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Dual citizenship policies

The policies and debates surrounding dual citizenship, including birthright citizenship and the eligibility for U.S. citizenship.

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Jan 16, 2026
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When did Melania Trump become a U.S. citizen and how do naturalization dates relate to a child's citizenship?

Melania Trump became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006, with multiple contemporaneous reports specifying July 2006 as the month she completed naturalization . That timing has no bearing on the U.S. c...

Jan 17, 2026
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What was Donald Trump’s citizenship status at birth under 1946 immigration law?

Donald J. Trump was born in Queens, New York, in 1946 and, under the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment and the prevailing nationality statutes that incorporated it, was a United States citizen at bi...

Jan 26, 2026
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Trump's nationality

is an American national by birth: he was born in , on June 14, 1946, and official White House and historical biographies state his birthplace and parentage . His family background is of and Scottish d...

Jan 26, 2026

Was Barron Trump born in 2006 and where was he born?

Yes—multiple mainstream biographical and news sources record ’s birthdate as March 20, 2006, and his birthplace as . Those contemporary profiles and news stories consistently report the same facts whi...

Jan 26, 2026

What methods do US authorities use to estimate the number of undocumented immigrants?

estimates of the undocumented (or unauthorized) immigrant population rest on a mix of survey “residual” calculations, administrative flow accounting, microdata bottom‑up reconstructions and alternativ...

Jan 27, 2026

How have U.S. courts historically interpreted the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

The of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to overturn and secure birthright citizenship for formerly enslaved people, and courts have since read it as embedding a broad jus soli rule while carving o...

Jan 27, 2026

Has birth right citizenship run its course in the U.S. and the New World?

The century-plus legal practice of granting citizenship to nearly everyone born on soil now faces an acute constitutional and political assault: the fast-tracked review of the Trump administration’s e...