May 17th, 20220DETROIT — The International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit (IIMD) is offering free citizenship legal services to Metro Detroiters through a grant from the federal government.
The institute is encouraging anyone thinking of applying for citizenship to reach out to it. Immigration legal staff will assist people applying for...
May 17th, 20190The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is seeking to remove the means-tested benefits option from its fee waiver request. The proposed change was put up for public comment on the Federal Register with an end-date for comments of May 6.
The USCIS considers waiving a fee for certain applications or petitions when the...
December 8th, 20180DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For Jim Pawlukiewicz, a Vietnam veteran who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, the immigration and citizenship process was a 50-year nightmare of never-ending bureaucracy, red tape and roadblocks.
However, Pawlukiewicz, 72, finally had his breakthrough this May thanks in large part to his simple refusal to...
November 4th, 20180WASHINGTON — With congressional elections a week away, President Trump said on Tuesday that he'll seek to scrap the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens and illegal immigrants as he tries again to dramatically reshape immigration policies.
Reviving his support for a legally questionable theory, Trump told...
October 4th, 20180PRINCETON N.J. — According to a national survey released Wednesday by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, just one in three Americans can pass a multiple choice test consisting of content taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test.
Only 13 percent of individuals surveyed knew when the Constitution was ratified, most of...
April 13th, 20180DEARBORN – Even as the city looks to a new dawn of economic prosperity with a wide range of major investments, it could be dealt a blow two in two years.
Residents, city officials and community advocates are anxious about the implications of a proposed question on the 2020 Census that would ask people if they’re citizens.
They...
April 6th, 20180DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On March 30, a day that marked the birth of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch NAACP, spoke to a diverse, capacity crowd about "the voice of human justice" at the Islamic Institute of America.
Anthony commemorated Imam Ali’s legacy of...
April 6th, 20180NEW YORK — A group of states and cities sued the Trump administration to stop it from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens.
The lawsuit by 17 states, Washington D.C. and six cities challenged what they called last week’s “unconstitutional and arbitrary” decision by the Department of Commerce,...
March 27th, 20180New York state’s attorney general said on Tuesday he will lead a multistate lawsuit to try to stop the federal government from asking people whether they are citizens in the 2020 Census, arguing the move will discourage immigrants from participating.
The U.S. Commerce Department, which runs the Census Bureau, announced on Monday that...
January 26th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million "Dreamers," young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.
The White House presented the offer as a major concession aimed at attracting...
June 16th, 20170LANSING — Activists and local officials made their final impassioned plea before a Michigan House committee passed bills on Wednesday, June 7 that prevents any city or county from passing "sanctuary" laws.
The two bills, introduced by State Reps. Pamela Hornberger (R-Chesterfield Twp.) and Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain), passed in...
