Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I'll share my personal story of becoming a US citizen, the legal way, of course:
My father moved our family here to US when I was 8 years old. He was (still is) a doctor, but in the third world country we were in, a doctors life wasn't that great.
A hospital sponsored us here in the USA with a work visa ( I think a J1 ). That was it. There was no other help to get sponsored for citizenship.
Then came a golden opportunity. If he served one year in a "physician deprived area," then he'd become eligible to apply for a green card. We moved to the midwest, lived there one year, and finally, it was time for the green card interview.
Luckily, we got it. My father got the green card, and then in turn the rest of the family got it as well.
Then I myself had to wait five years or until I was 18 to apply for US citizenship (those two conditions happened to me at the same time, since I got the green card at age 13).
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But now, the rules for getting green cards and citizenships have toughened up after 9/11.
My father moved our family here to US when I was 8 years old. He was (still is) a doctor, but in the third world country we were in, a doctors life wasn't that great.
A hospital sponsored us here in the USA with a work visa ( I think a J1 ). That was it. There was no other help to get sponsored for citizenship.
Then came a golden opportunity. If he served one year in a "physician deprived area," then he'd become eligible to apply for a green card. We moved to the midwest, lived there one year, and finally, it was time for the green card interview.
Luckily, we got it. My father got the green card, and then in turn the rest of the family got it as well.
Then I myself had to wait five years or until I was 18 to apply for US citizenship (those two conditions happened to me at the same time, since I got the green card at age 13).
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But now, the rules for getting green cards and citizenships have toughened up after 9/11.