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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: duckman2000 on July 09, 2009, 08:48:45 PM

Title: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 09, 2009, 08:48:45 PM: :american
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Mr. Gundam on July 09, 2009, 08:59:35 PM: Huh? You get citizenship or something?
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 09, 2009, 09:05:14 PM: how duckman requisitioned his groove back

what are you, a grade 36
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 09, 2009, 09:13:05 PM: Time to eat american foods and gain 800lbs
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 09, 2009, 09:16:14 PM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 09, 2009, 09:13:05 PM
Time to eat american foods and gain 800lbs

I've gained 40 over the last 8 years (well, it feels like 40), and it ain't muscle mass. :american
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 09, 2009, 09:23:30 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on July 09, 2009, 09:16:14 PM
Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 09, 2009, 09:13:05 PM
Time to eat american foods and gain 800lbs

I've gained 40 over the last 8 years (well, it feels like 40), and it ain't muscle mass. :american

You'll fit in just fine, duckman.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 09, 2009, 09:42:09 PM: congrats
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Bocsius on July 09, 2009, 10:19:42 PM: 8 years of bureaucracy and all it took was 1 verse of God Bless the USA to seal the deal.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Tieno on July 10, 2009, 05:19:10 AM: Now you can no longer be part of elite cultured Europe.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Reb on July 10, 2009, 06:09:27 AM: Booooo!
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 10, 2009, 11:43:31 AM: Quote from: Tieno on July 10, 2009, 05:19:10 AM
Now you can no longer be part of elite cultured Europe.

:bow Dual citizenship :bow2
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: muckhole on July 10, 2009, 01:13:33 PM: Good stuff, congratulations!

8 years, wow. Is that normal? I'm pretty ignorant of U.S. immigration wait times etc.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: Kestastrophe on July 10, 2009, 01:57:03 PM: I am not sure what the normal naturalization process is, but I have an aunt from Columbia and it took her 13 or so years before she became a citizen, even though she had already married my natural citizen uncle and had 2 kids.

Also, I have a friend from Bahrain that has had a hell of a time going from a student visa to a green card. He wants to become a citizen, but it sounds like the odds are slim to none :-\
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 10, 2009, 03:14:09 PM: The actual citizenship deal was actually less complicated than everything before it. The processing time for my original internship visa was 12 months, and even then I was at the mercy of the border officers, who all have the power to turn you away for any reason and who have no obligation to explain why. The general attitude of immigration here, from the border to regional and national offices, is "we work in mysterious ways," and it's almost possible to find out what is going on at any time during processing.

Honestly, if they are honest in wanting to streamline this system, they should start by looking at the regional offices. But I think it's opaque and nested for a reason, to intimidate applicants.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 11, 2009, 02:05:22 PM: Woohoo, got my US passport today! :american
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on July 11, 2009, 02:41:11 PM: Quote from: a slime appears on July 10, 2009, 01:04:53 PM
Quote from: duckman2000 on July 10, 2009, 11:43:31 AM
Quote from: Tieno on July 10, 2009, 05:19:10 AM
Now you can no longer be part of elite cultured Europe.

:bow Dual citizenship :bow2
Going to be doing that soon myself.

Which nationalities? There's a passage in the oath that technically undermines the whole dual citizenship thing, but as long as there is peace between the EU and the US, I'm fine.
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: demi on July 11, 2009, 06:49:32 PM: Mr. Slime is of Spanish descent
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: duckman2000 on August 20, 2009, 02:41:47 PM: This certainly made crossing borders a hell of a lot smoother. :bow Dual citizenship :bow2
Title: Re: 8 years of bureaucracy later
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on August 20, 2009, 02:55:46 PM: They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ...