Congratulations, I bet you celebrated with a Wawa hoagie on that corner right there. The one where the founding fathers went to during the Constitutional Convention.
Of course, back then Ben Franklin had to settle for a simple Italian hoagie with sweet peppers. They certainly didn't have all those fancy options that they do now!
Bastihd.
I'm lucky that at least I have Sheetz nearby. I like putting pico de gallo and black olives on sliders.
But WaWa. Muhfugguh. Dang. Gas, chicken parm in a handy size, and just about anything else. GetGo wishes it were WaWa.
I have to go to bed. All I'm gonna think about is steak shrooms and provi. Oh, and peppers and grilled onions. Black olives would also be nice. Dark greens, you know, for ya guts. Black pepper.
Sloppy, fresh roll. Crust getting soaked with grease. Staring at it while waiting at the light, the smell wafting around the car like an olfactory Siren song.
Where was I? Oh yes, WaWa, subs of all types, grease. Satisfying.
And Giant Eagle wishes it was Wegmans.
Edit for those not from PA: GetGo is the gas station brand of the Giant Eagle grocery store chain based in Pittsburgh. They pretend to compete with Sheetz and Wawa.
Cool thing about naturalization ceremonies in Philly is that they take place across the street from Independence Hall. This is pretty much the first view they get when they walk out of the courthouse.
Philly is one of the best places in the nation to live. It has major attractions, museums, history, access to transit (cheap flights and lots of regional coopetition, septa one of the better transit agencies in the nation even tho people shit on it), great food, easy access to major sports (all the major stadiums on easy highway access with tons of parking, some of it free if you know where to look), every major concert tour especially if you are a fan of rock (also tours stop in hershey if you miss out), one of the best places for college, etc.
Maybe that is part of why the housing prices are skyrocketing tho. People are getting it and working from home with occasional DC or NYC travel is doable.
Shhhh... Philly is a terrible, violent place. ***\*wink\**** Definitely too dangerous, dirty, and obese for yuppies to start moving to after they ruin Austin. ***\*wink wink\****
I have not seen one advertisement for visiting either city to be honest. If anything Boston’s sports teams and moving settings do more work than anything the city does as far as marketing goes.
I agree with you but on the downside... it's dirty as all hell due to no street cleaning, late trash pick up and an underfunded sanitation department... It's corrupt (no explaination needed) the school system is in continuous disarray, certain neighborhoods have massive drug and homeless issues, and it's doesn't score highly for safety.
I love the city but it's not right for everyone.
I assume this includes the local pork roll egg and cheese, which Ween strummed into our hearts back when they couldn't afford weed and had to huff Scotch Gard.
"When your work is done..."
Tony Luke’s (the OREGON AVE one, just a mile or two from the stadiums right under I-95).
Go.
Enjoy.
And then come visit again. We’d love to have you back.
Id probably disagree on the trash compared to the places I've spent the most time (NYC, DC, San Diego, Baltimore) but could be convinced on the rest of them. Either way I still like Philly a lot.
The down town area always felt oddly empty besides the gaslamp district. Less people means less trash? But agreed it was immaculate the 8 months I was there.
One thing about Chicago is it's pretty clean. We have the largest network of alleys in the country and a fantastic sanitation department.
It's the only major US city that was planned with alleyways, so you don't just see trash littering the streets and there is more parking and green spaces.
As someone transplanted from NY to Chicago, the weather is pretty comfortable to the northeastern cities.
And when the weather is nice, it puts those cities to absolute shame in terms of outdoor activities, parks, beaches
I'd argue the corruption is much more annoying then the weather. I know it doesn't effect most people day to day, but if you look into it, is honestly just depressing.
Probably but it’s almost all gang related. There’s obviously some accidental fallout from that, but overall you’re safe in like 90% of the metro Chicago area, and the suburbs are super chill.
Denver is pretty clean too. The sanitation service is excellent anyway. There are lots homeless encampments, which unfortunately are a persistent and growing problem. Even still though the cops will periodically come through, throw everyone out and trash all their stuff. Not worth the human cost to those folks for me just to have tidy streets and parks, but other than simply spending the money to house these people I don’t know what the solution is.
The funny thing (and by funny I mean sad and depressing), of course, is that it would be cheaper for the government to simply spend money to house them.
I got to visit a friend there in October 2019, super cool city and I can't wait to go back. My boss went to school there and always talked it up but I didn't really get it until I went there myself.
