The US Justice Department has launched its largest-ever coordinated denaturalisation drive, filing complaints against 25 naturalised citizens from 17 countries, including India. Among them is 65-year-old Narinder Singh, accused of using fraudulent identities since 1996 to gain US admission and citizenship in 2008.
A 94-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh has renounced her US citizenship and applied for restoration of Indian citizenship, expressing her wish to spend her final days in her native village. The application has been forwarded to the Ministry of Home Affairs
US lawmakers and immigration advocates criticised the Trump administration’s new policy requiring green card applicants to apply from their home countries. Critics warned the move could disrupt families, impact skilled workers, and hurt America’s competitiveness while triggering legal challenges against the decision
The Trump administration plans to significantly increase denaturalisation of US citizens, targeting fraud, criminal links, and other categories. USCIS guidance sets quotas of 100–200 cases per month, raising concerns over fear, politicisation, and impact on law-abiding naturalised Americans
Mathura Sridharan, an Indian-origin Deputy Solicitor General and U.S. citizen, has been appointed as Ohio’s 12th Solicitor General. Despite her stellar academic and legal background, her appointment drew xenophobic backlash online, with users wrongly questioning her citizenship and mocking her appearance.
By altering a long-standing pillar of US immigration law, Trump’s move has the potential to reshape global perceptions of citizenship, migration and opportunity
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Thursday that it will select the additional registrations from the previously submitted electronic registrations using a random selection process.
The student must be a US citizen with a valid Social Security Number and prove his need for financial support to get funds for college education Given that many of our readers have children who are US citizens and are interested in pursuing their undergraduate (Bachelor’s program) studies in the United States, in our special […]
On December 1 last year, USCIS implemented a revised naturalisation civics test, called the 2020 civics test, as part of a decennial test review and update process.
The Biden administration will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of the US' immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog, it said.
This new selection process would incentivise employers to offer higher wages or petition for positions requiring higher skills and higher-skilled workers instead of using the programme to fill relatively lower-paid vacancies.
