citizenship applications

Updates to the U.S. citizenship test will require applicants to answer more questions than before and could slow down the number of tests administered each day.

Becoming a U.S. citizen may get a lot more expensive, and groups are urging legal permanent residents to apply as soon as possible, NBC News reported. The Trump administration wants to increase the cost of citizenship applications by 83% for roughly 9 million immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens. The administration is also seeking to transfer $207.6 million from U.S....

Colorado officials are warning legal immigrants that working in the state’s marijuana industry could jeopardize their legal status, after two people said they were denied U.S. citizenship because of their jobs. Although 10 states broadly allow its use and sale, federal law still bans marijuana and immigration authorities say they are bound to follow that prohibition when reviewing citizenship applications....

Immigrant rights groups filed suit Monday in Los Angeles against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over an allegedly intentional slowdown by the Trump administration in the processing of naturalization applications.

The now-disbanded voting integrity commission launched by the Trump administration to investigate the 2016 presidential election uncovered no evidence to support the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud, according to an analysis of administration documents released. In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who are both Republicans and led the commission, Maine...

Immigrants who are legally in the country and have applied to become U.S. citizens are having to wait as much as 20 months for their applications to be processed. Since President Donald Trump was elected, the backlog of pending applications has “skyrocketed,” according to NBC News.  There were nearly 730,000 pending naturalization applications as of the end of last year,…......

A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would “never” abandon his White House bid, facing an intensifying backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who called on him to quit the race following the release of his vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape....
Trump declared he would not yield the GOP nomination under any circumstances. “Zero chance I’ll quit,”...