The US doesn't make you renounce citizenships. She can always be a dual citizen, depending on her home country's rules.
that's good! I know they've flip flopped on this issue as my BIL was required to renounce his Canadian citizenship when he became an American, but it's been several years. probably the better part if a decade? Canada allows dual citizenship.
This was actually an issue with Canada and not the US. Canada used to consider the US citizenship oath as a formal renouncement of citizenship. They have since changed that law. The US has never not allowed dual citizenship in the way that a lot of other countries do.
I THINK it is that the US doesn't recognize dual citizenship while other countries do. So you can be a UK/US citizen (or whatever country) for UK purposes, but the US would consider you only a US citizen.
Anyway, congratulations!!!!
Yep. Congrats!!!
These kind of posts always make me happy since I work for CIS.
There is a lot of talk about how people on H1Bs are stealing American jobs and there is a lot of anti-H1B sentiment on both the right and the left.
Once on CEP someone made a flip comment about how you could just hire H1B workers to displace American factory workers which isn't how it works at all. I do know that there is some visa abuse by some IT companies but that doesn't mean that everyone on the visa is unqualified and trying to scam the system. Which if you listened to Bill O Reilly you'd be convinced of.
There have been calls to eliminate the visa category or drastically reduce the number of visas- they're only 65,000 available annually. The year I got mine, they were over subscribed the first day that you could apply for the calendar year and they distributed visas via lottery.
Interesting. I could see this - the company that sponsored H's original visa definitely engages in some shady-ass practices re: visa holders (he was hired at $35k to be a project mgr on multi-billion $$ projects, for instance). And yes, I mean I am sure there are Americans who could do his job, but I am really glad he got the opportunity He does like to tell people he came over to steal jobs and women
Congrats!!! I kind of want to put you in touch with my SIL & brother. You guys have tons in common (& they recently moved back to H so my brother can start his PhD in some kind of Earth science at Rice). Her parents are from the Caribbean & they have 2 little ones too (a boy & girl).
My kids are citizens having both been born here and my husband is now a resident as well.
I'm not eligible to apply for citizenship for 5 years. I'm not sure what I'll do then.
i was going to go back and edit re: your kids. i knew they would be citizens by birth, but that slipped my mind.
i would have a hard time deciding on US citizenship only because i wouldn't want to renounce my natural citizenship. (i'm assuming the US still only recognizes one, yes?) but on the flip side, if you're making it your home and it's where your kids are... idk. hard!
From what I understand, we can have dual citizenships:
"A U.S. national may acquire foreign nationality by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. national may not lose the nationality of the country of birth. U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one nationality or another." - travel.state.gov
ETA: oops, just read second page where this was addressed.
Post by autumnfire on Aug 22, 2014 12:21:37 GMT -5
Congrats! I completed this process 2 1/2 years ago - CR-1 visa (H is American) where I had to wait to be with my H for a year. It's beyond exhausting and lets be honest expensive as all get up.
I'll be applying for citizenship this year some time. I know how elated it feels to have all of this done, even better when the card is in your hands!! Congrats again!! Excited for you.
We're also in the process of applying to Canada for DD's Birth Abroad to get her Canadian Citizenship.
I will be honest there are times where I wish we lived back in Canada.