Are You Planning To be Citizen? Get Acquainted With Its Benefits

Citizenship is a grade given to the legal members of United States. US citizenship provides certain rights, duties, privileges and economic benefits including federal assistance. USCIS is responsible for administration of immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establishing immigration service's policies and priorities.

There are many advantages of taking US citizenship like you get the authority to vote, you can also apply for federal jobs and have a well paid salary, you also become authorized for applying for government aides programs such as the food aid, medical care, social security, food stamps, cash support, non medical services and many more assistance programs that are the rights of US citizen and can make your stay unperturbed in US.

There are various ways by which you can get citizenship for yourself:
If you are Born In US then a birth certificate is issued by US state of territorial government becomes the evidence of citizenship is usually accepted as proof of citizenship.

Secondly if you are born abroad but you have parents have US citizenship then the child automatically has the rights of US citizenship, in this case both parents will have be US citizens at the time of Child's birth or at least one parent lived in United states prior to child's birth. Therefore if you are born abroad then will have to be registered with US consulate of embassy in proof of US citizenship. You can even apply for passport or certificate of citizenship to have their citizenship recognized by the US government.

If the child is born abroad with one parent United States citizen then any person born after 14th November 1986 will automatically be an US citizenship holder if he fulfills the eligibility criteria of one of the person's parents are US citizen when the child is born. Moreover the citizen's parents should have lived a minimum of five years in the United States before the child's birth.

But if the person is not US born and does not have US citizen parents then he can get his US citizenship through the process of naturalization. For naturalization you will have to be minimum 18 years of age, you should have a legal permanent address in United States for minimum of 5 years, you should have a good moral character and good working knowledge of English and pass test of US history and government.