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

Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship is a cruel repudiation of American values. For the first time in generations, immigrant families across the United States now ...

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

The Trump administration asserts that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and ...

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

In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.

Citizenship around the world rests largely on two concepts, either alone or in combination: jus soli, or "right of soil," based on one's birth in a given place, and jus sanguinis, "right of blood ...

She’d learned from a friend that Trump planned to end birthright citizenship, right around the time she’d ... that it happened so quickly. … My world fell apart,” says Liza, a grad student ...

The U.S. is one of around 30 countries that follows the principle of ... What does it mean to not have birthright citizenship? Across the world, birthright citizenship is not considered the norm.

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

According to World Population Review, in 2024, at least 33 countries have birthright citizenship, predominantly in North America and Latin America. The United States and Canada are the only two ...