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Originally Posted by Rogue414
Instant citizenship? highly doubt it. Even if an immigrant has a green card, during war time the process for obtaining citizenship is roughly 3 years instead of 5, in some cases 2 years because some jobs mandate security clearance(Computer jobs, MPs, etc, etc). Even if you're right, this doesn't do shit for me, if it just includes Army. oh and being deployed isn't a bad thing, My roommate just got back from Qatar and he made 35k in just 4 months, and he currently works at Join Base Andrews, MD.
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Actually, it pretty much is instantaneous unless they change the rules and apply them differently to DREAMers, which is an entirely different legal/moral issue. Should they leave the rules in place as they are now, the EO from 2002 allows you to file for your citizenship after only
one day of active duty.
Now they have a process that allows you to start the process at basic training. If you're lucky, within six months you'll be a citizen.
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USCIS established the Naturalization at Basic Training Initiative in August 2009 with the Army to give noncitizen enlistees the opportunity to naturalize when they graduate from basic training. Under this initiative, USCIS conducts all naturalization processing including the capture of biometrics, the naturalization interview and administration of the Oath of Allegiance on the military base. Since 2009 USCIS has expanded the initiative to the Navy, Air Force, and finally to the Marine Corps in 2013, giving enlistees of all branches an equal opportunity to (in most cases) leave basic training as U.S. citizens.
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About 1,000 soldiers and sailors completed the citizenship process at basic training sites in fiscal year 2010, which ended Sept. 30. About 660 have been able to complete it in the first six months of this fiscal year, said Chris Rhatigan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Washington.
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What they are not telling us is that you have to serve for at
minimum 5 years or risk having your citizenship revoked.
The silver lining in all of this is that if you meet the requirements, make it out of boot camp and manage to pay the fees, some of us will be able to file for our parents within a short window of time (they are citizens by 2016/2017 vs whatever is in CIR if it is passed). And considering the penalties the Republicans want them to pay (i.e. going before a judge) this may be a better option for a lot of mixed status families.
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