This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 12/30/2024 "On December 15, 2022, DHS published a Federal Register Notice entitled “Trial Testing of Redesigned Naturalization Test for Naturalization Applications,” which...
USCIS, Nov. 14, 2024 "Policy Highlights - Clarifies that for purposes of determining whether an applicant for naturalization meets the requirement of being lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, USCIS considers whether a naturalization...
Dan Hayes, The Athletic, Aug. 12, 2024 "In applying for U.S. citizenship at age 78, the latest chapter in his fascinating life, Rod Carew used the same approach that made him one of the best pure hitters in Major League Baseball history. The Hall of Famer...
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL, THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, AND MARGARET STOCK IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES AND OF AFFIRMANCE - filed Oct. 9, 2024 "Amici submit this brief to emphasize the lengthy and well-established...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Sept. 9, 2024 "At the naturalization interview the noncitizen applicant could face a rude shock if the examiner reveals that they made a misrepresentation in a long forgotten application for an immigration benefit filed in the distant past...
USA v. Muñoz "Three years after becoming a United States citizen, Melchor Munoz pleaded guilty to a drug-conspiracy offense, admitting under oath that he began trafficking marijuana in 2008. The government filed this action to denaturalize Munoz under...
Azumah v. USCIS - Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Judge Thacker joined. Judge Richardson wrote a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. ARGUED: Benjamin Ross Winograd, IMMIGRANT &...
USCIS, June 12, 2024 "USCIS is issuing guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual that interprets that the confidentiality protections under 8 U.S.C. 1367 end at naturalization, which will allow naturalized U.S. citizens previously protected under 8 U.S.C. 1367...
DoD, USCIS, July 223 "This memorandum of understanding (MOU) and relevant appendices constitutes an agreement between the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
USA v. Wang "This is a denaturalization proceeding in which Plaintiff United States of America seeks to revoke Defendant Chengyu Wang's citizenship in a four-count complaint alleging that Wang's naturalization was illegally procured and that his...
USCIS, Aug. 25, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing updated policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding access to voter registration services during administrative naturalization ceremonies."
USCIS, May 4, 2023 "On December 1, 2020, USCIS implemented a revised naturalization civics test (“2020 civics test”). However, USCIS reverted to using the 2008 test on March 1, 2021. For a brief period of time, USCIS offered both the 2020 and...
Julie Watson, Associated Press, Feb. 8, 2023 "After fighting in Afghanistan, former U.S. Army soldier Mauricio Hernandez Mata returned home with post-traumatic stress, which he says eventually led to getting in trouble with the law and being deported to...
USCIS, Dec. 9, 2022 "Effective Dec. 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to allow USCIS to automatically extend the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (commonly called Green Cards) for lawful...
USCIS, Apr. 4, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the types of venues USCIS may use for administrative naturalization ceremonies and the considerations for accepting offers...