How To Apply For U.S. Citizenship

Attitudes and laws around U.S. immigration have vacillated between welcoming and restrictive since the country's beginning. In this video, Immigration Lawyer Carl Shusterman , a former INS Attorney (1976-82) whose lawyers have assisted thousands of persons across the US in obtaining temporary visas, permanent residence and US citizenship for over 30 years, explains what you should look for in choosing an immigration attorney to represent you.

United States law permits a person to have multiple citizenship Citizens of other countries who are naturalized as United States citizens may retain their citizenship in their native country, but they must renounce allegiance, or loyalty, to the other country.

It also provides protections for orphans, widows, children, and Filipino veterans who fought alongside the United States in World War II. Lastly, the bill allows immigrants with approved family-sponsorship petitions to join family in the United States on a temporary basis while they wait for green cards to become available.

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Once granted American citizenship, foreign-born persons are granted the right to vote, the right to government jobs, the right to apply for resident immigration laws in the Us status for VI family members and the freedom to travel with an American passport which provides entry without a visa into many countries.