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9 Jan 2020, 7:47 am by Gail Whittemore
Two weeks later, the President ordered (E.O. 13880, July 11, 2019) the Census Bureau to instead compile citizenship data through existing government administrative records. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 10:46 am by Matthew B. Kaplan
The Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, which is responsible for determining who is a U.S. citizen, has an internal appeals process for persons who believe that their citizenship was improperly revoked, including persons who have renounced their citizenship before a consular officer abroad (renunciation within the United States is not possible). [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 4:46 pm by admin
The Canadian government has passed a new citizenship law that resolves a variety of issues about Canadian citizenship (Bill C-37). [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 5:54 am by Lyle Denniston
In particular, the challengers wanted to probe the thinking of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who supervises the Census Bureau and who made the actual decision to query citizenship. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 7:20 am by Scott Bomboy
Previously, Becerra and officials from 18 other states told Commerce Secretary Ross threatening a lawsuit if the Census Bureau includes a question about citizenship on its main 2020 Census form. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 8:51 am by Lyle Denniston
The Justices appeared to assume that the Census Bureau has enough time to prepare for the census, even with the newly ordered review. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 7:48 pm by Marty Lederman
  (More on this June deadline issue below.)Not only didn't Secretary Ross promulgate any new directive by June 30, but there was never any chance the Census Bureau might add the citizenship question to the census form by then--or any time soon thereafter. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 7:00 am
It’s the reason the Trump administration sought to add the question, rejecting the advice of Census Bureau’s professional staff, its scientific advisory committee, and five previous census directors from both Republican and Democratic administrations. [read post]
26 Mar 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day the US Congress set out the first uniform rules for granting US citizenship by naturalization. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 11:24 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
The census is performed by the US Census Bureau, a federal agency under the control of the Department of Commerce, and the exact procedure for conducting it falls to the Secretary of Commerce to determine. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 5:00 am
August 18, 1948 – Congress Establishes the Bureau of Immigration On this day in 1948, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 3:23 pm by Amy Howe
Last week, a fractured court agreed with the government that the Constitution allowed Ross to decide to use the citizenship question, and that he could do so even though employees of the Census Bureau had recommended another approach to gathering citizenship data. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 1:06 pm by Mithun Mansinghani
Tallying all of these up, the Census Bureau has asked U.S. residents about citizenship over a billion times. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 7:00 am by Bailey DeSimone
Reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs were documented in the United States Congressional Serial Set until 1849, when the Bureau was transferred to the Department of the Interior. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 10:08 am by Amy Howe
The secretary of commerce can deviate from the Census Bureau’s experts, she conceded, but he needs a reason to do so. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 3:56 pm by Amy Howe
Trump stressed that the government was not “backing down on our efforts” to gather citizenship data, and he explained that it would instead do so using existing government records – much as the Census Bureau had originally suggested. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 3:17 am by Lyle Denniston
” Since the Census Bureau could take until October 31 to finalize the census forms, the challengers asserted, “the Court need not decide this case on a record that omits or conceals critical facts about the true process and reasons for adding a citizenship question….If ever there was a case that should be decided on a true and complete record, it is this one. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 3:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The DOJ made the request in a previously unreported letter, dated Dec. 12 and obtained by ProPublica, from DOJ official Arthur Gary to the top official at the Census Bureau, which is part of the Commerce Department. [read post]