The CBA’s Immigration Law Section supports automatic citizenship by descent beyond the first generation when a strong ...

Canadian attorneys report a surge in Americans seeking to renounce their U.S. citizenship, as monthly inquiries received in ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Immigration lawyers on both sides of the border are seeing an interest in people wanting to cut ties with the U.S. Green, a lawyer in Toronto, says the number of people looking for a path to Canadian ...

It is an act of economic warfare.” Freeland is the primary contender to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation in January. Freeland previously served as ...

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 defined citizens and also recognized birthright citizenship. Subsequently in 1982, in Plyler v. Doe, the US Supreme Court reaffirmed birthright ...

Citizenship in India is governed by the Citizenship Act, 1955. Till June 1987, India followed the ‘jus soli’ principle granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in India. Subsequently ...

(Congress did not pass the Indian Citizenship Act, which finally granted birthright citizenship to American Indians, until 1924.) Our debate today thus depends on whether, in 1868, aliens -- legal ...

When US President Donald Trump signed a recent executive order that would deny citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, he took aim at what he suggested ...