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I was lucky enough in Ireland that my Dad applied for green cards, for all of us (7). we all got accepted. This was in 1993.

I went into USA Embassy in Dublin...yes sir/no sir, answered questions.

3 months later...can you come back please, we would like to formally accept your request....

Can you please tell us where you are going in the USA? Where are you working? Letter from employee that will pay for work, where are you going to live?

Did all that...worked for company that was notated, flew back to USA...to validate...finger print, face at airport off landing..had serious guards on hand with i assume sub machine guns. Finger prints/ photo...felt like i was in no mans land.

Point is...I am a citizen now, for people that hang on to green cards.....get citizenship now!

I waited 14 years...
 
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I don't really understand this post.

I've had a green card since 1990. Got it from the US Embassy in London. No problems, very smooth process, very well organized.

Get renewal every 10 years. Always a very smooth process. I go to the processing building. They check my records on the computer while I sit there and wait 10 minutes. Ask me a couple of basic questions. Guy goes into the back and comes out with my new card, valid for the next 10 years.

I'm not opposed to becoming a citizen, but why when I can get my children passports for EUR as well as the US (they were born here), and I can live anywhere i want in the years ahead that will take either US or UK passports as long as I maintain my green card status. It gives me and my children a huge array of living and working options.

and all for just a few minutes every 10 years.

The Green Card system is great. I will never become a US citizen. Possibly one big difference between us is that if I take US citizenship I have to give up my UK citizenship. I believe if you are Irish you get to keep both?
 
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Englishman said:
I don't really understand this post.

I've had a green card since 1990. Got it from the US Embassy in London. No problems, very smooth process, very well organized.

Get renewal every 10 years. Always a very smooth process. I go to the processing building. They check my records on the computer while I sit there and wait 10 minutes. Ask me a couple of basic questions. Guy goes into the back and comes out with my new card, valid for the next 10 years.

I'm not opposed to becoming a citizen, but why when I can get my children passports for EUR as well as the US (they were born here), and I can live anywhere i want in the years ahead that will take either US or UK passports as long as I maintain my green card status. It gives me and my children a huge array of living and working options.

and all for just a few minutes every 10 years.

The Green Card system is great. I will never become a US citizen. Possibly one big difference between us is that if I take US citizenship I have to give up my UK citizenship. I believe if you are Irish you get to keep both?
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Yes, we can keep both.
 
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Should Have Just Walked Across the Border and Claimed Americans Are All Bigots and Racist If They Tried To Deport You! Oh Wait , You Are White! Back Of the Line and Wait 14 Years! :0003

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Well, duh. About to brawl with the Dead Rabbits. I end up letting Scratcher kill me for some reason, but the joke is ultimately on him cuz he gets stuck with Cameron Diaz....what a nag.
 
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