A federal appeals court in San Francisco said President Donald Trump’s limits on birthright citizenship are unconstitutional and must be blocked during litigation, dealing the latest setback to the administration’s immigration crackdown.

Defending birthright citizenship encapsulates a broader struggle over national identity, the meaning of citizenship and democratic values.

The US citizenship test, officially known as the Naturalization test, is an examination that an applicant has to take to become a naturalized American citizen. This test is not for green card holders unless they are applying for citizenship.

The Supreme Court recently addressed the litigation not on the merits of birthright citizenship, but on whether district courts could issue so-called universal injunctions applying to all parts of the United States. The court said, no, lower courts cannot ...

It was recently revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees USCIS, was looking at changing the current lottery-style system for H-1B selection and replacing it with a "weighted selection process" that would help with Edlow's approach.