An article by Laureen Scharps (AIWC Frankfurt)
Millions of eligible US voters from numerous states have lost their right to vote due to voter suppression during the last five years. In Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, the US Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, undoing the preclearance provision and removing the ability of the federal government to place...
An article by Laureen Scharps (AIWC Frankfurt)
The deadline to register to vote is approaching. Your local election official should receive your application at least 45 days before the midterm elections, to be held on November 6, 2018. That means you need to submit your application now or by early September the latest.
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1848 saw revolution sweep across Europe and the first convention for women’s rights – the Seneca Falls Convention – in the United States. Reformers Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first planned a convention in 1840, after both women had been refused seats as delegates to the World Antislavery Convention in London. Various things intervened (including...
As summer travel time approaches, this is just a reminder for those traveling to the United States with non-US citizen family/friends.
As of April 1, 2016, in order to enter the United States and its Territories, it is required that the non-US citizen traveler have a biometric...
Only addressing if the President was within the power of his office to issue this order, the Supreme Court upheld the travel ban which targeted passport holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. In the Executive Order signed on Friday, 27 January, 2017, US borders were closed to those carrying passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
Expeditious naturalization, the so-called "grandparent clause" - If you want to confer US citizenship on your grandchildren, please refer to the following.
What is expeditious naturalization? It is a way provided by Section 322 of the INA (Immigration and Naturalization Act) for a grandchild born abroad of a U.S. citizen parent to become a naturalized U.S. citizen through a living grandparent or...