While we debate the immigration reform, can we start giving more rights to immigrants with matricula consular?
960994
The debate seems to me to be about making a decision whether to let people who knowingly and willingly break our laws be rewarded for their violations.  This is a pretty senseless debate, and it hinges on one idea:  if enough people chose to break the law should the law be changed to legalize their actions?  So if one person breaks a law that is one thing and the person is legitimately guilty and should be punished, but if 5 million people break the same law are they not just as guilty?  Should the punishment not be the same as if one person broke the law?\n\nLook at it another way:  if enough people go out and rob banks does this mean bank robbery should be legalized?  And while we are debating this, should we give special privileges to bank robbers already in custody?\n\nThis is what the debate is really all about, and while self-serving politicians try to conjure up ways to get more votes from non-citizens, there should be NO additional advantages given to illegal Mexican immigrants who just happen to have approval of Mexican officials to enter the US illegally.   This thing has to be settled first  or the problems will ripple all the way up to the head of the line.
1124258
Legal immigrants are allowed to have MOST of teh rights to which citizens are entitled.  In general, this includes ownership of property, and  the right to keep and bear arms.
445184
Not now....maybe we should have considered something like that a long time ago...like 200 years ago...they are already over here...and want rights too...I think we need stricker immigration laws for sure...for starts though, if they can ban the bible in public schools, they should ban the Koran...
201735
NO!!!!  Some laws should and can be changed.  The one that says you must be a Natural Born Citizen Of the U.S. to even try to get this job must always remain!!!! I was born here and stay here.  He came here to get Rich, He Rich and he Stay.
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.
982384
I would like to know about this also because my husband wants to keep his mexican citizenship but also  become an an american to vote  and such. i agree totally on your last sentence! does this one on top of me know what she is talking about?
898147
YES! American citizens, native born, or legal immigrants need to say ENOUGH, and do whatever is necessary to protect the sovereignty of the country, allot of men have died for something this generation is throwing away.
661819
Ask this in the immigration Q&A.
555622
full amnesty is not the answer. Setting quotas for each country is what the immigration policy has been about ever since the early 1900's. Didn't work then, won't work now.
1058657
It depends on the circumstances, such as the applicants age, but the english test and a few oral questions concerning civics is the least one can expect.  A lot also depends on the examiner, if they suspect the validity of the marrage they will be more likely to scrutinize the candiate.  They get permanent residency fairly easily, but they don't get citizenship without some questions, and the entire interview is conducted in English.
383252
If you are a U.S. citizen, you should be able to.
617937
I don't think we need MORE civil rights.  We simply need more clarity about what our rights really are.  The problems we see today are a result of a very cloudy view that most people have over what are rights and what are merely desires.  \n\nImmigrants, for example, do not have a right to citizenship.  I respect their desire for citizenship, but this is not something they can demand.  We need to go back and rethink what it means to have rights.  Until we do that, it all becomes a big power struggle over who gets what they want.\n\nLiberty for all!
971366
You have my sympathy, you can appeal the refusal, but bear in mind that there is alot of negative press at the moment due to the goverments under estimation of immigrants they would allow. Go talk to the CAB, they will be able to point you in the right direction.\nJo
957397
They are in favor of a "path to citizenship" (DNC Website) which is the same thing as Bush's "guest worker program".  Look for amnesty coming up.
508953
Current proposals include English fluency for citizenship.\n\nSimilar objections are raised with every new wave of immigrants, but they will be absorbed as was the preceeding wave. \n\nI lived in a multicultural environment as a child, and enjoyed it all.  Many Italian mothers and grandmothers spoke only their native language, but my Irish grandparents came with English and Gaelic. Those Italians who were not home-bound by culture quickly learned English on the streets, and in school. At home they spoke to their elders in Italian. My Russian Polish Jewish stepfather, born in the U.S., could communicate in many languages, but most often Yiddish.\n\nWe all learned and experienced ceremonies, holidays, customs, foods, dances and songs from one another.  When we spent our summers at the seashore - no A/C in those days - we performed those songs and dances with and for one another.  \n\nToday, all of us feel assimilated, and appreciate the many gifts passed down from those who braved the unknown to come to America.  None of us are terrorists or criminals, nor are any that I still know xenophobic or racist.  We are mostly tolerant, socially progressive and fiscally conservative.  Politically we are split 50/50.\n\nJust as in the late 1800's when our grandparent's lived in the Irish, Italian and Jewish ghettos of NYC today's immigrant finds comfort and safety in being with "his own kind."  Over time many diverse interests replace language and skin color as reasons to be neighbors.  Today my neighbors' lineages are: a Dane with an Irish wife, a German with a Portuguese wife, a Norwegian with an Irish husband, an English pair, and the Irish in my home.  So too will it be for the wave now arriving.
700853
Why do you think it's not possible?  Naturalization law has not changed since 1996.\n\nAnd people like your parents are exactly whom the N-648 was created for.  Here are the requirements:\nhttp://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=6c388875d714d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=db029c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD
198126
In certain states of the USA it is pending to get rasied. I believe California and Florida are asking for more, I'm not sure though, only because there is so many more immigrants nowadays.