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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issues policy guidance on “residence” requirements for acquiring citizenship Introduction Our latest update to the USCIS Policy Manual defines “residence” as it relates to citizenship for children of certain U.S. government employees and members of the U.S. armed forces who are employed or stationed outside the United States, to conform with the definition of residence in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This guidance rescinds previously established USCIS policy, which stated that certain children who were living outside the United States were considered “residing in” the United States. As a result, it changes the...

The American Civil Liberties Union announced Saturday evening that a federal court in New York had issued an emergency stay on President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The court’s decision, which will affect people who have been detained in airports, came after the ACLU and other activist groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of two Iraqis who were held at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as a result of the order. “I hope Trump enjoys losing. He’s going to lose so much we’re going to get sick and tired of...

  This column was first posted on June 1, 2010. In it I expressed the fear that a burqa could be used to conceal a terrorist − male or female − strapped with explosives. Some readers thought my fear was unreasonable, even bigoted. It wasn’t. Read “Terrorists in Drag: Bombs Beneath the Burqa” by Dr. Phyllis Chesler. Male terrorists have been captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere, disguised in burqas and loaded down with weapons and explosives. What is already happening there can happen here. http://cloud.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Picture-3.gif Meanwhile, in Britain there are concerns that Sharia courts are enforcing anti-woman decisions; in...

Russian spy Anna Chapman is to be banned from Britain on national security grounds. Home Secretary Theresa May will revoke her British citizenship and withdraw her British passport next week on the advice of MI5 and Government lawyers. The decision came as Ms Chapman was yesterday undergoing debriefing by Russian secret services on her spying activities in the West and her arrest by the FBI, following an emotional reunion with her family.... Chapman said that she wanted to return to live in London following her conviction in the US but, in addition to the Home Office probe, she is under...

Now are rough times. For all of us. This is where we stand: Liechtenstein/Saudi Arabia: Business as usual, minor sources of irritation Venuzuela: INRI - IN a moRon CommunIst we trust, that'll do the trick! Germany/Switzerland/Austria: High tax, some captial, medium sized car, can't afford fuel, decent house, nothing left of our former empires. USA: Moderate tax, nice eating out, nice car, heavy debt, some capital, some fuel, no home. Japan: Small tax, microscopic car, no future Italy, Spain: Heavy tax, small car + vespas, Fascist tradition, government debt, Catholicism, nice food Norway: Heavy tax, small car, dried cod (lutefisk),...

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was served with papers yesterday connected with the lawsuit filed more than two weeks ago in federal court in Philadelphia questioning his constitutional eligibility for the American presidency. Service was made at his Washington, D.C. Senate office at approximately 1:00 p.m. From a press release provided by filing attorney Philip Berg and available on his Web site: Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC)...

Representatives of Germany’s large Turkish community have criticized a new citizenship test that takes effect in September and are urging Chancellor Merkel’s government to allow Turkish-Germans to hold dual nationality. Kenan Kolat, chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany said in an interview with Cologne-based daily Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on Tuesday he was fundamentally opposed to a new citizenship test that will be introduced in September and test applicants' knowledge of the country’s history, politics and society. "We don’t find the test a good idea at all," Kolat said. The German government said last month it was introducing the test as...

(Well, IMO she's pretty enough to be Swedish, so perhaps the authorities are right.) "Malin Aass was shocked when Norwegian authorities refused to renew her passport and told her she was "not a Norwegian citizen." Several times a week, confused "Norwegians that are really Swedish" turn up at the Swedish embassy, shocked that despite holding Norwegian passports, they are citizens of Sweden."

AN alleged burglar, dubbed "the new piano man", has baffled police who have been unable to work out the man's name, age, nationality, or even his language. The origin of the mysterious prisoner alleged to have broken into the same house three times is proving a major headache for authorities. The man, who apparently speaks no English, is accused of breaking into the house near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, to wash and cook food, and is alleged to have stolen a sewing kit. But police have no idea where he is from, and have been completely unable to communicate. The new Piano...

The recent votes in France and the Netherlands against the proposed constitution of the European Union are not merely political phenomena. They represent significant actions in the development of Fourth Generation war. Why? Because the root cause of Fourth Generation war is a crisis of legitimacy of the state, and the two referenda saw the French and Dutch people rebel against their elites’ efforts to empty the state of its content. Understanding what happened in these two votes requires a counterintuitive mindset. Normally, we would think of elites as representing the state and the common people rebelling against the state....

Mexico-born U.S. citizens who missed their chance to reclaim their Mexican nationality last year can try again starting today. The Mexican government has decided to revive the doble nacionalidad, or dual nationality, program that it stopped in 2003. This time, the program will go on indefinitely. Candidates can apply at Mexican embassies and consulates, preferably by appointment, officials with the Mexican Consulate in El Paso said. The fee will be $14. El Pasoan Maria Caballero, 27, said she would stop by the consulate next week to check on the petition for dual nationality she started at the last minute last...

So there we have it: a Prime Minister who attacks a Muslim country with no provocation or apparent justification, a Home Secretary who believes there should be a 'test for Britishness', 17 BNP councillors and a racist police force. Does anyone mind if I don't pay my tax this year? What particularly concerned me about last Tuesday's BBC broadcast of The Secret Policeman was that it exposed a continuing trend, rather than isolated incidents of racism among new police recruits. Take PC Rob Pulling's statement, 'A dog born in a barn is still a dog; a Paki born in Britain...

<p>Some of the tens of thousands of Mexicans who were forced to renounce their nationality upon becoming U.S. citizens are scrambling to reclaim it this month at the Mexican consulates in San Jose and San Francisco.</p> <p>Faced with a March 20 deadline, some of these American citizens are applying for Mexican nationality so they can obtain a Mexican passport and take advantage of certain benefits should they or their children decide to return to their birth country.</p>

KUALA LUMPUR, November 10 (IslamOnline) - The Muslim leader accused of terror links with the al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Abu Bakar Bashir risks deportation to Malaysia, Singapore or the U.S. if he is stripped of his Indonesian nationality, sources said Sunday, November 10. Singapore and Malaysia have in the past urged Indonesia to arrest Bashir for his alleged role in terror activities on their soil. Basyir is accused by Singapore of being the spiritual leader of the JI while Malaysia has him high on the terror list allegedly for connections with the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM). The U.S....