US Citizen today
Jan 21, 2002 | 1:05 am
#49
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: New York
Posts: 7,983
Thank you very much for the congrats.
I am very excited about being a US citizen.
After attaining the Permanent Resident status, the first step is to wait. I urge you to keep all your boarding passes and tickets whenever you travelled overseas. My lawyer made it photocopying every single boarding passes. Then remember to pay your taxes on time... Remember the US has a worldwide tax policy. They will ask you about tax on your interview... Then after five years, you will fill out a form called the N400, which can be otained at the www.ins.gov website. Then there will be tons of details for you to fill in and then you will wait for your fingerprinting session. It takes a couple months, and then -- receiving a letter for the date of your interview. Now you will have to study a bit of US history. You will be provided 100 questions and you basically study them. You will answer ten questions in the interview. Finally, you head to the interview... wait and wait... then they will ask you many, many questions... If you pass, they will congratulate you and you will wait for your swear-in ceremony.
The process is not too bad... just many paperworks.
About US passport, I will head off to the Wilshire office on Tuesday. I am just so glad that I don't need a visa to Japan and Taiwan anymore.
Thank you everyone and Carfield will return to the sky on Wednesday with a five day crazy mileage runs to the Nation's capital. I will fly AS' all 4 flights to DC and back. ONly for $300RT for each DC RT from SEA -- web special, and first class all the way.
Love,
Carfield
I am very excited about being a US citizen.
After attaining the Permanent Resident status, the first step is to wait. I urge you to keep all your boarding passes and tickets whenever you travelled overseas. My lawyer made it photocopying every single boarding passes. Then remember to pay your taxes on time... Remember the US has a worldwide tax policy. They will ask you about tax on your interview... Then after five years, you will fill out a form called the N400, which can be otained at the www.ins.gov website. Then there will be tons of details for you to fill in and then you will wait for your fingerprinting session. It takes a couple months, and then -- receiving a letter for the date of your interview. Now you will have to study a bit of US history. You will be provided 100 questions and you basically study them. You will answer ten questions in the interview. Finally, you head to the interview... wait and wait... then they will ask you many, many questions... If you pass, they will congratulate you and you will wait for your swear-in ceremony.
The process is not too bad... just many paperworks.
About US passport, I will head off to the Wilshire office on Tuesday. I am just so glad that I don't need a visa to Japan and Taiwan anymore.
Thank you everyone and Carfield will return to the sky on Wednesday with a five day crazy mileage runs to the Nation's capital. I will fly AS' all 4 flights to DC and back. ONly for $300RT for each DC RT from SEA -- web special, and first class all the way.
Love,
Carfield
Jan 22, 2002 | 7:27 am
#53
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Copenhagen
Programs: British Airways Gold (oneWorld Emerald), Starwood Preferred Guest Platinum
Posts: 1,713
That's wonderful Carfield! (since I kind of take it that you are of the opinion that being a US citizen is something positive)
What nationality were you before?
What nationality were you before?
