decision to back down from its push for a citizenship question in the White House Rose Garden in July.

Email Trail On Citizenship Question Is Longer Than Trump Officials Said

Hansi Lo Wang

The Justice Department told a court it has realized there are more internal documents that it inadvertently failed to disclose before lawsuits over the now-blocked census citizenship question ended.