Come to the United States for many years, finally solve the identity problem, get the legal identity.
But! Don't think it's all right to get a green card? Don't be careless.
If these things are not taken care of, the Immigration Service is likely to cancel your green card.
Let you experience the feeling of "cooked duck flying". Not only that, even if you get a green card and want to switch to an citizen, you'll have to wait until you're upset.
Immigration lawer said the speed of green card to citizen has slowed significantly, and the long time span is not the only surprising detail.
Green card to citizen, application time up to 22 months
Houston-based Mr. Wang, who has been in possession of the U.S. Green Card for more than a decade, has decided to move from permanent resident to citizen. But after he had submitted his application and printed his fingerprints.
Systematic information from the Department of Homeland Security told him that the waiting time for acceptance was expected to take 22 months.
Mr. Wang said the application for citizen was due to a number of considerations, one of the important factors is to be eligible to vote, using the vote to voice the voice of the Chinese.
Lawer, a Chinese immigrant in Houston, said that in previous years, applications for green card to citizen would normally be informed about three months after fingerprints to take the next citizen naturalization test.
From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, waiting time has generally become about a year or more.
Lawer says Trump government doesn't want more people to turn to citizen to vote. She revealed that her lawer peers had encountered other situations that showed that the overall difficulty of moving green cards to citizen was increasing.
How hard it is to turn green card to citizen
Paid for lawer, the interview's still good.
At the end of August, Mr. Liu interviewed Mr. Liu for the second phase of the Green Card to citizen interview, reviewing basic personal information.
To ensure that the final link was safe, he spent $1000 on four-hour interview training at the immigration agency and hired an lawer to accompany him to the official interview.
On the day of the interview, lawer was Hispanic and didn't respond or even say hello to the interviewer.
Not only did it take half an hour to ask almost all the prepared material questions, but also the tricky question of "are you a Nazi?"? The result of the interview failed.
Mr. Liu, a Chinese, was rejected during a naturalization interview, and even worse than him, he was withdrawn from the United States' citizen status after naturalization.
5 naturalized persons revoked as United States citizen
On November 21, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a law lawsuit against five immigrants who had acquired U.S. citizenship for more than a decade, seeking to revoke their citizen status in the United States.
They were alleged to have "withheld the facts of sexual abuse's minor victims in the process of naturalization and thus illegally acquired citizen status in the United States."
It is reported that the Department of Justice minister Jeff. Any immigration fraud would undermine the integrity of the U.S. immigration system and betray the tolerance of the American people, Sessions Jeff Sessions said in a statement, "especially when it comes to sexual abuse children."
According to the Department of Justice, under the Immigration and nationality Act (Immigration and Nationality Act), naturalized persons may revoke their United States nationality if they are found to have illegally acquired citizen status by withholding information.
Stricter naturalization checks have serious consequences
More than 7.4 million immigrants have been naturalized in the United States over the past decade, according to (USCIS), the citizen and Immigration Service. In addition, countless people are on their way to acquiring American citizenship.
The Immigration Act, INA §340, expressly provides that upon becoming a citizen, the Immigration Board will revoke its citizen status if it is found to be false, deceptive and other acts that do not qualify for naturalization.
Therefore, when applying for naturalization, the naturalization qualification and relevant materials must not be deceived and falsified. Otherwise, once serious consequences are discovered, not only naturalization will be rejected or revoked afterwards, but even green cards may be rejected when green cards are revoked or updated.
He returned to China three times in five years, but he was denied his naturalization with a green card.
Gao Jun (alias), a Chinese-born male who applied for naturalization earlier this year, moved to Chicago three years ago and received written refusal from the Immigration Service last month.
The letter says Gao Jun was jailed by persecution in China when he applied for a green card, but told immigration officials that he had not been in prison in China, and the Immigration Bureau therefore decided that his information was false and did not allow naturalization.
During the oral interview, the immigration officer asked you why you had been given a political asylum green card because of persecution in your home country. Why did you return to your home country many times?. Although the Chinese man tried to explain, he was eventually denied naturalization, and this failed Chinese naturalization was denied citizenship. After getting the green card, he returned to China three times.
Marriage green card lies, cancels citizen identity.
In 2014, Zhong Jie (Jie Zhong, a Chinese immigrant from (Danville) in Danville, San Francisco Bay area, was sentenced to revoke citizen status in the United States for impersonating immigration procedures.
Chung entered the United States on a visa in 1999. In 2006, his second American wife helped him apply to become a legal resident, and he became a naturalized citizen in March 2010.
The court said evidence showed that Chung continued to live with his first wife, a non-American citizen, during his 18-month marriage to his second wife. And never lived with a second wife, but paid her to get a green card faster. In the end, he was sentenced to cancel his citizen status.
Since Mr Trump took office, the questions that can be seen during interviews with immigration officers have become more difficult, speaking fast and unwilling to repeat, so applicants who do not speak well in English tend to "lose" as a result.
Lawer complained about a case in which the immigration officer said "yes" when he was at the scene, but received a notice that he "failed" and asked the applicant to take the exam again. As a result, many lawer have a common feeling that immigration is using a variety of means to prevent people from obtaining identity.
If a green card holder commits a criminal offence, he or she can be deported for that reason, and the U.S. government is now arresting people who have a legal status but have a bad record. But in the case of citizen, there is no such risk.