What is a disadvantage of becoming a U.S. citizen?
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Paying Taxes is pretty much the only disadvantage to becoming a U.S. Citizen. In the U.S., we have more chances to live a better life like going to college, learning a trade that could land you a better paying job, and the chance to say what you think about the government, which in any other country you would be in trouble for speaking out against your government. I don't know about everybody else, but I think paying taxes is about the only disadvantage to being a U.S. citizen. No one realizes how good we have it here in the U.S., they think it is this terrible place, but the U.S.has the yard with the greenest grass, so to speak.
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.
1106659
If you refuse to register, it will hurt you for future employment (you can not register after the age of 26) due to many employers requiring proof of registration. Immigrants that do not register while processing for citizenship will not be granted citizenship. You can be refused federal grants, loans (including student loans) and can also interfere with purchasing a home. It is a misdemeanor offense in most states, a felony in some.\n\nI don't know why anyone would worry about it. There is no draft, and probably won't be, unless the protesters stop people from enlisting.
976981
I am not clear what exactly you want to know. My view on citizenship of America is that it is the best place to live and it is very hard to get the citizenship of US for an outsider.
134459
As far as I understand it, you do NOT loose your U.S. citizenship by aqcuiring a second citizenship (like Israeli) next to it, UNLESS you actively renounce your U.S. citizenship. The U.S. does not recognize another citizenship, but does not explicitly forbid it. They simply don't care (at least as long as there is no conflict of interest arising from your second nationality, e.g. a war between the two countries of your citizenship).\n\nThe State Department has the information you need (see link below). When I became a U.S. citizen I researched it (since I have Dutch nationality as well) and those were the result I came up with.
360459
You most certainly do not have to be a citizen to join the US military. You do, however, have to be a legal resident. Those legal residents serving in our armed forces, however, can cut their required waiting time to become a US citizen down to three years.\n\nIn fact, many people join the military SPECIFICALLY to speed up the citizenship process. Our country realizes that serving in the armed forces requires a sacrifice. It is a dangerous job and your life is always on the line. That sacrifice is rewarded by speeding up the citizenship process. These soldiers has already shown their loyalty to this country.
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No there is not nor does it directly affect their status as an illegal immigrant.\n\nMarriage to an American citizen may allow the illegal entrant to more easily adjust his status but it does not, as the previous answer stated, grant him or her citizenship.
679514
NO.  If you apply for citizenship in another country you foreit your American citizenship.\n\nThe only way you could have dual citizenship is if you were born somewhere outside of US, or automatically granted (like marriage).
1016295
There is no easy way to become a U S citizen. If you have a skill which is in high demand in the United States and are NOT in the U S illegally, you can apply for a Visa as a skilled worker. Then you can work hard and hope you will eventually be granted citizenship. Alternatively, you can try to get an emigration visa from your home country, but the quotas set by the United States are usually very small, and the number  of applicants very large. \nThe old loophole of marrying a U S citizen has largely been closed.
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http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/natz/index.htm\n\nMost people don't become citizens without having a greencard or visa first.
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A person obtains citizenshipin the US by several methods.\n\n1.  Be born within the territory of the US to parents other than foreign diplomas stationed here.\n\n2.  Be the child of a US Citizen who mets certain residency requirements.\n\n3.  Naturalization is the process where US Citizenship is granted to a alien via laws (which change ocassionally).
759598
No. Payment of taxes, residency, and voting are completely separate issues. Voting, participating in the government of a country, is properly restricted to citizens of that country. In fact, by law, an American citizen who votes in another country's elections forfeits his American citizenship.
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What benefits are you referring to ? You should specify.\n\nAs a citizen you can now vote and get a US passport, everything else you can do a legal alien. \n\nContrary to what many people believe, you don't need to be a US  citizen to get social security benefits ,however, you must meet the same requirements as a US citizen (be of retirement age and work for at least 10 years) legally of course.
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Yeah... one drawback i have seen in the future is that some of them might be able to vote w/o learning what it is to be American. They should (before getting amnisty) is take a US history class. That way they can be proud of their new country. \n\n\n\nPS\nI'm of Mexican heritidge... of 100% Mexican heritidge...
187583
Living in the US and being a US citizen either by birth or naturalized.
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You are not a U.S. citizen because one of your grandparents was a citizen.  It is necessary for one of your parents to be a citizen or for you to have been born here.\n\nTo become a naturalized citizen, you must immigrate by getting a visa.
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No.\n\nOnce you renounce your citizenship within this country, any benefits and rewards that this country offers it's citizens are no longer available to you.  The chances of you even getting your citizenship back to get these beneifits would be extremely rare.\n\nAlso, it is unlikely that once you renounce your citizenship, and then eventually get it back, that anything counted PRIOR to the renoucement will be looked at favorably.\n\nRemember, once you renounce your citizenship with the USA, you are no longer a citizen, you no longer are protected by the laws of the US, the rules and benefits of the us society.