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Report: Decline in Citizenship Applications
CHICAGO, IL – On September 10th, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) released a report that reveals a shocking decline in the number of U.S. citizenship applications in the last year. The report is called Priced Out: U.S. Citizenship, a privilege for the rich and well-educated? Exorbitant fees that had gone up by 610% in the last 10 years and the change in new citizenship test primarily impact legal immigrants of low-income and less-educated backgrounds, making U.S. citizenship a privilege for the rich and well educated.
CHICAGO, IL – On September 10th, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) released a report that reveals a shocking decline in the number of U.S. citizenship applications in the last year. The report is called Priced Out: U.S. Citizenship, a privilege for the rich and well-educated? Exorbitant fees that had gone up by 610% in the last 10 years and the change in new citizenship test primarily impact legal immigrants of low-income and less-educated backgrounds, making U.S. citizenship a privilege for the rich and well educated.
