League of Women Voters challenges new policy forbidding them from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies
About this Case
On August 29, 2025, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) abruptly announced that it would no longer allow third-party nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations to assist new citizens in registering to vote after administrative naturalization ceremonies. The new policy allows only state or local election officials, or USCIS officers as a fallback, to provide voter registration services after these ceremonies.
Within months, USCIS’s restrictive policy forced the About this Case
On August 29, 2025, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) abruptly announced that it would no longer allow third-party nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations to assist new citizens in registering to vote after administrative naturalization ceremonies. The new policy allows only state or local election officials, or USCIS officers as a fallback, to provide voter registration services after these ceremonies.
Within months, USCIS’s restrictive policy forced the League of Women Voters (LWV or the League) and state and local Leagues across the country to cancel planned voter registration activities at administrative naturalization ceremonies, where League members and volunteers expected to help roughly 10,000 individuals register to vote.
USCIS’s policy is burdening the League’s effective voter registration and engagement work and, in turn, reducing voter registration access for thousands of new American citizens.
CLC represents the national League of Women Voters, LWV Colorado, LWV New Jersey, and three local Leagues, LWV of Saratoga County, LWV of the Charleston Area, and LWV of Milwaukee in challenging the new USCIS policy, arguing it violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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