NILA, NWIRP, June 11, 2020 "Applicants for U.S. citizenship who could not take the oath of allegiance to complete the last step of the citizenship process for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania yesterday...
CAIR, Jan. 5, 2020 "The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA) is assisting more than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans of all ages who were detained at length and questioned at the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Blaine...
Putting Americans First: A Statistical Case for Encouraging Rather than Impeding and Devaluing US Citizenship, by Donald Kerwin and Robert Warren, Center for Migration Studies, Dec. 11, 2019 "This article examines the ability of immigrants to integrate and...
Protect Democracy, Dec. 9, 2019 "On December 9, 2019, Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring USCIS from implementing changes that would limit access to citizenship for lawful permanent...
Laura Snapes, The Guardian, Nov. 11, 2019 " Neil Young is facing a delay in his application for US citizenship after honestly answering a question about his marijuana use. In a letter to fans posted on his website , the Canadian songwriter said that...
Obed Manuel, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 15, 2019 "It may be more than a full calendar year before the U.S. government confirms what Francisco Galicia has been saying since June -- that he’s a U.S. citizen. The Dallas-born 18-year-old high school senior...
Sophia Tareen, Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2019 "An Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2018 arrived back in Chicago Tuesday for a final chance at becoming a U.S. citizen and living in the city he has called home since boyhood. Federal immigration...
USCCR, Sept. 12, 2019 "The Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released its report, Citizenship Delayed: Civil Rights and Voting Rights Implications of the Backlog in Citizenship and Naturalization Applications . The Committee...
Obed Manuel, Dallas Morning News, July 22, 2019 "An 18-year-old Dallas-born U.S. citizen has been in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than three weeks, his attorney says. Now his family...
Raph Majma, Lindsey Wagner, Sabrina Fonseca, May 9, 2019 "Several months ago, our team set out to learn more about the variables that affect naturalization decisions. The number of presumed eligible to naturalize lawful permanent residents in the United...
At least two Colorado LPRs were denied naturalization "solely because of their cannabis industry employment." Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock wrote this letter dated April 3, 2019 to Attorney General Barr asking for "formal guidance from the U...
Cornell Law professor Stephen W. Yale-Loehr is quoted on CNN : "Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration lawyer and Cornell University professor, said that the situation is "not clear-cut." "It would depend on the facts, if the State Department argues...
NY v. Dept. of Commerce "[T]he Court concludes on the merits that Secretary Ross violated the APA in multiple independent ways. Most blatantly, Secretary Ross ignored, and violated, a statute that requires him, in circumstances like those here, to collect...
Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter, MPI, Oct. 24, 2018 - "As the timeline for launching the 2020 decennial census approaches fast, legal and political controversy surrounds the Trump administration’s inclusion of a question on citizenship status. The question...
Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr is professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School. He also is co-author of “ Immigration Law and Procedure ,” a 21-volume immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis. - An executive order cannot repeal birthright citizenship...