Status of changes to the first-generation limit on citizenship Updated The Citizenship Act includes a first-generation limit to citizenship by descent. This limit generally means someone isn't ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he thought it was awful that President-elect Donald Trump was trying to do away with birthright citizenship in the United States.

Bowers and her husband, Damon Smith, however, are among the 524 diaspora members, mostly Black Americans, who were granted Ghanaian citizenship in a ceremony in November. Bowers and Smith moved to ...

You look at your skin. So I didn’t need (citizenship) to tell me that I’m African. Anywhere I go in the world, and someone looks at me, I’m melanated," said Bowers. Together with another 522 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans. It ...

(photo: Mario Tama / Getty ) President-elect Donald Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to ending birthright citizenship — and it’s something he’d like to accomplish on Day One.

Avi Steinberg, an Israeli-born author, announced on Thursday that he had formally renounced his Israeli citizenship. Justifying his decision in an article for the left-leaning news publication ...

Fish was unable to register in 2014 because he didn’t have an acceptable copy of his birth certificate to comply with a proof-of-citizenship law that was later struck down by the federal courts. (AP ...

Dear (Juris)Prudence, Sure, the new administration cannot wave a magic wand and end birthright citizenship by executive order. And any attempts would require at least a little time until the ...

Citizenship by investment programs offer the possibility for high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and investors to secure dual citizenship in exchange for a real estate investment, business ...