There are various ways one can obtain citizenship in the United States. These ways are coming to the U.S. as a visitor, an illegal alien who could get general amnesty, as a student, political refugee like the people from Cosovo, and lastly as a sponsored person. U.S. citizens who plan on sponsoring a person from a foreign country must be able to prove that they can financially take care of the person. This proof is through bank statements, house notes etc. If the person cannot take care of the person then the foreign person may not enter this country, which is one worry the person from another country may have. Any person who comes into the country in any one of these ways has to go through the same process of becoming a permanent resident of the United States.
When a person decides to come to the U.S. they first must obtain a visa. Even if you are just visiting, the United States has a Visitors Visa. With each condition listed in the beginning, there are specific visas. For exampl
The process is long and may seem to take forever to the people who are going through it. There also may be times when a person is not able to become a citizen because the country they are from may have to many people in that particular country becoming U.S. citizens. It is speculated that the U.S. assigns a certain number of visas to each country to reduce the overflow of foreign people in the U.S. When a person wants to obtain a visa from their country it is similar to the lottery. The country is able to pick and choose who gets the visas to come to the U.S. People in these countries are willing to go through this long process because they feel it is worth the wait. From what my father says, it is worth the wait because people do not know how bad it is in some third world countries and when you can have a chance to better yourself it is worth the wait.
The next step after getting a visa is obtaining a green card. A person coming as a student has an easier chance of obtaining the green card because
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