Citizenship

Jewish same-sex couple sues State Department after infant daughter denied citizenship

The 6-month-old’s biological parent is a U.S. citizen but is short of the residency requirement needed to pass on citizenship.

By Marcy Oster September 17, 2019 9:37 am

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attending a cabinet meeting in Munich, Germany on April 11, 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Michael Lucan)

Germany facilitates citizenship for families who fled Nazi regime

The two decrees affect several hundred Jews who had their applications declined because their father was not born in Germany but their mother was not.

August 30, 2019 8:46 am

State Department appeals decision granting US citizenship to child of Jewish same-sex couple

One son of an Israeli and an American was given citizenship, the other is in legal limbo.

May 7, 2019 2:02 pm

Palestinian man with US citizenship ordered deported over terror conviction in Israel

By Marcy Oster April 29, 2019 6:50 am

10 American baseball players become Israeli citizens to help nation’s team make the Olympics

October 18, 2018 10:51 am

Jewish same-sex couple sues US for denying citizenship to one of their twins

January 24, 2018 11:38 am

Palestinian ex-terrorist to be deported from US for lying on citizenship application

August 18, 2017 9:46 am

Israeli court revokes citizenship of Arab-Israeli man over terrorism conviction

August 7, 2017 10:51 am

Greece law allows descendants of Holocaust survivors to apply for citizenship

March 19, 2017 11:59 am

New trial ordered for convicted Palestinian terrorist who lied on U.S. citizenship application

December 7, 2016 12:23 pm

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