If I am not planning on living in US for the period of time required to get US citizenship...?
494255
To receive US citizenship through marriage, you must first get a green card (permanent residence), after two years have the conditions of permanent residence removed, and after one more year, if you have lived in the US continuously for 3 years or more with trips of no longer than 6 months, you can apply for citizenship.
994462
Check with an immigration lawyer. If you do something wrong it can ruin your chances of permanent residence and citizenship.
388456
It depends on your status now.  If you are illegal, you need to get a work visa.  First step: you need a US citizen sponsor--a relative, spouse, etc.--then hire an immigration lawyer to help you petition Homeland Security for permission to continue to the the next step, which is (for Mexicans) to live in a Mexican border town that has a US consul until that consul issues or Denys your work visa.  You might be there 3 to 8 months.  If you are here legally, you must get a green card, if you have a green card you have to wait a bit over four years to apply for citizenship.
24375
You can be out of the country up to one year, without needing to apply for a reentry permit. As noted above, there is no limit to the total amount of time you can be out of the country, but you do have to travel to USA, however briefly, at least once a year.\n\nUSCIS:\n"You may be found to have abandoned your permanent resident status if you:\n...\n* Remain outside of the US for more than one year without obtaining a reentry permit or returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year."\n\nAs always, USCIS is intentionally vague, allowing them to do as they please (as an immigrant, your life is a privilege, not a right).\n\nNote that if you're planning to apply for a U.S. citizenship, you need a continuous residence of 5 years, and being out for a long time would reset the count.
1098877
You are free to go to virtually any country, and with a temporary visa get work, and a home.  The biggest stipulation is if you want to change your citizenship.  This would mean you denounce all American citizenship.  Once that is done, you cannot recover it.  You cannot re-obtain American citizenship if you voluntarily give it up.\nAssuming that you do not change citizenship, you would only be entitled to a bare minimum of the countries benefits...unfortunate, but they are not like the US and just give you stuff cause your there.
871888
im not quite sure. you could ofcourse just apply for citizenship then you could just come over to the us.
922718
It depends on how you become a citizen. Most citizens are born citizens, which happens to anyone born in the United States or US territory, unless they are born to a foreign diplomat and to anyone born to a US citizen as long as the parents lived in the US at some point.\n\nTo naturalize as a citizen, you must first somehow become a permanent resident, which can happen a large number of ways. You must then remain in the United States aside from short vacations for a particular number of years, depending on the basis for your permanent residence, apply for citizenship, and take a test.
129270
you may become a canadian citizen
471150
Not after you are 18. The USA forces you to choose. Dual citizenship is not allowed for adults in the US.
198509
nope, only if you are us citizen
175692
Just wanted to clarify that you can only serve in the military once you have a permanent resident status, Military service can help you become a citizen faster. Not any foreigner can just serve in the military.\n\nYou mother needs to file an I-130 only ,once it is aprooved you must wait for your number to come. Right now there is a 7 year waiting period.... after that another 5 years to become a citizen... a long way indeed...\n\nYou can not adjust your status until your number comes... if you are in the US right now, you must leave when your current status expires ... otherwise you will become illegal...\n\nThere is some hope ,however, Bush introduced a special kind of visa for people that waited at least 3-4 years ( I belive) for their number. This visa allows them to come to the USA to live and work while waiting for their number...\n\nhope this helps\n\nPS. In case you don't know what I mean by the number, post a question and I will explain
933484
that will make u a us citizen
806505
There is a law stating what constitutes American citizenship.  If you are born of an American Parent(s) or born on US territory (including territories that are not states) you are automatically as US citizen.  If you immigrate, register, take the required courses in English and US History, pass the tests, pass medical exam, after 10 years you can be made a Naturalized citizen.  Naturalized citizens can not become President (unless there is a change in the Constitution).\n\nIt is difficult for many Americans to break up a family (ie send one or both parents home and allow the US child to stay, or deny the US Child by having the child go home with its parents.  I think it's time to change that law to only children born of US citizenS, not just one US citizen.  Children of one US citizen get a front place in line to immigrate legally.
483625
Well this is no small thing dude.Immigration is not such a simple process that you will be given Citizenship in a jiffy.First you have to go to the US on a visitors visa.Find employment there and get a work permit.Then after many years if your record is clean you will be given a Greencard.Some years after the same you will be given citizenship and therefore the right to vote.Hence this is a long process which will take years.
383252
If you are a U.S. citizen, you should be able to.
6131
Simply?  Find a country in which you want to move into, invistage their immigration proceedures, and once accepted, renounce your US citizenship.\n\nThat's the best way to completely rid yourself of the usa.  However keep in mind, once you renounce your citizenship, you can never come back as a full citizen again :)
561791
No problem - you will still get it.  Even if you were to take out Canadian citizenship later, you will still get your social security because you would still be a US citizen.  You don't give up your American citizenship if you take out Canadian citizenship.