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When USCIS Won’t Act: Your Legal Options for a Stalled Naturalization Application

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years of work and patience. So when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receives your Form N-400 and then goes silent, the frustrati...

Recent Trends in N-400 Applications for U.S. Citizenship- Increased Scrutiny, Longer Adjudications

Excerpt: The Case for Denaturalization

A vigorous, ongoing, and unapologetic commitment to denaturalization is an important part of the effort to restore integrity to U.S. citizenship. It is not about restricting citize...

I have an employment-based green card and am getting ready to file for citizenship. Since obtaining my green card, I hav...

Answer Generally speaking, you are not required to be working in the same field at the time of applying for naturalization as when you received your green card. However, in some ci...

The case for denaturalization

If the United States is serious about giving citizenship to worthy immigrants, we also need to be serious about revoking it from the unworthy.More than 800,000 immigrants became Am...

British Naturalisation UK Guide 2026

Becoming a British citizen through naturalisation represents the final legal stage of the UK immigration journey for many migrants who have built their lives, careers and families...

Allegiance, Birthright, and Citizenship

When the Supreme Court, on April 1, heard arguments about birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, the justices focused on jurisdiction. The Fourteenth Amendment provides: “All...

NYT: Trump II Push to Denaturalize Hundreds of Foreign-Born Citizens

It’s high time DOJ — and DHS for that matter — took the issue of fraud and deliberate omissions during the naturalization application process seriously, if for no other reasons tha...

Naturalization Delayed? Take Legal Action!

If 120 calendar days have passed since your naturalization interview without a decision from USCIS, you have a right to sue USCIS in federal court! Contact Murthy Law Firm to see i...

If citizenship can be taken away, was it ever real?

Igrew up in a home of immigrants from Colombia, Cuba and Peru, and ours was a mixed-status family. Some family members became naturalized citizens thanks to legislation for refugee...

SCAM Act Restores Integrity to U.S. Citizenship

American citizenship is a covenant between the people of this nation, and when it is obtained through fraud, it is null and void.

2025 was one of most volatile years ever for U.S. naturalizations

The year began with many people becoming U.S. citizens, but by December, fewer people were doing so, driven by ramped-up scrutiny of applications and eroding trust in the system.

Born American

We look at an important case before the Supreme Court.

Trump Administration Wants to Strip 12 Immigrants of U.S. Citizenship

The targeted Americans are accused of misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past.

New Crackdown Could Strip “Hundreds” Of Americans Of U.S. Citizenship

Something has shifted quietly in the way the U.S. government treats its own citizens. Not immigrants waiting for green cards, not visa holders living on borrowed time – but people...

Citizenship on the Line: The Constitutional Fight That Could Redefine Who Is an American

A growing legal and political challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is putting birthright citizenship, and the definition of who is American, unde...

Trump Administration Temporarily Moves USCIS Lawyers to DOJ to Speed Denaturalization Cases

The Trump administration is expanding its push to revoke citizenship from some naturalized Americans accused of obtaining it through fraud or other ineligibility, with immigration...

U.S. leads interest by wide margin in getting Canadian citizenship by descent

OTTAWA — A new law expanding eligibility for Canadian citizenship led to an initial uptick in applications from a handful of countries including the United States, the United Kingd...

Where Americans are finding the documents needed to prove Canadian citizenship by descent

This spring, thousands of Americans are requesting copies of official documents from vital statistics offices and archives to prove their eligibility for Canadian citizenship by de...

Birthright Citizenship and the Making of Citizens

Trump's efforts to abolish birthright citizenship raise larger questions about blood, soil, and how we become Americans

Allegiance, Birthright and Citizenship

The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.

What You Need to Know About Tribal Sovereignty and Birthright Citizenship

Tribal sovereignty has always existed, long before the United States was formed, and Tribal Nations continue to govern their own lands and citizens today. Yet recent legal debates...

DOJ Seeks to Strip Naturalized U.S. Citizenship from Immigrants Accused of Murder, Terrorism, Marriage Fraud

On Friday, officials with the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they are seeking to denaturalize 12 naturalized American citizens accused of crimes like murder, terrorism,...

[Video] Citizenship By Ancestry: Why Is Now The Time To Explore Your Roots?

What is citizenship by ancestry (CBA) and why is now the perfect time to explore it? CBA, also known as citizenship-by-descent, is an increasingly popular and affordable means to...