Naturalization

Naturalized as a United States Citizen

If you are a lawful permanent resident, you should undertake to be naturalized as a United States Citizen as soon as possible.

Yet many people are LPR’s for many years and do not take advantage of the possibility of citizenship.

If you have been delaying in your applications, let us help you complete it. You would never leave a hole in the roof because you think that it will never rain again. LPR status can be taken away. To secure all that you have built, obtain citizenship.

According to a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News:

Newer immigrants are moving more quickly into citizenship than those who became permanent residents in the 1970s and 1980s.

Among Asian immigrants who received their green cards in the early 1990s, from 53 percent to 59 percent went on to become citizens within 10 years, up from about 44 percent among Asians who got green cards in the early 1980s. And while only about 20 percent of Mexican immigrants receiving green cards in the 1990s became citizens within a decade, Mexican immigrants "exhibited the greatest relative increase in (naturalization) rates," said the report, released this week.

From welfare and immigration reform acts of the mid-1990s, to travel restrictions and distrust of foreigners after the Sept. 11 attacks, to rising immigration fees and a perception of increasing hostility to immigrants, immigrant rights groups agree the distinction between legal permanent resident and citizen has widened.

More Worthwhile To Become A Citizen

"Within the last 10 years, it's become more worthwhile to become a citizen," said Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center, whose research also suggests a surge in citizenship among newer immigrants. "There are a number of things that are not available to legal immigrants that used to be, and there are some protections available to citizens that didn't used to be so necessary."

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