Service Description

Citizenship bestows many important benefits, including the right to vote, to obtain a U.S. passport, to receive priority in your family-based immigration petitions, to confer citizenship on your children, and to qualify for health and social benefits. USCIS imposes specific requirements on permanent residents seeking to naturalize. Our firm stands by you through each step, including: Analyzing your case Addressing critical problems Collecting vital evidence Submitting your application Preparing you for the naturalization test Accompanying you to the USCIS interview A person can be a citizen for several reasons. Usually citizenship of the place of birth is automatic; in other cases an application may be required. If one or both of a person’s parents are citizens of U.S., then the person may have the right to be a citizen of that state as well. Formerly this might only have applied through the paternal line, but sex equality became common since the late twentieth century. Citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe. Where jus sanguinis holds, a person born outside a country, one or both of whose parents are citizens of the country, is also a citizen. States normally limit the right to citizenship by descent to a certain number of generations born outside the state. This form of citizenship is common in civil law countries. Most people are automatically citizens of the country in which they are born. This form of citizenship originated in England where those who were born within the realm were subjects of the monarch (a concept pre-dating citizenship), and is common in common law countries. In many cases both jus solis and jus sanguinis hold; citizenship either by place or parentage (or of course both).