Citizenship
State Dept. Update on U.S. Citizenship Transmission and Assisted Reproductive Technology – Homeland Security Today
Recognizing the advances in assisted reproductive technology (ART), the State Department is updating our interpretation and application of Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which establishes the requirements for acquisition of U.S. citizenship at birth. Children born abroad to parents, at least one of whom is a U.S. citizen and who are …
Boris Johnson’s father says he’ll seek French citizenship, hours before Brexit
Johnson, a former Member of the European Parliament, told French radio station RTL he “will always be European” in an interview aired on Thursday. “It’s not a question of becoming French. If I understood correctly, I am French,” he told RTL in French, highlighting his family’s link with the country. “My mother was born in …
Boris Johnson offers refuge, British citizenship path for nearly 3 million Hong Kong people
London’s move, which Johnson said he would implement when China formally enacts the security law, could emerge as among the most significant ramifications of Beijing’s effort to undercut Hong Kong’s freedoms and bring the city more closely under the Communist Party’s authoritarian rule. It would potentially grant British residency and working rights to up to …
Citizenship Act protests: Thousands held across India for defying ban
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Police are detaining protesters in Delhi and Bangalore Indian police have detained thousands who defied a ban on protests against a controversial new citizenship law. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, and throughout the states of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Mobile data services are …
SC Issues Notice On Petitions Challenging Citizenship Amendment Act
Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to all petitions challenging the Constitutional Validity of Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019. The Bench comprising CJI Bobde and Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant asked the Centre to file the response by the second week of January. The Petitions contended that the Act, which liberalizes and fast-tracks grant of …
India protests: Has Narendra Modi has gone too far with citizenship bill?
The Prime Minister, whose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was re-elected in a landslide victory earlier this year, has dominated Indian politics since first sweeping to power in 2014. While he has been hailed for his efforts to bring prosperity to poorer regions and root out corruption, his emphasis on empowering India’s Hindu majority has raised …
Citizenship Amendment Act: Delhi police in ‘shooting’ row as protests spread
Image copyright AFP Image caption Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the bill outside Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Ahmedabad on Monday Indian police have denied shooting people during protests in Delhi – as anger at a citizenship law spreads across the country. At least three people said they were shot, but …
India police storm Jamia, AMU to break citizenship law protests | News
More than 100 students have been injured in India after baton-wielding police charged at them and fired tear gas at two federally-run universities where students were holding anti-citizenship law protests. Students in capital New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Uttar Pradesh state’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) had been protesting since the new law was …
Stripping people of citizenship makes the world less safe, not more | Ben Doherty | Opinion
Disowning one’s own citizens is back in vogue for governments around the world. Denationalisation is an old punishment. The Greek city states called it “banishment”, expulsion beyond the city walls. The Romans practised “deportatio”, where an unwanted person was physically taken, usually in chains, to the outer edges of the empire, and left, condemned to …
Nearly 1,000 people receive help at Anaheim’s Health & Citizenship Fair – Orange County Register
At the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend, visitors could have had a tooth pulled, gotten a head-to-toe physical, acquired a new pair of prescription glasses and received legal advice on becoming a United States citizen … all without leaving the building or spending a penny. Dozens of healthcare professionals and legal experts volunteered their …
