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Congratulations to more than 14,000 new American citizens! Welcome!
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-rele...ion-ceremonies
Celebrating Independence Day 2018 with Naturalization Ceremonies
Versión en español
On July 4, we celebrate our nation’s 242nd birthday and the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
USCIS marks Independence Day with naturalization ceremonies across the country. This year, we will welcome more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.
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This is the way it's done.
How else would YOU want it done?
Congratulations to more than 14,000 new American citizens! Welcome!
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-rele...ion-ceremonies
Celebrating Independence Day 2018 with Naturalization Ceremonies
Versión en español
On July 4, we celebrate our nation’s 242nd birthday and the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
USCIS marks Independence Day with naturalization ceremonies across the country. This year, we will welcome more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.
View attachment 67235685
This is the way it's done.
How else would YOU want it done?
I don't understand the question. I said that this is the way it's done. As in 'the right way'.
Okydokey!
I don't understand the question. I said that this is the way it's done. As in 'the right way'.
Very cool! When my wife became a citizen we didn't even know it was going to be that particular day. We went for yet another routine appointment at the federal building and at the end if the meeting, the person we were talking to told us to come back after lunch to be sworn in. It was still a neat ceremony, we enjoyed it very much.Congratulations to more than 14,000 new American citizens! Welcome!
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-rele...ion-ceremonies
Celebrating Independence Day 2018 with Naturalization Ceremonies
Versión en español
On July 4, we celebrate our nation’s 242nd birthday and the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
USCIS marks Independence Day with naturalization ceremonies across the country. This year, we will welcome more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.
View attachment 67235685
This is the way it's done.
Congratulations to more than 14,000 new American citizens! Welcome!
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-rele...ion-ceremonies
Celebrating Independence Day 2018 with Naturalization Ceremonies
Versión en español
On July 4, we celebrate our nation’s 242nd birthday and the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
USCIS marks Independence Day with naturalization ceremonies across the country. This year, we will welcome more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.
View attachment 67235685
This is the way it's done.
Naturalization used to be a very simple process. Newcomers would arrive at Ellis Island. There, they would wait in a long line and get a health inspection. Afterwards, they would get an interview from the immigration service about potential destinations and job prospects. If the immigrant failed either the health inspection or the interview, he would be placed in detention for an eventual hearing. About 10% of all arrivals had detentions with hearings and only 2% were deported. Overall, this process would take a little more than a day for most cases and certainly no more than a year, assuming no deportation was involved.
https://classroom.synonym.com/proce...ugh-arrived-ellis-island-late-1800s-9519.html
Those were the old days.
Now, you have to follow more complicated procedures which can be found on the official website
https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...rate/the-immigrant-visa-process/petition.html
But the real problems come from the waiting times which vary by country. In a best case scenario, it will take over a year to be fully naturalized. It can take up to 33 years.
https://cis.org/Vaughan/Waiting-List-Legal-Immigrant-Visas-Keeps-Growing
Old world: Less people in the world at most 1 billion with only about 5 million inhabiting the US. Lots of open space. Far more resources available per person.
Today's world: More people in the world 7.6 billion with 325 million in the US. More resources required per person. Less space available.
Why wouldn't immigration of today be more complex than it was in the time of Ellis Island? Today's world is far more complex than it was back then.
Congratulations to more than 14,000 new American citizens! Welcome!
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-rele...ion-ceremonies
Celebrating Independence Day 2018 with Naturalization Ceremonies
Versión en español
On July 4, we celebrate our nation’s 242nd birthday and the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
USCIS marks Independence Day with naturalization ceremonies across the country. This year, we will welcome more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.
View attachment 67235685
This is the way it's done.
Old world: Less people in the world at most 1 billion with only about 5 million inhabiting the US. Lots of open space. Far more resources available per person.
Today's world: More people in the world 7.6 billion with 325 million in the US. More resources required per person. Less space available.
Why wouldn't immigration of today be more complex than it was in the time of Ellis Island? Today's world is far more complex than it was back then.
expand it to any one who wants to be a citizen and is not a violent criminal and that will be the way it should be done
As for out world becoming more complicated, that may justify more complicated procedures but how does it justify the very long wait times?
unless you have a population cap in mind for the country that you want to hold citizens to as well just sounds like a bull**** excuse
but i believe your fear and greed at least
expand it to any one who wants to be a citizen and is not a violent criminal and that will be the way it should be done
It already is. :shrug:
More complicated procedures generally means more time in going through those procedures. There are a multitude of reasons for it taking so long. Plain fact of the matter is that there isn't some grand conspiracy to keep people out of the US. In a complicated world, things are going to take time. Can it be streamlined? Most certainly it can. Wish it were. But in the end it is what it is.
I have no population cap in mind period. My comment was solely about Masterhawk's complaint about how in the old world immigration was easy while today its complicated. There was no other "ulterior" motive. That is of your own making, not mine. However even if I were talking about some sort of cap on the amount of people entering the US and becoming citizens...so what? That is our choice to make and we have that Right to as this is OUR country. OUR home. We can choose to invite as many, or as little people as we want. There is no Right to come into the US, or any other country in the world, willy nilly any more than there is a Right for complete strangers to enter your home willy nilly.
It is. Anyone who wants to become a citizen can do the same thing.
How else would YOU want it done?
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