A divided Eleventh Circuit recently ruled against a Jamaican national’s claim to U.S. citizenship, holding that his mother’s ...

It is widely agreed that “subject to the jurisdiction” excluded the children of diplomats, Native Americans subject and with ...

Now that Elon Musk has assumed great power within the United States government, many are asking about his citizenship and where he was born.

Long journeys to United States citizenship reached their conclusions for some 200 Texans during a naturalization ceremony ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

The SAVE Act aims to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of US citizenship for voting ...

Her organization helps register people at citizenship ceremonies. Parbhoo said it brings back memories of when she became a naturalized citizen in 1984. “It catches me by the heart every time ...

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began ...

Federal laws reflected that bias as well, like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese people from entering the country and banned them all from becoming naturalized citizens.

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.

Scott Applewhite/AP Two federal judges have issued injunctions against implementing President Trump’s executive order interpreting the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause as denying birthright ...