Should the children of illegal immigrants be granted American citizenship, if they are born in the United States?
I think they should be granted citizenship because overall, it's better for the U.S. that way. These children are born in this country and we spend tax dollars to educate them and send them to school for the first several years of their life. Once they graduate and are looking to get a job, they can't, because oops! they're not legal citizens. They can try and get citizenship but will likely be deported and thus all the tax money we put into educating them goes down the drain and all the skills they learned here in the U.S, they apply in the country their parents are from. It's a lose/lose situation for everyone. We spend time, money and resources educating students that we then send to lead successful lives somewhere else.Plus, we're essentially punishing children for something they played no part in. They didn't get to choose where they were born. I know that when we think of illegal immigrants, we think of children from Mexico, but those aren't the only immigrants. They could have had parents that left somewhere like Afghanistan or parts of Africa and then we're going to take an 18 year old kid, born and raised in the U.S. and deport him/her to Afghanistan because his/her parents did a bad thing and didn't get legal citizenship? We could be sending teenagers to countries where they don't even speak the language. They were born in America. They were raised in America. They're Americans plain and simple. There is no logic in punishing children for crimes that they didn't commit. When parents make mistakes, we don't send their children to jail. So when parents immigrate illegally, we don't deport their native born children to strange, foreign countries with no means to survive.
Does giving birth to a child in the United States affect one's chance of obtaining a green card / citizenship?
As in all things legal, it depends. If the question involves the issue of “anchor babies,” then no, having a child born in the United States gives the parents nothing. Once the child is an adult of 21 years, the child has the right to petition for a visa for the parents to become permanent residents (green card holders). However, the parents must prove that they have the required good moral character to become a permanent resident.If the parent of a US citizen child is able to prove to an immigration judge that the child will suffer “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” if the parent is not permitted to live in the US, AND the parent has resided in the US for at least 10 years before a charging document is issued by ICE or CIS against them initiating removal proceedings, THEN the judge MAY grant the parent a green card. However, once again, the parent must also show good moral character, as well as positive discretionary factors, to convince the judge that the US community would benefit by their presence in the US as green card holders
Canadian mother, American father, Children born in USA, Can they have dual citizenship? If so, how to get it?
They already have dual citizenship. Any child of a Canadian citizen who was born in Canada is a Canadian citizen from birth. To have proof of that, the children need to get a Canadian citizenship card. Full instructions on how to get one are here http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/citizenship...
Should the children of Illegal Aliens be given US citzenship?
The current policy of the US government is to give citizenship to the children of illegal aliens based on what I believe is an incorrect interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Many illegal alien women come to this country and get free medical care, and then they apply for welfare for their child. If they are caught by ICE, they state that you can't deport me because my child is a US citizen! This really pisses me off. What is your opinion?
My infant is a US citizen. Can I leverage that in a way to stay in the USA after my work visa expires?
Not really, no. There are no provisions in US immigration law that provide the parent of a US citizen who is a minor any means to be admitted to the United States. If removing the citizen’s noncitizen parent would cause “extreme hardship” to the minor, USCIS may grant humanitarian parole, but this is the exception, not the rule. However, for this to apply, you’d really have to be in the situation where your child would be subjected to extreme poverty or otherwise unsafe conditions (e.g. the country you are from is in the middle of a civil war) should you return to your home country with your child, or if your child would not be admitted to your home country due to its immigration policy. Unless one of these exceptional conditions apply to your situation, you should expect that you will need to return to your home country when your work authorization expires.
A baby was born in the United States to foreign parents, but the parents did not explicitly request US citizenship for the baby. Was the baby automatically a US citizen, or was the baby only granted his rights to request a US citizenship?
The child is granted US Citizenship, but with recent law changes they can stay in the country if they have family members that can take care of them in the US.If they don’t though, they will get sen’t back to their origin country with their parents. Although, once they reach 18–21 they can come back to the United States and if they can pay for their parents and host them; then the parent’s can then come over from their country and legally immigrate.They had to change the law recently because in California rich-medium wealth tourist/visa holders were having babies in the state and were being granted citizen ship, but the issue was that people were making motels just for this people.Surprisingly people began protesting this, (What a surprise eh?) and had the authorities find petty things like code violations to shut the places down until the law was changed.Sources : Immigration: The Myth Of The 'Anchor Baby'
How can i fix my parents papers if they are illegeal in this country?
You can if you are US citizen. Permanent residents do not qualify. They have to go voluntarily back to their country of origin and you have to issue a petition for them. Check the website below: Quote from USCIS website: Bringing Parents to Live in the United States as Permanent Residents Eligibility To bring your parents (mother or father) to live in the United States as a permanent resident (green card holder), you must be a U.S. citizen and at least 21 years old. Note: Permanent residents may not bring parents to live permanently in the United States.
If a child is born in the US, how long do the parents have to live in the US with the baby to obtain citizenship?
Zero seconds.A person born in the US is a US citizen. Period. That person must do absolutely nothing to “sustain” or “maintain” their citizenship other than continue to be alive. US citizenship by birth in the territory of the United States is revocable only by death.Somebody came along and edited the question after I answered it, making my answer nonresponsive to the question as it now stands. So here I shall extend my remarks to my answer to cover the question as amended.The parents of a child who is a US citizen by birth obtain no immigration benefit by virtue of being the parent of a US citizen. The only way that their citizen child could help them in obtaining citizenship occurs after the child turns 21. At this point, if the child is then resident in the United States and of sufficient means, he or she can, if she wishes, sponsor either or both of his or her parents to immigrate to the United States.If the child elects to do this, the parents will (after administrative processing which takes about a year to complete) receive green cards that allow them to reside in the United States, and then, after five years of living in the United States, may seek naturalization and become US citizens themselves. Thus, the process takes, at a bare minimum, 26 years, and in practice closer to at least 28, given the glacially slow pace with which USCIS processes green card and naturalization petitions.If the child elects not to do this, the parents will not be allowed to immigrate or naturalize. The parents cannot force their child to sponsor them, and have no right to seek an immigrant visa on their own if their child refuses to sponsor them, or is, for some reason, ineligible or otherwise unable to do so.