DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship
#HackerNews #DHS #Real #ID #U.S. #Citizenship #Security #Privacy
Canada’s *Lost Canadians* amendments to its Citizenship Act came into force on Monday, December 15, 2025.
What this means is that if you have at least one Canadian ancestor — born in Canada or by naturalization — you probably are now a Canadian citizen.
This includes ancestors who were were British subjects domiciled in Canada for periods prior to 1947.
This recent podcast has the two Canadian citizenship expert lawyers who literally wrote the book on citizenship by descent, one of who provided expert testimony at the Senate hearings on the legislative amendments in C-3 and contributing the briefs from the Canadian Bar Association.
They note that their research shows that many Americans, especially in the North East, likely qualify. While it’s necessary to establish the line of descent to obtain a certificate of citizenship, it’s also necessary to renounce formally citizenship *to Canadian authorities* to avoid it.
New Canadian citizens as a result of these amendments include numerous well known Americans, including Hilary Clinton and Tucker Carlson.
It’s noted that Carlson vehemently opposes dual citizenship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1siBJvxqc9Q
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#Canada #Citizenship #DualCitizenship #LostCanadians #TuckerCarlson #CdnPoli #HilaryClinton #Canadian
Feral Thoughts
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This sounds dystopian - tens of millions will be excluded, and will have to run from pillar to post.
With Special Intensive Revisions of the electoral rolls, and now with this digital census, citizenship of India and other rights have become alms thrown to the Indian people by the government. And these are alms that can be taken away for various reasons, these are alms one has to keep begging for periodically.
$[x2 Government Says Census 2027 Will Be Conducted 'Digitally']
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that the government has planned "to collect data through Mobile Apps."
The Wire
December 10, 2025
https://thewire.in/government/government-says-census-2027-will-be-conducted-digitally
#Asia#India#census#CasteCensus#census2027#fascism#DigitalFascism#citizenship
This sounds dystopian - tens of millions will be excluded, and will have to run from pillar to post.
With Special Intensive Revisions of the electoral rolls, and now with this digital census, citizenship of India and other rights have become alms thrown to the Indian people by the government. And these are alms that can be taken away for various reasons, these are alms one has to keep begging for periodically.
$[x2 Government Says Census 2027 Will Be Conducted 'Digitally']
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that the government has planned "to collect data through Mobile Apps."
The Wire
December 10, 2025
https://thewire.in/government/government-says-census-2027-will-be-conducted-digitally
#Asia#India#census#CasteCensus#census2027#fascism#DigitalFascism#citizenship
Alex Akselrod
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Because the shooter was Afghan, #Trump declared it "an act of terror”
& quickly ordered 500 more #NationalGuard troops to #WashingtonDC.
& US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services has stopped processing Afghan immigration requests after the attack near White House
Because the shooter was Afghan, #Trump declared it "an act of terror”
& quickly ordered 500 more #NationalGuard troops to #WashingtonDC.
& US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services has stopped processing Afghan immigration requests after the attack near White House
I know this is the #BigotBroadcastingCorporation but I don't doubt this but CNN, CBS and Politico also confirm this.
Here's the SCOTUS' official writing and here's a legal blog going over it.
Obviously #Sotomayor dissents, alongside #Jackson...
I'm neither a #US citizen nor #trans nor #nonbinary, (and yes these things ain't necessarily correlated!) but if I were I'd certainly #GTFO and find an #immigration #lawyer to check options given the #TransGenocide that is being orchestrated.
- Cuz legally #ForcedDetransition is just that! THIS is exactly how the #Nazis trapped Trans* and Nonbinary individuals as well as Jews and opposition figures in Germany: By refusing to issue #Passports or having them stamped with a red J.
Refusing to issue documents consistent with someone's gender identity is basically an "invisible T-Stamp" because in the age of #NakedScanners* this will get people incarcerated, denied entry or deported for "identitiy fraud".
- Just like #Switzerland and #Sweden denied people without explicit visa entry if they had a red J stamped on their #passports!
#USpol #Trump #democide #genocide #TransDemocide #HumanRights #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Passports #FreedomOfMovement #FreedomOfTravel #TransErasure #Detransition #Fascism #Trumpism #MAGAts #MAGA #MAGA_fascism #Christofascism
At this point I know almost a dozen people that were "assigned #US #citzen at birth" without their explicit consent who'd literally do anything to get #denaturalized and live as a free being.
- Unfortunately the #USA not just imposes #FATCA but also a de-facto debt peonage with an absurdly-high #RenounciationFee of U$D 2.350,-- and #RenounciationTax because in the eyes of the #US government they are considered #PayPigs!
Which begs the question if #crowdfunding for that violates the #ToS of #GoFundMe and/or other platforms.
- #WhatsMissing is the opposite of the Thiel Fellowship aka. a fund that finances #Renounciation of #USA #citizenship (and OFC supports people attaining a different citizenship because #statelessness is *worse than homelessness!)
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
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Do you really think that the Proud Boys—ahem, ICE agents—would pass a U.S. #citizenship test?
The questions should be chanted at agents in public.
Even elected officials.
Make #VirtueYelling a thing.
https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/25/yell-your-commonplace-virtues-dont-signal-them/
Do you really think that the Proud Boys—ahem, ICE agents—would pass a U.S. #citizenship test?
The questions should be chanted at agents in public.
Even elected officials.
Make #VirtueYelling a thing.
https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/25/yell-your-commonplace-virtues-dont-signal-them/
Lisa Melton
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Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
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I became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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I’d love dual citizenship, but the reality is that permanent residency just isn’t enough for this naturalized Japanese citizen. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/17/japan/choosing-japanese-citizenship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #visas #immigration #expats #foreignworkers #immigrationservicesagency #immigrationbureau #citizenship
Alex Akselrod
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2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “ #democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
I became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “ #democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
I became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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#Federal labor #unions targeted in the EOs have repeatedly sued the #Trump admin, & in some cases forced the admin to temporarily pause Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force & reshape the government. The American Federation of Government Employees [#AFGE] has filed more than a dozen lawsuits related to the federal work force. The White House has likened this to a declaration of “war.”
So far, 9 agencies have terminated #union contracts that covered >445k #FederalWorkers from the #EPA, US #CoastGuard, #FEMA, #GSA, the Departments of #HHS, #Agriculture & #VeteransAffairs, & parts of #ICE & #Citizenship & #Immigration Services.
“This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history,” said Mike Podhorzer, a former political director of the #AFLCIO. “There’s not another time when that many people lost their union.”
Jose Takei, an 82-year-old man of Japanese descent who became stateless after being left in the Philippines as a child following the end of World War II, is keen to get Japanese citizenship while he is in good health. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/filipino-japanese-citizenship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #philippines #wwii #foreignministry #shigeruishiba #citizenship #stateless
Alex Akselrod
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After #Kabul fell to the #Taliban in August 2021, President Joe #Biden’s admin moved to resettle #Afghans who had worked for the #US government through the Special Immigrant #Visa (#SIV) program, which grants lawful permanent resident status & a pathway to US #citizenship. As of April, about 25k Afghans had received an SIV, & another 160k had pending applications, said Adam Bates, an attorney with the International #Refugee Assistance Program who analyzed #State Dept data.