The newest foreign national celebrity to meet US citizenship requirements is David Feherty, a TV commentator from Northern Ireland. Immigration officials administered the citizenship oath to the 51-year-old former golf pro recently at the USCIS office in Irving, Texas. Feherty, who had been a green hard holder for over 10 years, began applying for US [...]
Q: How long do I have to wait before applying for citizenship? A: Ok, so you have the green card. Now...when can you start applying for citizenship? The answer will vary depending on how you obtained the green card. Once you have submitted your US citizenship application, however, the rest of the citizenship process is [...]
A US citizenship ceremony was held at the JFK Library in Boston today for 215 new US citizens. The US citizenship candidates were nationals of Australia, Barbados, Cape Verde, China, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zaire. Before arriving at the ceremony today, these individuals successfully completed the American citizenship process [...]
Q: How long is the American Citizenship process? A: Once you have been a US permanent resident green card holder for the requisite number of years, the American naturalization process, or American citizenship process, begins when the naturalization attorney files of the citizenship application (N-400) at the proper citizenship application lock box facility. See American [...]
Q: How do I get US citizenship through marriage? A: Certain permanent resident green card holders can get US citizenship through marriage to a US citizen via a process called naturalization. US naturalization requirements for an applicant applying for citizenship through marriage differ from those applying through the normal route in the number of years [...]
Q: Can I bring a citizenship lawyer to my US citizenship interview? A: Most US citizenship interviews take place at the USCIS field office closest to where the person applying for US citizenship lives. There are typically two parts to the US citizenship interview. First, the immigration officer reviews the US citizenship application to determine [...]
One question a naturalization lawyer is constantly answering is how to get dual US citizenship without having to renounce citizenship of a foreign country during the naturalization process. Is it possible? Well, it depends. Technically, the US government does not recognize dual US citizenship. However, new US citizens are not really required by the United [...]
To all Citizenship Lawyers & those Applying for Citizenship: The USCIS announced yesterday new filing addresses for the N-400 citizenship application for the Texas and Arizona lockbox facilities, used by citizenship lawyers and those applying for citizenship pro se. The changes take effect immediately. An N-400 citizenship application previously filed at the post office box [...]
A citizenship ceremony is scheduled for 10am today, December 15, 2009, at the National Archives in Washington D.C. in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom. Thirty-five citizenship applicants from 23 countries will take the oath of allegiance and become citizens today. The annual citizenship ceremony is co-sponsored by DC's US District Court and USCIS. Family and [...]
The citizenship requirements for those applying for American citizenship can be broken down into three main categories: citizenship requirements for members of the US military; citizenship requirements for those taking the green card citizenship route; and citizenship requirements for those taking the marriage citizenship route (an off-shoot of the green card citizenship route). The main [...]
