We live in a wonderful world where dual citizenship is available in more and more places, but one country's criteria are ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship is increasingly rare, and with only a few exceptions, it persists only in countries with ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order called “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” aimed at ...

Around three dozen countries and the U.S. offer automatic citizenship to children born within their borders, regardless of their parents immigration status.

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on ...

The order, signed on Inauguration Day, could impact hundreds of thousands of people born in the country, according to one lawsuit.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of ...

Birthright citizenship, also known by the legal term jus soli – "right of the soil" in Latin – is enshrined in the 14th ...

Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.

Birth tourism, she said, is not only confined to Chinese tourists, as other nationals such as those from Russia, have taken advantage of America’s jus soli legal principle where being born in ...

Put simply, under Trump’s order, the children of most undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be US citizens, nor would the children ...

Attorneys general in 18 states sued Tuesday to block the order, saying birthright citizenship cannot be undone with the ...