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Faster way to get a citizenship?
- Thread starter galapagos
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Al Southner
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travel plans...
You can travel on your current passport, except you will have to apply for visa for most countries. Also, US passport doesn't give you a free pass to any country, some countries require US citizens to have visas. China being one. Unless you know when Osama Bin Laden is, in which you can deliver his balls to US inteligence for US Congress to pass a special resolution and bill confering US citizenship on you, you will have to wait for years. I am not sure what is your visa situation in the US, if you have none, then a greencard will have to be the first step, process takes about 6 months or so if married to a USC. After that another 21 months before removing conditions, plus another 3-5 months to remove conditions. In the process, another 9 months to be eligible for US citizenship. The only way and fastest way, find Osama....
lol. I'm on Conditional GC now.. I got another question: if I join the military do I have to remove conditions anyway or once I'm a citizen through the military service I don't have to deal with I751?. Unless you know when Osama Bin Laden is, in which you can deliver his balls to US inteligence for US Congress to pass a special resolution and bill confering US citizenship on you, .
Jackolantern
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If you're in active duty the I-751 won't matter, since to qualify for citizenship based on active duty you don't need even need to be a permanent resident.
But if you're filing based on 1 year of military service without active duty, you need to have valid permanent resident status on the day of the interview. Which means the I-751 must have been already filed if the interview is after the 2-year GC anniversary (because if the I-751 remains unfiled after deadline, the permanent resident status would be invalidated). They will decide the I-751 along with the naturalization application if the I-751 is still pending at the time of the naturalization interview.
But if you're filing based on 1 year of military service without active duty, you need to have valid permanent resident status on the day of the interview. Which means the I-751 must have been already filed if the interview is after the 2-year GC anniversary (because if the I-751 remains unfiled after deadline, the permanent resident status would be invalidated). They will decide the I-751 along with the naturalization application if the I-751 is still pending at the time of the naturalization interview.
Jackolantern
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thanks for the answer Jackolantern.. do you mean they take people on even tourist visas into the US army?
Not now. But they are taking a few people on student visas with certain specialized skills. And in past wars like Vietnam, they have gone as far as taking illegal immigrants.
So if you are not a permanent resident or citizen, it's 99.9% that you won't get into the military in the first place, but once you get in you don't need to be a permanent resident to get citizenship based on serving in active duty.
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