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The Guardian
17-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
US couples with a noncitizen partner: did you decide to get married because of immigration policy concerns?
Amid Trump's mass deportation campaign, some couples with a foreign-born partner who live in the US are considering getting married as the safest and most affordable way to stay together in the long term. Since the month Trump was re-elected in November 2024, the New York City marriage bureau recorded a 33% increase in marriage license applications, the City first reported. Although it's hard to say how many unmarried transnational couples there are in the US, in 2021, 12.4% of all married couples included a foreign spouse, the highest percentage on record. If you're part of a couple with a foreign-born partner whom you're not yet married to or whom you recently wed, we'd like to hear from you. You can share your experiences of getting married as a transnational couple in the US using this form. Please include as much detail as possible. Please include as much detail as possible. Please note, the maximum file size is 5.7 MB. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. If you include other people's names please ask them first. If you're having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here.
The Guardian
16-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
US couples with a noncitizen partner: did you decide to get married because of immigration policy concerns?
Amid Trump's mass deportation campaign, some couples with a foreign-born partner who live in the US are considering getting married as the safest and most affordable way to stay together in the long term. Since the month Trump was re-elected in November 2024, the New York City marriage bureau recorded a 33% increase in marriage license applications, the City first reported. Although it's hard to say how many unmarried transnational couples there are in the US, in 2021, 12.4% of all married couples included a foreign spouse, the highest percentage on record. If you're part of a couple with a foreign-born partner whom you're not yet married to or whom you recently wed, we'd like to hear from you. You can share your experiences of getting married as a transnational couple in the US using this form. Please include as much detail as possible. Please include as much detail as possible. Please note, the maximum file size is 5.7 MB. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. Your contact details are helpful so we can contact you for more information. They will only be seen by the Guardian. If you include other people's names please ask them first. If you're having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here.
Bloomberg
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
New York and Other American Cities Need Immigrants
A couple of America's leading anti-immigration voices made the shocking discovery in late June that a lot of New York City residents were born in other countries. Right-wing podcaster/provocateur Matt Walsh wrote on that 40% of the city's population is foreign-born, arguing that this meant 'NYC isn't an American city anymore by any reasonable definition of the term. It's a tragedy and a disgrace.' 'NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration,' echoed the man apparently in charge of US immigration policy, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. He added a little later that, 'To understand the pace and scope of migration to America in past years, one-third of NYC is foreign-born and almost two-thirds of NYC children live in a foreign-born household.'
Daily Mail
04-07-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Is the traditional family unit making a comeback? Proportion of births in wedlock hits highest level for a DECADE at 52.4%
The proportion of children born within wedlock has hit a 10-year high, according to official figures. Some 52.36 per cent of babies had parents who were married or in a civil partnership in England and Wales last year. That was up nearly two percentage points on 2023, and a level not seen since 2014 when it was 52.5 per cent. In 1980 nearly nine in 10 babies were born to married couples, but the following decades saw a dramatic move towards cohabitation. There was also a bump in the number of children born last year, from 591,072 to 594,677. That was the first increase since 2021, although births remain at historically low levels, with 2024 ranking as the third lowest total since 1977. The reasons for the changes are not clear. Immigration has been running near record levels, with foreign-born women tending to have a higher birth rates. Figures from the 2021 census have also suggested that UK residents born outside the EU - the source of most immigration in recent years - are significantly more likely to be married than those born in the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data published earlier this week revealed that foreign-born women accounted for 33.9 per cent of live births in England and Wales in 2024. That was up from 31.8 per cent the previous year and the highest on record. In 2009 the level was below a quarter. Two-fifths of babies last year had at least one parent who was born in another country. However, the proportion varied widely between 68 per cent in London, 44.4 per cent in Greater Manchester, 41.2 per cent in the West Midlands and just 22.6 per cent in the North East.
The Sun
01-07-2025
- General
- The Sun
Number of babies born in Britain last year with at least one foreign-born parent hits shock new high
FOUR in ten babies born in Britain last year had at least one foreign-born parent, shock new figures reveal. The share of births to families with at least one parent from overseas jumped to 40.4 per cent in 2024, up from 35.1 per cent just three years earlier. 1 More than half of all babies had a foreign-born mum or dad in 17 per cent of English council areas, according to the Office for National Statistics. The capital is leading the change. The City of London topped the table at 84.4 per cent. This was followed by Brent on 83.9 per cent and Newham 82.4 per cent. Then came Harrow on 82.2 per cent, Ealing on 81.4 per cent and Westminster on 80 per cent. Migration expert Nuni Jorgensen, from Oxford University's Migration Observatory, told The Telegraph: 'The rise in births to migrant parents is largely due to more people moving to the UK. 'Since most new arrivals are young adults, more births to migrants are expected. 'Areas with a high share of births to foreign-born people tend to have larger migrant populations.' ONS data also shows 33 per cent of all births last year were to foreign-born mothers, with Indian mums making up 4.4 per cent. This was followed by Pakistan on 3.6 per cent, Nigeria 2.5 per cent and Romania 2 per cent.
