For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American ...

Donald Trump wants to take citizenship away from the US-born children of temporary or undocumented immigrants. Did something ...

David J. Rowland and Julius Niesert discuss restoring citizenship for Holocaust victims and their descendants. Former German citizens who had to leave Germany due to racial, political or religious ...

The new law will close legal loopholes that have caused applications to be rejected German lawmakers have approved changes that will make it easier for descendants of those who fled Nazi ...

Germany eases citizenship for Nazi victims' descendants 03/24/2021 March 24, 2021. Many descendants of the victims of Nazism have been unable to claim German citizenship due to gaps in the laws.

At this point, the law is expected to go into effect sometime in May 2024. CAUTION : German citizens with pending naturalization applications for foreign citizenship should be very careful.

Germany’s 2021 reform of the Nationality Act has unlocked citizenship of an EU country for countless descendants of Nazi persecution victims—no passport history or flawless records required.

BERLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Germany's cabinet on Wednesday passed a draft bill to ease the citizenship law, hoping a faster track to German nationality will attract skilled migrants to plug chronic ...

(Martin Dean, "The Development and Implementation of Nazi Denaturalization and Confiscation Policy up to the Eleventh Decree of the Reich Citizenship Law," 16 Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Fall ...

Until a previous change that became law in 2000, German citizenship had only been bestowed on those who could prove their German lineage or who had been born to German parents.

Until a change to the law in 1953, German citizenship could only be passed on paternally. A legal decree was passed in 2019 to help close these loopholes.