I Became a U.S. Citizen Today!

[Tismael711]

Congrats!

[PeteD]

Nice Congratulations! Great story, glad to see the sacrifice and hardwork paid off.

[Rau]

Thanks! And that's awesome, I know the hardest part was the Green Card process but it should be a bit easier from there. Good luck to her!

She already has her green card and is a permanent resident of the US. Almost there.

[Sagaris]

Congrats! You are now entitled to get fat and sue everyone!!!!

[freeride53]

Great story dude, that's the kind of stuff that makes me proud to be an American.
My own dad came to this country from his native Iran when he was 18, with no money, not knowing English. Went to Utah State, then to Cal Poly SLO, double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, top of his class.
He's never been back to his home & native country since that day that he left back in 1969. My dad is my idol in life, I strive to be like him everyday.

In fact, today I'm giving a speech on him in my Public speaking Gen ed class..

[nickflic3]

nice! how was the test? my wife is going to take it next year.

it's good to hear stories about hard working people that busted their asses and did something with themselves, instead of complaining about how bad they have it (hah!)





.....meanwhile, somewhere on the west coast, some kid living in his parents $750,000 house borrowed their Mercedes to go buy some pot so he could sit around and get high while playing video games and eating cheetos.. oh man, how can he survive under those conditions? :|

hahaha yeah I know too many of those

The test is easy as pie, I learned everything in my years of American schooling aha they should give you some sort of study book that has questions and answers that they choose from (like 5 or 6)

Congratulations OP. Thanks for not being an ass hat immigrant. Now, lets go celebrate at the gun range and eat some Big mac's! But first, lets drink these beers.

:D

hahaha thanks I'll take you up on the gun range part, always wanted to go lol

Great story dude, that's the kind of stuff that makes me proud to be an American.
My own dad came to this country from his native Iran when he was 18, with no money, not knowing English. Went to Utah State, then to Cal Poly SLO, double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, top of his class.
He's never been back to his home & native country since that day that he left back in 1969. My dad is my idol in life, I strive to be like him everyday.

In fact, today I'm giving a speech on him in my Public speaking Gen ed class..

Nice dude, yeah just goes to show it's not always smooth sailing coming here as an immigrant. Props to your Dad! Hope the speech went well

[Sailor37]

good job!

So, did you have to wait until you were 18 to start applying for citizenship? just curious why it took almost 19 years.

[2002maniac]

congrats!

[nickflic3]

Thanks everyone haha

good job!

So, did you have to wait until you were 18 to start applying for citizenship? just curious why it took almost 19 years.

I didn't have to wait but the jist of it is that Kenya didn't allow dual citizenship until last year (He voted in Kenya back during the 07 elections) and we got our permanent resident cards in 2004. My dad started the naturalization process once he heard about the dual citizenship decision.

[F34R]

Hard work pays off, something alot of lucky Americans that were born here abuse everyday! Congrats =)

[mikeedler]

congrats!!! very nice.

I'm kinda the opposite, I am American, but doing my thing here in Germany now. It was really easy to get my permanent residency over here, but for non Americans it's a bit harder I've heard though. A German citizen I do not wanna be though. Voting for which thief is running the place isn't that important to me.

[dnick]

congrats man!!!!

[Tamataz]

Congrats! You are now entitled to get fat and sue everyone!!!!

I lol'd

Thank god i have dual citizenship... Well until i turn 18 then i have to pick a side!

[ak-]

I lol'd

Thank god i have dual citizenship... Well until i turn 18 then i have to pick a side!

? how so.

I'm a citizen in 3 countries including this one and over 18 lol.

[b*saint]

Try doing this in Canada. They'd send ya home.