{"id":16408,"date":"2024-04-02T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/immigrants-given-third-gender-option-on-naturalization-form\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:05:16","slug":"immigrants-given-third-gender-option-on-naturalization-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/immigrants-given-third-gender-option-on-naturalization-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants Given Third Gender Option on Naturalization Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has edited its application for naturalization to give immigrants a \u201cthird gender\u201d option called \u201cX,\u201d or \u201cAnother Gender Identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 04\/01\/24 edition of Form N-400 will be the first USCIS form to include the X gender option,\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/newsroom\/alerts\/uscis-provides-third-gender-option-on-form-n-400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> from USCIS. \u201cApplicants filing this edition of Form N-400 on or after April 1, 2024, will have X immediately available as a gender option on their form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USCIS also announced the update on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USCIS is introducing a third gender option, &#8220;X,&#8221; defined as \u201cAnother Gender Identity\u201d. Today we published a new edition of Form N-400, the first form to include the X gender option. This option will become available on additional forms as we revise them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gEpcTO7SP1\">https:\/\/t.co\/gEpcTO7SP1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USCIS (@USCIS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USCIS\/status\/1774852106824114518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/policy-manual-updates\/20240401-GenderOptions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy alert<\/a> for the \u201cX\u201d gender option, USCIS explained binary gender options created \u201csignificant barriers\u201d for those identifying as something other than a man or woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimiting benefit requestors to binary gender options also creates administrative challenges for USCIS, where benefit requestors submit birth certificates and other official government-issued documents with a gender other than \u2018M\u2019 or \u2018F,\u2019\u201d the policy alert noted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/immigrants-given-third-gender-option-on-naturalization-form\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has edited its application for naturalization to give immigrants a \u201cthird gender\u201d option called \u201cX,\u201d or \u201cAnother Gender Identity.\u201d \u201cThe 04\/01\/24 edition of Form N-400 will be the first USCIS form to include the X gender option,\u201d reads a statement from USCIS. \u201cApplicants filing this edition of Form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}