Citizenship - Page 2

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from 13 Orthodox priests and several opposition politicians alleged to have ties to Russia.

A French mayor backed a proposal to allow non-EU foreigners to vote in local elections and stand for office, citing “social justice.”

A Swiss court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan woman having her Swiss passport stripped after she separated from her local husband just months after getting it and remarried a Lebanese man shortly after their divorce.

Syrians getting citizenship tripled in 2021 as many of those who arrived during the migrant crisis became eligible to claim nationality. 

The government revoked the nationality of 78 babies from Moroccan mothers who lied about the father of their child being Spanish. 

Turkish government authorities rejected the citizenship applications of Uyghur refugees fleeing genocide by China in occupied East Turkistan last year on the grounds they allegedly posed risks to Turkey’s “national security” or “social order,” Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.

A Danish court has sentenced 29-year-old Adam Touhou to six years in prison and to be stripped of his citizenship followed by deportation for recruiting for the Islamic State terror group.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), a founding member of the far-left “Squad” on Capitol Hill, declared Monday that all illegal immigrants in the United States should possess a pathway to citizenship.

The new Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl has called on the government to suspend granting citizenship to Turkish citizens and demanded stricter asylum rules.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday on MSNBC that citizens of foreign countries who have overstayed U.S.-issued visas should get an “earned pathway to citizenship” so they do not have to fear getting the coronavirus vaccine or dropping their kids off at school.

The Danish government has reached an agreement with several other major parties on citizenship that will prevent anyone given conditional and unconditional prison sentences from becoming citizens.

Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén has criticised a proposed language requirement to obtain Swedish citizenship, saying the proposal affects women and will increase segregation.

Shamima Begum, the teenager who joined ISIS and shocked with comments on beheading non-Muslims cannot return, the Supreme Court ruled.

Legislation introduced in both chambers of Congress on Thursday by Democrats and supported by the Biden administration would replace the term “alien” with “noncitizen” in existing federal immigration law.

A 36-year-old French woman claims that her abusive migrant husband used her in an attempt to obtain French citizenship so he could abandon her and her children and bring his African wife and family to France.

Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians must fulfill their obligations to the state but owe an even higher allegiance to God.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is tightening curbs against the legal immigration and naturalization of communists and other advocates of totalitarian political movements.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a USCIS rule to better fund immigration services for people seeking citizenship and asylum.

Five legal immigrants swore loyalty to the United States during the second night of the GOP convention, giving President Trump an opportunity to tout the incalculable value of U.S. citizenship and to emphasize the new immigrants’ duties to other Americans.

Senior Conservative MPs are calling for the repatriation of jihadi brides and their children, citing a human rights charity which claims many are victims of trafficking.

Four states, thus far, are helping President Trump’s administration get an accurate count of the American citizen population after the United States Supreme Court blocked such a question on the 2020 Census. 

Potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants may secure United States citizenship ahead of the 2020 presidential election, adding a bloc of new, first-time foreign-born voters to the electorate. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that France has not violated the human rights of five men who were stripped of their citizenship after terrorist convictions.

Over 18,000 people who came to Sweden during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis have been granted Swedish citizenship — and by extension EU citizenship — since being initially accepted for asylum status.

The British foreign secretary has said that the UK will extend visa rights to Hong Kongers if China implements its proposed ‘security’ law campaigners fear will be used to clamp down on pro-democracy demonstrations in the former British colony.

Protesters fought with police in New Delhi, India, on Monday over India’s highly controversial citizenship law. A policeman and two civilians identified as Muslims were killed just hours before the arrival of visiting U.S. President Donald Trump.

A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join ISIS lost a legal challenge Friday aimed at restoring her citizenship.

The Belgian Court of Appeal has ruled to remove the passports of six Islamic extremists convicted of terror offences in absentia in 2015 after they left the country to fight for jihadist groups in the Middle East.

India’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that security will be increased across the country, with all state security officials expected to remain on duty throughout the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, as protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) continue to escalate.

Although massive protests against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have dominated international media coverage, there have been some demonstrations in favor of the law.

Thousands of Muslims chanted “Remove Modi!” after Friday prayers at New Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque, calling for the removal of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a citizenship law that makes immigration easier for non-Muslims. 

Indian police made hundreds of arrests on Thursday to enforce a ban on protests imposed after the passage of a controversial law that makes it easier for refugees from neighboring Muslim-majority countries to become citizens if they faced religious persecution at home.

Senate Republicans and Democrats approved a defense budget for Fiscal Year 2020 after slipping into it an amnesty for nearly 1,000 Liberian nationals who will now be eligible for American citizenship.

Protests against India’s new citizenship law at Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday turned violent as over a hundred activists battled police.

Denmark has announced that another Islamic State member will have their passport and citizenship revoked in what has become the third case in just over a week. 

MIT is promoting the ideas of a professor that wants to abolish the concept of citizenship, which he claims is “racist” and “breeds intolerance.”