Federal authorities on the island have recently detained hundreds of Dominicans, who often share the same ethnic background, ...

A Puerto Rican ... it might not release you. Citizenship isn’t something that you wear on your body. Maybe you pull an ID, a passport, or even a birth certificate, but agents frequently assume ...

Passports from Puerto Rico, Guam and other U.S. possessions ... So will a Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of Citizenship. Providing appropriate paperwork showing that you've been ...

President Trump, now convicted of felonies himself, pardoned the former Illinois governor on Feb. 10, 2025 — almost five ...

Bill Bruch outlines a proposed initiative to require citizenship verification for voter registration in Washington.

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

Residents of Puerto Rico who say they are “nonbinary” will now be permitted to have an identifier on their birth certificates. The plaintiffs argued that Puerto Rico’s birth certificate ...

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

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

In a story published Jun. 2, 2025, about a ruling ordering Puerto Rico's government to offer a third gender choice on birth certificates, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the ruling was ...