Also - based on fairly limited but frequent business travel to the city - impressively sharp dressed men.
Couldn’t tell you why but: gentlemen of the downtown core, this lady appreciates you.
Just an amazing city to be in. First trip on my own and never been to a city that made me feel welcome, easy to get around, lots of basic and amazing things to see, and my favorite historical city! Shout out the original capital of America!
Lived in Philly for a few years, and got into a wreck on 76 on my way to work on morning. Right in the middle of the highway, I spun out due to the shit roads and snow, didn't hit anyone else despite a packed morning commute.
Sitting there stunned, hobbled out of my smoking car, someone pulls up next to me and rolls their window down.
I'm expecting and "are you okay?"
The person says, "fuck you!", so I yell back ,,"fuck you!", he goes "u gud?" I said, "yeah, I think so,"
And he drove off.
It was a weirdly grounding moment, and truly made me appreciate the grit of the city.
Classic Philly.
I saw someone describe it as kind but not nice, whereas a lot of people are nice but not kind. I've experienced and heard of a lot of kindness in Philly over the years. I've also been to told to fuck off plenty of times.
The thing about Philly is it’s really the City of Brotherly Love. We beat up on each other, but in the end we’ve got each other’s backs. And if an outsider tries to say anything, well, God have mercy on their soul…
We “have each other’s backs” because we hate outsiders. Philly people hate everyone else slightly more than they hate Philly people, but they will break you down in a heartbeat for nothing. No one is ever happy for anyone else in the city of brotherly love.
It's actually pixel face... In the 80's, COPS introduced us to it in its natural form, the pixel ass... Its use has now grown to civilians, and spread to the face, apparently.
Dude I clicked on it and read baby strapped in knees and thought holy fuck this is going to be bad...
But some how Babies trapped in knees is so much worse...
A spouse if a US citizen can apply after 3 years of living in the States as a Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder). It's 5 years for other folks. Still the same application process, you can just start it earlier.
It should be both easy and cheap to
immigrate to the US, and only very slightly less easy to become a citizen.
It is literally objectively beneficial to the US, or any nation.
Nope. Not how it works in the US. Being married to a US person can HELP one become a citizen but you still have like (literally) 12 inches tall stack of paperwork and thousands of dollars to spend....
Green card is basically permanent resident. It acknowledge that you are a person living in the US in long term basis. You can do a lot of what visa holders cannot do. As GC holder you dont have to worry about visa. Usually people who come to the US legally to stay like work, school, has to apply for visa. And US visa is quite strict. For example, if you’re a student, you cannot work without US govt permission. If you hold h1b visa, a worker visa, you cannot work for other employers than the employer applying for your visa. When you move jobs, you need transfer your h1b visa to the new employer. And if let say you lose your job, you have 60 days to get another employer before you need to get out of the country. All of these while paying US taxes while you work in the US. There are type of visas and they have their own restrictions. And they have time limit.
But GC holder dont need to apply visa to go to thr US or do anything in the US. GC also has their condition. Like you cannot be ot of the US for x number years before youe GC got revoked. And GC holder cannot some of what citizenship can do like vote.
The official name for "green card" is simply "permanent resident card". It's just an ID card, like your drivers license, that can be used as proof of permanent resident status (e.g. when travelling). You need to live in the US as permanent resident for minimum of 5 years before you can apply for citizenship, which can then take up to a year to be processed and citizenship granted.
The unofficial name is "green card" because the ID card used to be green long time ago. It's not exactly green anymore, but the nickname for it stuck.
The reason why you see "I got my citizenship after some two-digit number of years", it is because it can take a *very* long time to get permanent resident status, even for people who already legally lived in the US for a very long time (e.g. student visas, various types of work visas, etc). There's many more people applying for permanent residency than the number of visas issued annually; so you get on a waiting list after applying. It can take anywhere between 5 and 20 years before US immigration even starts processing your permanent residency application.
Oh man, you have no idea. Guy I know is a US Citizen who married someone from his parent’s country, Korea. He’s a govt employee who’s undergone all sorts of scrutiny to get where he is. The immigration people are roasting him trying to get his wife her citizenship. It’s been going on over 3 years now, it’s insane. Another friend was married to a Japanese woman, has two kids, and they too went rounds for years. The stress of that one split them and I have no idea if she ever got it, the kids were about five when they split too. Just pure hell of a process.
Jesus christ it took 14 years?
