eskie

September 4, 2011

Hey i'm new to this site. And i want to ask those who have already been naturalized: What were the 10 questions they asked you during the civic test ? thanks..

They asked me only 6, as I got all the answers correct - you have to get 6 out of 10 correct. The questions are selected randomly from the 100 questions in this study pack:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.749cabd81f5ffc8fba713d10526e0aa0/?vgnextoid=c242df6bdd42a210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=c242df6bdd42a210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD

Knowing the questions that others were asked does not help in predicting which ones you will be asked!

September 4, 2011

Dear VJ members,

First of all, sorry if I am writing this topic in a wrong forum.

I am a LPR, waiting for my naturalization interview on October 2011. Yesterday I have received a letter/summons from Jury Selection Commission to report for Jury duty at September 27, 2011. Hence, I was searching on the net to know how does it work and why should it apply on me. As far as I understood through my search that Jury Commission can call any US Citizens to serve this duty & it should be taken seriously otherwise there will be severe penalty/fine. But I wonder why was it sent to me as I am still a LPR, not a US Citizen yet. So my question is

1. Did Jury Commission ask me to serve this duty by mistake? YES

2. Should I serve Jury duty even before I bacame a US Citizen? NO DEFINITELY NOT

3. How should I respond to Jury Commission? GO ONLINE AND REQUEST EXEMPTION AS A NON_CITIZEN - GIVE YOUR ARC NUMBER. THE SUMMONS SHOULD HAVE DETAILS ON HOW TO DO THIS

Have you been through this situation? Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

The same thing happened to me - I got a jury Duty summons in error while I was still a Green Card Holder and waiting for my interview. I immediately went online to request that I be excused and gave my Green Card number. You should do the same. It is illegal to serve on a Jury if you are not a citizen, and if you do, you will invalidate your citizenship application. You have received the summons in error - they are sent out based on town census/property registration records, which may not have citizenship status recorded accurately.

(As it happens, I became a citizen before the date of Jury Duty ... but I could not have known that when I (correctly) applied to be excused.)

August 20, 2011

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August 16, 2011

Oh ok i see. Must be nice going through immigration with ease upon coming back to the states this time. So if your original country allows dual-citizenship, you can go there with that country's passport and come to the U.S with your U.S passport? Seems that worked for you.

Yes - if the original country allows dual citizenship, and you haven't repudiated your original citizenship, you are actually required to present yourself as a citizen of that country to the officials of the country - including passport-control officers. Now as I'm an Irish citizen, but was entering the UK, it was probably a bit fuzzy, but as there is a common EU passport for all EU countries, it was my choice as to whether I presented myself as an EU citizen or US citizen. It was easier, and probably more correct, to present the EU passport to the UK authorities, as with a US passport they would have stamped it with a 3-month tourist/business entry permit, whereas as an EU citizen I was entitled to stay as long as I liked! If I flew directly to Ireland I would definitely have had to present my EU/Irish passport to the Irish authorities.

The thing to remember is to enter and leave the US with your US passport ONLY - so I presented my US passport to the airline as I checked in for the flight to the UK. THE US authorities do now track everyone entering and leaving, gathering data from the airlines.

[i once worked with a guy who had 3 passports - Austrian (where he was born), US (naturalized) and UK (via his parents)]

Does your birth-country, Ghana, recognize dual citizenship?

August 15, 2011