He's 79 now, and after a 60-year anti-colonial crusade, he has something new to adorn his surroundings: a certificate of Puerto Rican citizenship. He is the first Puerto Rican in history to have it.

Six people from Puerto Rico argued that its current birth certificate policy violated “the right to equal protection under ...

Native Puerto Ricans will need a new form of ... but will they make all Mexican-Americans with U.S. citizenship born in Mexico get their birth certificate renewed? It doesn't make sense." ...

The Puerto Rican tradition of requiring birth certificates for everything from ... Some people are anxious because they think their citizenship is threatened, which it's not." ...

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has ruled that nonbinary and gender non-conforming people on the island can update their birth ...

ATLANTA — Documents obtained through an open records request show the birth certificate mandate placed on some Puerto Rican driver’s license applicants in Georgia, and a citizenship quiz ...

30 to prove citizenship when filing an immigration ... Individuals born in Puerto Rico may apply for a new birth certificate online or by mail. For more information, go to www.prfaa.com ...

and it has to do with issues Puerto Ricans are facing with getting their birth certificates from the U.S. territory, a document used to prove for U.S. citizenship when renewing a license or ID.

Activists are celebrating a decision by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to allow nonbinary and gender nonconforming people to update their birth certificates.