The Liberals will want to avoid race becoming an election issue, and a citizenship bill could help them.
At a citizenship ceremony near Ottawa the royal couple presented national flags to 25 new Canadians who had come from 12 different countries.
Nathalie Chambers, a citizenship teacher who co-ordinates FAB at the school, said the system worked because it was the pupils who were completely in control.
"Having a citizenship test that teaches people about life in the UK is important, but Theresa May has many other issues in her department that are far more important to focus on, " the shadow immigration minister said.
Our favorite anecdote so far, from Gordon Brown, who retold to an audience gathered for a session on corporate citizenship a story about the notoriously stingy industrialist Henry Ford.
Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that defines us as a people, for now is not a time for partisanship, it's a time for citizenship, a time to come together and work together with the seriousness of purpose that our national security demands.
That led some Republican leaders to conclude that supporting immigration reform with a path to citizenship has become a political imperative.
For now is not a time for partisanship, it's a time for citizenship -- a time to come together and work together with the seriousness of purpose that our national security demands.
Jenks had the mic first and made the case against a pathway to citizenship and for a comprehensive e-Verify system (which would require employers to check the immigration status of their employees).
But some officeholders and others view the vote as a fundamental province of citizenship, a privilege to hold out as a goal for new arrivals.
Mr MacShane thinks it odd to restrict a fundamental right of citizenship at a time when it is being made more readily available to others.
The process, which doesn't offer a path to citizenship, opens on Aug. 15, according to a 16-page guideline issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency handing the process.
For individuals considering taking a second citizenship, the advantages include expanded job opportunities, unrestricted residency, the ability to own property in two countries, access to social programs in two countries and the increased travel options that come with having two passports.
And if there is a path to citizenship that has enough of a realization that we have to respect the rule of law, then so be it.
And he restated his case for giving those already in America illegally a chance to become legal and a shot at eventual citizenship after paying a fine and back-taxes, learning English, working for several years and staying out of trouble.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship - a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
He's not backing off from supporting a pass to citizenship, but he's got a different order.
But thousands were refused citizenship when Czechoslovakia split in 1993: a new Czech citizenship law, designed indirectly to exclude the Romanies, was introduced, and only belatedly changed.
One option would be to grant them temporary work visas with a longer-term path to citizenship and a higher tariff rate.
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Voters would have to provide two proofs of residency, a birth certificate or citizenship papers, and a valid social security card in order to get the required ID.
To gain a green card, which offers a step toward citizenship, they would need to pay taxes, pass a background check and line up behind people who had applied to the system legally.
President Bush has always actually been closer to Democrats than Republicans on this issue, favoring a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that congressional conservatives object to as a form of amnesty.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship -- a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
Among other things, the eight senators have reached agreement on a path to citizenship that could affect up to roughly 11 million undocumented residents, as well as the creation of a system to assess the state of border security.
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Jason Kenney's proposed law change comes a day after a Canadian with dual Lebanese citizenship was linked to a bus bombing last summer in Bulgaria.
If citizenship is a test to certain requirements, like learning English, paying a fine, then you actually get majority support for citizenship.
Make work legal, while making citizenship a distant object for those who want it.
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It's turned into 30 members of Congress, of which 26 support a path to citizenship.
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He rejected the DREAM Act that would provide a pathway to citizenship for some young illegal immigrants.
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