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Canada’s government has lost an attempt to ban the practice of wearing face veils while swearing the oath of citizenship. Zunera Ishaq is a 29-year-old woman with devout Muslim beliefs. She came to Canada from Pakistan in 2008 and refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony because she would have to remove her niqab. Prime Minister Stephen Harper government’s rule banning face coverings at such ceremonies was earlier found unlawful by the Federal Court. …

There are certain opportunities that are so rare and so special, you'd be nuts not to grab them. This is how I ended up at the Phillip Burton Federal Building on Friday afternoon watching my friend Nadir be sworn in as an American citizen. Born in Portugal and arriving in California at age 9, Nadir has spent the past decade working towards his citizenship. Now 26 years old, it's not like Nadir's been lounging around, twiddling his thumbs, waiting for a passport. Nadir put himself through college, he's currently working in Washington DC for a Congressman and next year, he'll...

It doesn't happen often, so mark the calendar. The bureaucracy has actually bowed to the wishes of the American people. Somebody or bodies in the new Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) planned to celebrate Constitution Day on September 17 by changing the oath of citizenship which new citizens take when they are naturalized. The plan was to make it immediately effective, using it at an immigrant swearing-in ceremony and publishing it in the Federal Register on the same day. Fortunately, this covert mischief was discovered in time and denounced by the American Legion, former Attorney General Edwin Meese,...

Ask-Imam.com > Islamic Politics > Question 8471 from United States  To become a citizen of US one has to take an oath of allegiance. is it ok to take the oath.The oath of allegiance is as follows: I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will...

It doesn't happen often, so mark the calendar. A bureaucracy has actually bowed to the wishes of the people. Somebody in the new Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services planned to celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 17 by changing the oath of citizenship that new citizens take when they are naturalized. The plan was to make it immediately effective, using it at an immigrant swearing-in ceremony and publishing it in the Federal Register on the same day. Fortunately, this covert mischief was discovered in time and denounced by the American Legion, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and Sen. Lamar Alexander,...

Protests over the recently unveiled revised oath to be taken by new U.S. citizens has immigration officials working on yet another rewrite. Complaints from those who criticized the weakening of the portion pledging to serve in the military, as well as the elimination of a promise to bear arms, apparently has not fallen on deaf ears, the Associated Press reported. According to the report, immigration officials announced the new oath earlier this month, saying they were revising the language for the first time in 50 years. Officials hoped to remove such archaic language as the promise to "renounce and abjure...

<p>Federal officials have backed away from rewriting the Oath of Allegiance taken by new citizens, after criticism from Congress and veterans who say the new pledge places less emphasis on defending the Constitution.</p> <p>Public reaction to the Oath has been critical &#8212; in particular, language that calls for the defense, not support, of the Constitution "where and if lawfully required."</p>

WASHINGTON — Government officials who had planned to unveil a more modern citizenship oath next week are going back to the drawing board. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services has canceled plans to use the oath for the first time at a swearing-in ceremony in Washington on Wednesday, a spokesman for the agency, Russ Knocke, said on Friday. Eduardo Aguirre Jr., director of bureau said last week that his agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, wanted the language of the oath to be less arcane so it would be more meaningful to immigrants. In the...

ASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — Government officials who had planned to unveil a more modern citizenship oath next week are going back to the drawing board.The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services has canceled plans to use the oath for the first time at a swearing-in ceremony in Washington on Wednesday, a spokesman for the agency, Russ Knocke, said on Friday.Eduardo Aguirre Jr., director of bureau said last week that his agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, wanted the language of the oath to be less arcane so it would be more meaningful to immigrants.In the current...

<p>Government officials who planned to unveil a more modern citizenship oath next week are going back to the drawing board.</p> <p>Citizenship and Immigration Services has canceled plans to use the oath for the first time at an immigrant swearing-in ceremony in Washington on Wednesday, a spokesman for the agency, Russ Knocke, told The Associated Press Friday.</p>

WASHINGTON-- The citizenship oath, which requires immigrants to renounce loyalty to "princes and potentates," is getting a makeover after a half-century. "It's being recrafted so it has more meaning to those who are raising their right hand and swearing," the oath, said Eduardo Aguirre Jr., director of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Homeland Security Department. The new oath will be made public on Sept. 17, on citizenship day.--Associated Press