Is getting naturalized a joke nowadays?
353159
they can alway live in their own country.
175925
You could try entering legally in the first place,and not just cheating the system.How would you make a good citizen if your first act is fraud?\nGetting a hang on proper English will get you far also.Assuming it's not your first language you are doing good.
917828
No you shouldn't.\n20 years is more than enough to apply for citizenship. It's his fault for being so lazy.
187583
Living in the US and being a US citizen either by birth or naturalized.
832695
Go to the immigration department and admit what you have done. If you have no bad police record and you have never been sued, then maybe they will review your case and possibly grant you the naturalisation. (Let us face it, if the immigration people were so serious, they would control those allowed into the country on a limited visa, at least 6 months prior to it expiring. Accordingly these people are not doing their job properly! They would not want this to get out!). \nOn the other hand, they could arrest you, put you away and fine you. \nThat is the risk, but if you ask me, honesty is the best policy, and that would be to your advantage in the described situation!\n\nGood luck!
999841
NOT I. Too many others in line trying to do it the right way. It is very insulting to those individuals from all countries including Mexico. And as proof that I am not a raccist, my wife is Mexican and El Salvadorian.There are other legal issues and problems that arise all from this one subject,but not enough time or letters to type it all. I love all people from everywhere, God bless you all in a way that is detrimantal to your survival, but don't cut in front of someone that wants to do it the right way and become a United States Citizen. I know there is more to it than that and I understand. But that is the biggest reason next to an even bigger one I will not talk about online.
220469
If I remember correctly from an episode of Lou Dobbs on CNN - in EXCESS OF 30 BILLION Dollars per year!  That's scary!\n\nGoy1012002/Stupidity_of_pride:  Why do you believe that using a fake Soc Sec number and being an illegal, gives you the RIGHT to the same benefits that LEGAL Citizens (Immigrants or not)?  If people would come in the right way, pay taxes with their 'real number', then most all I know would have NO PROBLEM with you or anyone else getting services that 'any othe tax payer would get'.  When you are not paying taxes LEGALLY because you are an Illegal...... you kinda missed the point.  You are entitled to services when you become an American Citizen, not before and not until, I don't care how many taxes you have paid, you aren't documented.  End of story!
837000
I found an article of the German immigration law:\n\n"Kann-Einbürgerung:\n§ 14 StAG :ausländische Staatsbürger, die im Ausland leben und besondere Bindungen zu Deutschland haben."\n\nI don't know If you still speak German, but it means that a foreigner living in a foreign country CAN be naturalized in Germany if he has a special relationship with Germany.\n\nSo it does not mean that you have the right of naturalization, but you have the possibility of getting granted the be naturalized. In practical it is up to the autorities to decide wheather you "deserve" the German nationality or not.\n\nSo you better start eating 'Schweinshaxe' and drink German beer, then you study a bit German Geography and Politics and refresh the language to pass the ability tests.. ;)\n\nGood luck with German Bureaucracy ;)
528184
Don't be so angry - it's going to take a little longer to become a citizen, that's all.\n\nNo go clean out those toilets.
1134491
no.  in order to enlist in any branbch of th emilitary you must be a LEGAL permanent resident with a green card.
1115068
Honestly, no. I feel that this happened so long ago that I had no control over it. I think it is just fine that so called "anchor babies" are allowed to be natural-born citizens.
644104
NO! Absolutely not! If you don't believe me you can go to www.uscis.gov or call the INS' customer service line and speak with an INS agent. I used to think the same thing. I've been in the states for 29 years. I am married with little US citizens of my own. I found out that because I've had my greencard for so long that I can not become a citizen through marriage and it doesn't even remotely help. He has to file a N-400, which is the naturalization for citizenship form. Mail it with all necessary copies, signatures, and payment of fees (which keeps increasing). Make sure that you send it CERTIFIED MAIL. Wait for the approval and then the examinations date. Study and take the test. Then wait to be sworn it and then after all is said and sworn...he'll be a citizen. Is it worth it? Yes, because there is so much US citizens take for granted!! Take care.
947829
I personally had not gotten it, but my close friend did.... it took maybe a year or so, she had to go through the same process like medical exam and interview like everyone else, \nshe is now a US resident, she can live and work here, she has all the rights of a US resident, and eligible to apply for citizenship in 5 yrs if she passes the requirements....\nshe applied when she lived in her own country, and was told she got it when she was the US on a student visa, so she had to go back home and go to the embassy there to do the interview and paperwork so she would not loose her appointment date etc....\nit's nothing fancy to come into the country, just enter with your green card like all the other residents!
1012720
not at all. just somehow you have to be an immigrant of US
508455
Do you mean dies in Iraq, becomes an Iraqi?  I hope not.  Or is in US service from a different country, if the US automatically makes him a citizen?  Neither is a definite.  I have heard of it happening, but I believe that the family requested he be a citizen post humusly.  It might look good for the family if they are trying for citizenship, but it wouldn't be a deciding factor.  They'd still have to jump through the bureaucratic hoops to get citizenship.  Even foreign members of our military now have to spend a lot of effort to get sworn in.  I've met people on their second enlistment (more than four years in the military) who haven't been given citizenship yet but were trying.  But then again, I've never asked when they started trying either.
273227
It is because of the culture.  They do accept foreigners, but it is very difficult.  The only way you can become a citizen is to get married to a Japanese.  That doesn't even guarantee that you will become a citizen. You have to go through many tests including Japanese tests and tests to make sure you are becoing like a Japanese person.  It has just been their culture not to accept imigrants, however they are loosening up quite a bit though, as they are increasing their need for English tachers.
515283
Hey....You told me to stay where I am and you are striving hard to get citizenship??? Very peculiar of you...Stay where you are and dont move...\n\nI used an immigrant lawyer to move to Canada...fair and square and all legit.