Dozens of Indians, most of them Muslim, have been killed by police in weeks of nationwide protests against a new citizenship law. Their families believe they were singled out because of their faith.
Access to some genealogical records kept by the U.S. government may get a lot more expensive, especially for those seeking family records for immigrants from the late 1800s to mid-1900s.
After ruling on Thursday that anyone born in American Samoa should be recognized as a U.S. citizen, the same judge on Friday decided to put the order on hold until the issue is resolved on appeal.
Trump officials say a new policy on citizenship for children born abroad affects only a small fraction of U.S. service members and government workers. But the change touched off a major backlash.
Nevada has joined a coalition of 15 states and several major cities opposing a lawsuit by the state of Alabama that would have the U.S. Census count only U.S. citizens.
Some 4 million people, many Muslim and impoverished, were excluded from a 2018 official register of citizens. Photographer CK Vijayakumar visited Assam to learn more about the challenges they face.
The northeastern state of Assam left some 4 million people, mostly Muslims, off its citizenship register last year. At the same time, India is seeking to offer citizenship to non-Muslim foreigners.
The children were born to two married, same-sex couples with a U.S. citizen parent and foreign parent. The children were denied citizenship because they're genetically tied to only the foreign parent.
"We have never read a statute to strip citizenship from someone who met the legal criteria for acquiring it," Justice Elena Kagan wrote. "We will not start now."
Join NPR's Michel Martin and WVIA in Scranton, Pennsylvania for a night of conversation and entertainment as we discuss the meaning of an active citizen.
People born in Puerto Rico have been counted as U.S. citizens since 1917, but they can't vote for president and don't have voting representation in Congress.
It's illegal for immigration officials to detain U.S. citizens. But an NPR analysis of public records found that in an eight-year period, some 1,500 people who were held turned out to be Americans.
Maybe we've been so obsessed with our own presidential election that we've missed other people's elections. The French are, in fact, going to the polls in less than a week.
The Dreamers - the group of young people who came to the United States as children without documentation - are now in their teens and twenties. They cannot return back to their home countries but they cannot win citizenship here. What is the next step? What is Plan B for winning recognition for the Dreamers. Some of the new generation of Nevada activists tell us what they're planning.
