Social Media Ideas for American Citizenship

Who gets to be American

For more than 150 years, birthright citizenship has meant that almost every child born on American soil begins life as an American citizen, regardless of where their parents came f...

Americans whose Canadian ancestors died before 1947 may still have a citizenship by descent claim

Canadian citizenship did not exist as a legal status until January 1, 1947. Before that date, people born in Canada held the status of British subject. If the ancestor your claim r...

The century-old fight to test birthright citizenship

As SCOTUSblog readers are well aware, on June 30, a majority of justices struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Much of this de...

Georgia Naturalization Ceremonies Put Focus on U.S. Citizenship Process This October

Virguez Law Encourages Georgia Permanent Residents Considering Citizenship to Understand Application, Interview and Testing Requirements

Democracy’s ‘most important office’

Citizenship is a cornerstone of democracy. Today, how citizenship is interpreted and who becomes a citizen have been pivotal topics of debates in Western democracies.

Did your Canadian-born ancestor become American? The government’s own training example says you may have a claim to Cana...

If your grandparent was born in Canada and later became an American, you may be a Canadian citizen by descent. You may have been one since the day you were born. Canada’s immigrati...

A Canadian law quietly turned generations of upstate New Yorkers into dual citizens

In Clinton County, New York, 6,988 residents told the U.S. Census Bureau they have Canadian or French Canadian ancestry. The county holds 78,493 people, working out to one in every...

Americans with a Canadian parent are already Canadian citizens – even if they’ve never set foot in the country

If one of your parents was a Canadian citizen at the moment you were born, you’re probably a Canadian citizen right now — even if you’ve never lived in Canada, held a Canadian pass...

Does your ancestry make you an American-Canadian dual citizen today? A new free tool checks your family line and lists t...

Canada’s citizenship department had about 136,000 proof-of-citizenship applications awaiting a decision in September 2026. Among the source countries, the U.S. was by far the large...

Voters: It’s Your Right And Duty As American Citizens To Have Your Say On Trump’s America This November

Citizenship Month 2026 is a reminder that power is ultimately in the hands of American voters For Barbara Colombo, Hussein Amuri and many other new Americans, observances during Ci...

US citizenship applicants face renewed neighbourhood scrutiny under new USCIS guidance

Canada is fast-tracking proof of citizenship applications for those studying in the country

Eligible students who are planning to study in Canada are being fast-tracked in their proof of Canadian citizenship applications. In some cases, they may be able to receive a citiz...

Canada is updating its immigration system. But for Americans with Canadian ancestry, citizenship has never been more dir...

On October 16, Canada announced major upcoming changes to Express Entry, the online system it uses to select skilled workers for permanent residence. For Americans who have ever we...

Why prudent American families are pursuing Canadian citizenship by descent

In late July, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research surveyed 1,165 American adults. Of those, 72% said America is heading in the wrong direction. The same po...

'I’m a citizen': 74 people take Oath of Allegiance, become U.S. citizens in Louisville

Seventy-four people from around the world now share a new title: American citizen.

Even as the US-Canada trade war escalates, many Americans are applying for Canadian citizenship

On August 27, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America.’ Within hours, Prime Minister Mark Carn...

Can American records prove Canadian citizenship by descent?

A death certificate from Michigan can name your great-grandmother’s birthplace as Ontario. On its own, it won’t establish that she held Canadian citizenship. American records do re...

Canada’s proof of citizenship finalizations picked up in August

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) finalized 3,955 proof of citizenship applications in August, up from 2,420 in July. It’s the strongest month since Canada’s immi...

Trump Passport Proposal Targets Birth Tourism Through New Citizenship Checks

The Trump administration is proposing new passport checks for U.S.-born children as part of its broader crackdown on birth tourism, potentially requiring parents to prove their cit...

Can a criminal record affect a Canadian citizenship by descent claim?

Since Bill C-3 came into force on December 15, 2025, more than ten thousand Americans with Canadian ancestry have been applying for Canadian citizenship certificates every month. M...

Justice Department Seeks To Strip Citizenship From People Of The U.S.A.

Justice Department intensified its scrutiny of American status with a sweeping challenge affecting dozens of citizens.

Born outside Canada between 1977 and 1981? You may have lost Canadian citizenship at 28, and got it back without knowing

In a kitchen drawer in Seattle sits a document Dana hasn’t looked at in years. It’s a Canadian citizenship certificate, issued when she was a baby. As far as she knew, this documen...

How Minors Derive Citizenship Through Their Parents

The recent news about Rep. Ilhan Omar has focused attention on how an erstwhile alien minor with a green card would have automatically derived citizenship based on the naturalizati...

US seeks to revoke citizenship of 2 China-born men convicted in Beijing-linked cases

The US Justice Department (DOJ) is seeking to revoke the citizenship of a former Navy sailor convicted of spying for China and a Florida man convicted of conspiring to act as an ag...