“Totally absurd but probably will stick” is the motto of the T admin. It’s just one more grift scheme.

Category capped at 40k visas a year. This will probably create backlogs and processing delays for aliens who actually have extraordinary ability

Back to this from a couple of weeks ago. Glad to know that Kimmel has a Plan B if he needs it.

So they found a legal workaround for the “Gold Card” - anyone who donates a million bucks automatically qualifies as an “alien of extraordinary ability”. Totally absurd but probably will stick. No one will have standing to challenge.

"I love Italy. I like the idea of being a citizen there. And mostly what I like to do is bring my passport to parties and show it to people and make them jealous."

Anyone know if Naomi Osaka actually relinquished her US citizenship? Her name never showed up on the renunciation list and Japan now quietly tolerant of birth dual citizens maintaining the status into adulthood.

Crazy story at the intersection of 14th amendment and citizenship qualifications for the franchise.

Well said, @peterspiro.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on Marco Rubio’s 2016 defense of birthright citizenship. “There’s no reason why the argument he put to work in 2016 couldn’t be put to work today against the Trump executive order,” Professor Spiro wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

Can Trump revoke citizenship, and how often does it happen worldwide? > No, and too often. Informative @washingtonpost.com piece drawing on @globalcit.bsky.social data on the regulation of citizenship revokation around the world. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

🎯spoke to @aljazeera.com on global citizenship apartheid: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHS... Delight to showcase my @mitpress.bsky.social book❗️Brief summary at @icon-s.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @globalcit.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @peterspiro.bsky.social

The i UK newspaper asked me what's going on with citizenship policies across European countries. Here's why I think we are at a turning point in Europe when it comes to citizenship through naturalisation. And why that is worrying. inews.co.uk/news/world/w...

Hanging out in Budapest with a great citizenship crowd ❤️ @jdzankic.bsky.social @bronwenmanby.bsky.social @peterspiro.bsky.social

Why policing dual nationality makes no sense

Delighted to join!

I always found identity/countries of origin in pro tennis to be funny. Like on some level they’re all Floridian once they become pros:

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I still believe that denaturalization cases will be relatively rare and that the average immigrant does not need to worry about this. But we can definitely expect to see an increase in cases from around 100-150 a year to maybe double that?

“Fraud” can be broadly defined so definitely cause for concern. SCOTUS 2017 decision below unanimously held that misrep must have been “material”. Courts exercise closer scrutiny here than with respect to immigration policies, but there are probably lots of cases in which govt still prevails.

This is an excellent story, which quotes my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague Laura Bingham. It also provides useful context, showing how the rise of anti-immigrant, technologically powered national security state finds precedents in Obama-era policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Legit terrifying

blog.dividedargument.com/p/initial-th... from Samuel Bray, an expert on and critic of nationwide injunctions frequently cited in Barrett's opinion: "I do not expect the President’s executive order on birthright citizenship will ever go into effect."

I'm still reasonably confident that it won't end this way, and that birthright citizenship is validated against the Trump EO. But if it does end this way (and who knows these days), it will a devastating blow to the Constitution as we have known it.

It's bad, but thankfully not THAT bad. Class actions remain available (although have their own problems/limitations), and the Court defers on whether an injunction with a nationwide scope may be appropriate to grant to a state in some circumstances, like with the birthright citizenship order here.

This sounds right to me. Birthright citizenship a case to advance unrelated agenda. Will be a lot of confusion but in the end fairly confident one way or another that birthright citizenship will stick - nationwide.

Statement from Crimean human rights groups on Ukraine’s proposed amendments to citizenship law regulating dual citizenship - and threatening loss of Ukrainian citizenship for those who have had Russian citizenship imposed upon them crimeahrg.org/en/statement...

Oh no! Portuguese gov wants to increase waiting time for citizenship from 5 to 10 yrs, and deprive citizens of their citizenship after conviction for 'serious crimes'. This would set 🇵🇹 back miles in its approach to the legal and political inclusion of migrants. www.publico.pt/2025/06/18/p...

"The White House still needs to determine crucial details about the scheme, although three months ago Lutnick claimed on the All-In Podcast that it would launch in about a fortnight."

Reflections from OHCHR on grant of citizenship by Benin and others in the context of the International Decade for People of African Descent #citizenshipinafrica www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

The man is absolutely convinced that he's the Sovereign, entitled both to grant and to withhold citizenship at his personal will.

Not even Al Jazeera is pointing out that there’s no legal authority for this. It’s just completely made up, a dumb Trump idea that Howard Lutnick is carrying the water on. Some followers probably think it will solve the deficit.

This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now. It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).

Trump Card is NOT coming unless there’s a statute to back it up. Or this is some side hustle/grift in which you get “Trump” “citizenship” and has nothing to do with the real thing.

On June 8-9, Italy will hold a referendum, including one question on reducing naturalisation residency from 10 to 5 years. With @maartenpvink.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social we suggest that this would align Italy’s citizenship laws with much of Europe. firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...

New twists on the "Gold Card." 1) Would be a donation, not an investment. 2) Holders would pay US income tax on US income only. Going to say it once more: THERE IS NO STATUTORY AUTHORITY FOR THIS. Presidents can't give out green cards (or change tax law) without congressional okay.

Andrew Tate allegedly obtained Vanuatu ‘golden passport’ in month of Romania arrest www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Meanwhile, the 🇧🇪 federal gov raises the cost of applying for citizenship from 150 to 1000 euros.

Coda to the Louis Menand review of Buckley bio - lines up with the recent David Brooks column on Trump

On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5 With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...

France is dismantling its principle of jus soli by restricting access to French nationality in Mayotte, its 101st overseas department. MARIE-LAURE BASILIEN-GAINCHE on jus soli's constitutional status and the 'migrantisation' of a humanitarian crisis. verfassungsblog.de/dismantling-...

Spoiler: Yes.

#Kuwait #citizenshipdeprivation: “The latest campaign abolishes naturalisation by marriage, which only applied to women, and revokes citizenship granted to wives since 1987. Official data shows 38,505 women were naturalised by marriage from 1993 to 2020.” www.newarab.com/news/they-ta...

Government and Sweden Democrats: Gang criminals should be stripped of Swedish citizenship www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/gove...

A YouTrend poll found that 52 percent of Italians would set a residency time for foreigners to get citizenship of five years or less, compared with the current 10-year requirement. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6477...

Parodic emanation of the ridiculous Australian ban on dual citizen officeholding