Becoming a U.S. citizen is a lengthy process. Dozens of people were stopped from doing the final step on Dec. 9 in Indianapolis. See all the steps they had completed.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For Jorge Lopez, the legal path to U.S. citizenship has been a decades-long journey filled with setbacks, paperwork and patience. RELATED: Federal judge says immigrants in ...

A once-straightforward path to U.S. citizenship has become fraught as federal officials cancel many naturalization interviews ...

Nearly a million legal immigrants applied to become U.S. citizens in the last year. Surge in citizenship applications has led to backlog at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Wait times ...

Immigrants from certain "high-risk" countries on the verge of gaining their citizenship are being turned away by federal ...

Tens of thousands of Massachusetts immigrants may find out sooner rather than later about the status of their naturalization requests. Pointing to progress in processing millions of naturalization ...

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal government has more closely scrutinized the arrival of foreigners. The agency once known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service is now called the Bureau of U.S ...

Sheyla Muñoz Garcia, center, and her five children smile next to U.S. Chief Judge Peter Welte after a naturalization ceremony at the Bismarck federal courthouse on June 27, 2025. (Michael ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Monday that the number of places overseas where noncitizen service members and their families can be naturalized has been cut from 23 to ...

At least 17 Asian countries are known to have naturalized foreign-born athletes without ethnic heritage to play in FIBA-sanctioned competitions. The naturalization process may or may not be tedious.

I might be the 300 millionth American. This is the kind of thought — pretty much the only thought — that can sustain you throughout a very long naturalization ceremony, most of which is spent waiting.