Religion...

[Al Southner]

Will international political questions be asked too? Say if an applicant is from
Serbia, will the IO ask do you support American Kosovo War in 1999? Or
if the applicant is from Palestine, will the IO ask do you support Israel right ot exist?

These can go on.

The question which are the focus of the N400 are civics questions. Kosovo War, Korean War, burning bras war, and any kind of war, except the US civil war are off limits. If you asked people political questions, no one will be granted US citizenship because most immigrants that I know, are very critical of US foreign policy because it has been stuck on stupid for many decades. You are being interview to assess your understanding of US political system, history and ability to communicate in English... Here is the sad thing, the questions which they ask of immigrants at the N400 interview cannot be answered by students in the nearest high school, because who cares about Jefferson having written the Declaration of Indepence? Did he even write it or was it written by slaves, but claimed by Jefferson? You need to pay attention to what is being asked, if an IO asks you take your underwear off to see if you aren't hiding any weed, as part of the new citizenship test, don't do it. He is a pervert and call the police.

 

[WBH]

WBH,

Your information is incorrect. The law clearly states that if you meet the requirements to be granted US citizenship, then it should granted by the immigration authorities. There is no law which limits how many people from one country can be naturalized to become USC. You are wrong and please don't opine on such matters, you will mislead people..

It is about LPR priority date. There are quota for each country

 

[Al Southner]

It is about LPR priority date. There are quota for each country

WBH,

That I agree with. Sorry, but just wanted to make sure people don't take the wrong idea about limiting nationals who want to naturalized. Cheers,

Al

 

[WBH]

WBH,

That I agree with. Sorry, but just wanted to make sure people don't take the wrong idea about limiting nationals who want to naturalized. Cheers,

Al

If the people read carefully not just one sentence or even one post but also
the previous post, one should not be misled for this sparticular issue. The
post I replied to is clearly about LPR priority date but not N400 priority date

 

[c1mth0g]

Plenty of practices that would be illegal or legally dubious when applied to US citizens are fine when applied to foreigners in the context of immigration proceedings. For example if you are male and from a Muslim country and you are applying for a visa to the US, you will be scrutinized a lot more carefully. I remember reading somewhere in the aftermath of 9/11 where some court actually agreed with the US government's position that it was OK to apply more stringent scrutiny to nationals from certain countries, or something like that. Now I don't know where an application for naturalization would count as a typical immigration application where such discrimination/profiling is legal. I suspect this has never been tested in the courts - I've never heard of a group of people suing the INS/USCIS because of discrimination in naturalization applications.

 

[WBH]

Plenty of practices that would be illegal or legally dubious when applied to US citizens are fine when applied to foreigners in the context of immigration proceedings. For example if you are male and from a Muslim country and you are applying for a visa to the US, you will be scrutinized a lot more carefully. .

You have to live with that. In the cold war era, immigrants from
ex-USSR migh tbe scrutinized more carefully than those from a
Muslim country.

 

[trrajesh]

Its probably not worth talking more on this but you have to look at the context and grounds of reasoning. Muslim names get stuck in name check because some of the terrorists have similar Muslim names and not because the person IS A Muslim. A Christian or an Israeli with a name similar to a terrorist name will have the same difficulty. Same as O'Reilys and O'Connors had problems because of IRA in England from 70s - 90s. You could be a Jew from Iran and you will still go through extra scrutiny than a Muslim from Indonesia. Some countries have limited visa numbers because US doesn't want to homogenize the population hence we have Green card lottery. If the system was followed the way it was intended to then Religion has no role in the determination of an applicant's eligibility. There are special circumstances ofcourse like affiliation, special oath's etc..