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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is prompting lawsuits alleging he lacks the legal ground to end the right enshrined in the Constitution.

Birth tourism is the practice of traveling to another country for the purpose of giving birth there. America's jus soli legal principle means babies born in the CNMI get US citizenship. Liana ...