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In other words it's a necessary stepping stone to getting citizenship. Sorry for getting this thread off topic. |
I don't see your point, KirStang, flawed as it is (your dad can be a US citizen too).
Residency is residency. Citizenship is citizenship. They're mutually exclusive. Residency may lead to citizenship but not necessarily. The rights and obligations are very different for each. |
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Point being, citizenship can be acquired through investment... Quote:
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Having financial means can make the difference of getting a visa to stay here to get to the green card point, but I think that there's a big difference to the idea that just because you can invest in property, company, American stock, you can get a path to citizenship. |
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IIRC Congress sets aside something like 10,000 investment visas a year, many which end up unused. So, a Mexican with millions of dollars, who thinks he can start a business in the USA, can apply and legally obtain a immigrant visa. ---------- Post added at 12:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:57 AM ---------- USCIS - Green Card Through Investment Quote:
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KirStang, I think that it's important to emphasis the "path to citizenship" part, as in there's more than that one step. There are a lot more, and as Cyn pointed out, there's a lot more to it than simply opening a qualifying business here.
That said, I think it's interesting how someone that I keep waiting to spam us has gotten us off on this tangent. Remember this is the same guy that said that Quote:
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10/10. Although I did have to formulate two different answers based on what Question Five might be, since it was unclear if they wanted rights of US citizens as opposed to elsewhere, or rights of citizens as opposed to resident aliens.
Still, easy test, I thought. |
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the $1M investment for creating a business.
Any figures of how many actually get dispensed in this manner? That means there's 50,000 jobs created every year but this action. |
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I just wanted to clarify the little known provision. Again, did not mean to sidetrack the thread from the citizenship test (which I would probably fail :)) |
Anyway, in my opinion it is utterly irrelevant that someone seeking to settle in the US understands or cares about its constitution
The appropriate things to test are: Can they speak and understand the language they will need to use? Do they understand the laws and customers they will be expected to live by? _ If someone comes in from Netherlands to be a research scientist, what possible vaue or difference to her views on the "Federalist Papers" have? Simply making people sit an exam on arbitary information about the structure of government serves only the function of not letting in people who cant be bothered to revise. |
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. |
The laws that matter are to do with property, personal protection, etc... it isnt relevant how many members are in the house of representatives.
I doubt 1 in 100 UK citizens could tell you how many MPs there were in the UK parliament, how many peers in the House of Lords, how many MSP's etc etc... The constitution doesnt make much of a difference to normal people's lives, even though it is considered a semi-religious document in the US. |
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