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Bruce R Leech
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Congrats to you and your wife, Woody.
Bruce R Leech
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flyfishinPam
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congratulations to your wife!
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that honor belongs to my wife. today at golden hall in san diego.
now she won't be as worried as i drag her down most every dirt road in baja with her soon-to-be-new-US passport. she used to be wary of traveling on
her Peruvian passport.
we're going to the post office today to get our passport apps in the expedited, pay double line!!!!
i told her she will be subject to kidnappings for ransom, etc...while on the toll road.
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I can certainly understand becoming a citizen on one's new country especially when one has a husband and children in their new country.
I am curious as I am going through the process to become a Mexican citizen,
What is required to become an American citizen?
roughly how long does it take and roughly how much cost is involved?
I think citizens of a country usually don't know what citizenship to their own conutry requires because they don't have to go through these processes
unless a person that is close to them is goes through it.
[Edited on 5-22-2008 by flyfishinPam]
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woody with a view
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we post marked and paid extra for certified mail as the application must be marked by a certain date (almost a year ago) before the cost to apply
doubled. our cost was $400.00 nonrefundable. my wife has been in country 35 years on a resident alien "green card". after applying and finally having
her interview in jan of this year she was told the final determination would be made by someone higher up (read: brushes with the law 12 and 20 years
ago) and we'd get the letter in 3-4 weeks.
well, 3 months passed and hopes dimmed with each trip to the mailbox. finally, about 3 weeks ago we received "the letter" from DHS. my wife wouldn't
open it so it was up to me and, all praise to Neptune!!!!!
"You are hereby notified to appear for a Naturalization Oath Ceremony on:
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
crt: US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE US
202 C STREET -ROOM GOLDENHALL'
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
SAN DIEGO CONCOURSE BUILDING, NONE, NONE
Please report promptly at 7:30AM"
suffice to say she was a blubbering mess most of the day!!!!
about 4 hours for the ceremony and that's it!
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flyfishinPam
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That seems much easier than Mexico's requiement for citizenship. Cheaper and more efficieient too. I assume there is a minimum time to be residing
in the USA legally before one can apply and your wife could have applied earlier. So from start to finish is looks like it took about a year and
three months? No test?
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woody with a view
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3 years to apply.
50 questions of which she was asked 4-5 randomly.
questions like who are your state senators? what do the stars on the flag represent? what are the 3 branches of gov't.
pretty simple stuff considering any ripe mango can memrize 50 questions and answers....
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flyfishinPam
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Ok a legal foreign resident has to live in the USA for three years before applying for citizenship. cost is about $400 non-refundable and they have
to memorize fifty questions and answers of which they will be asked 4-5 randomly. Sounds like a piece of cake. I ask this becuse I am curious, does
that test have to be given and taken in English only or are there options to take in in other languages?
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woody with a view
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now it's $7-800. the booklet you download from the internet is in english. you have to show a proficiency in english but that could mean being able to
read the street signs to show up for your appointments....
my wife was interviewed in english but there were others who had a third person go with them inside to interview (interpretor?) and i wasn't allowed
to.
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BAJACAT
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Congrats for your wife Woody, I became a US citizen on MAY 21 of 2001,and Im proud to say IM and MEXICAN-AMERICAN
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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bajalera
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Congrats to your wife and you, too, Woody!
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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woody with a view
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update
today we each applied for new u.s. passports and border crossing cards. +/- $123 each and a 3-4 week wait for the passports and the ship date for the
border crossing cards is "july or august"!!!
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woody with a view
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up-update
applied for them on 6-27 and received both of our passports 7-9-08. date of issue was july 2nd. so it took 5 days to issue new passports and another
week to ship and receive them, all on the standard price (no rush delivery).
god, this country ROCKS!!!!!!!
now we're just waiting for our "border crossing cards".
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David K
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Congrats Woody!
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