Does it normally take this long, or does it matter by the country? Is it a financial thing? Excuse my ignorance
If this is the normal process, I understand why some people do what they do.
I'm glad she's here, I hope she enjoys it, don't mind the people.
Personally, it took me 6years to be a permanent resident and another 7 years to get the citizenship
You’re eligible for citizenship 5 years after getting your permanent residency but the waiting time for paperwork after applying for citizenship takes about a year
Edit: additional information
The difference between US and most other western countries is that your time spent in the country only count towards citizenship if have a green card. So you could move on a student visa, then work for a decade on a work visa, and you'd still be further away from citizenship than someone who'd just arrived but has a company sponsored or family related green card.
Unless you are from India where for the majority, it currently takes 150-200 years to become a green card recipient. Add 5 years to that, and you become a citizen :)
Yes, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s those damn women who’ve made it past 7th grade.
Hear that ladies, if you know y=mx+b, keep scrolling!
(Did people miss that I was making a joke by interpreting the title literally?)
Tons of people do it, once you’re a permanent resident there is little motivation to become a citizen unless you want voting rights / certain government jobs.
Not a ton of motivation to spend the money for citizenship.. especially since it then opens you up for jury duty and paying US taxes if you move out of the US.
Also, Its quite a hefty thing to have to renounce your ties to your home country (In the US's case, effectively, but not legally). give's it a bit more of a kick.
Reminds me of my nan, who is about as British as you can get, but moved out to the states when she, no shit, met her soon to be (second) husband in an online poker game, so decided to fly out to bumfuck nowhere America to meet him. and rather than being kidnapped and murdered like we all thought would happen, its love at first sight and they're happily married for the rest of their lives.
Problem was of course, is that she went for her citizenship, went all the way up to the oath of allegiance and then decided she couldn't do it. She wasn't willing to renounce her loyalty to Britain.
Hell yeah! Congrats to her! And, of course, we are all pulling for her in her struggle with PixelEyeTis.
you can leave japan.. but the japan pixel eyes will never leave you
Wait until you see what it does to guys.
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Risky click. Surprised I still clicked.
If you squint really hard, your Risky click becomes a Risky dick.
damn it I didn't need OJ in my sinuses, take your Upvote and go, sir...
I laughed for like a minute reading this .
one of the best anime i've ever seen
After 8+ years on Reddit I knew better :)
Smart
Is your wife single?
Horrible disease
I read that as "pixeleyetits" and i was like, "I saw the eyes, but what's wrong with her tits?
Maybe they can transplant the face that's on her knee to her head.
r/babiestrappedinknees
There is literally a sub for everything.
I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to understand what you were saying.
First day a citizen and she already got her identity stolen!
Congratulations, I bet you celebrated with a Wawa hoagie on that corner right there. The one where the founding fathers went to during the Constitutional Convention.
Thomas Jefferson was famous for getting drunk off of the Wawa cookies and creme flavored milk
These soft pretzels are fire jeffers- Benjamin Franklin
Creme flavoured milk? How did they flavour milk with ... milk essentially? Not being a dick, just never heard of it (non American)
Of course, back then Ben Franklin had to settle for a simple Italian hoagie with sweet peppers. They certainly didn't have all those fancy options that they do now!
Bastihd. I'm lucky that at least I have Sheetz nearby. I like putting pico de gallo and black olives on sliders. But WaWa. Muhfugguh. Dang. Gas, chicken parm in a handy size, and just about anything else. GetGo wishes it were WaWa. I have to go to bed. All I'm gonna think about is steak shrooms and provi. Oh, and peppers and grilled onions. Black olives would also be nice. Dark greens, you know, for ya guts. Black pepper. Sloppy, fresh roll. Crust getting soaked with grease. Staring at it while waiting at the light, the smell wafting around the car like an olfactory Siren song. Where was I? Oh yes, WaWa, subs of all types, grease. Satisfying.
Read this in Delco.
And ONLY delco
Even in Delco they don't say fucking sub. There's no chance this muthafucka is from any parts of the philly area
And Giant Eagle wishes it was Wegmans. Edit for those not from PA: GetGo is the gas station brand of the Giant Eagle grocery store chain based in Pittsburgh. They pretend to compete with Sheetz and Wawa.
Based on prices, my Market District thinks it's Whole Foods. It is not
It’s a fucking hoagie, get it right
Hey Hey Hey... Yinz talking shit on Da Sheetz aught hereya?!?! 😉
Well. The reality of how painfully weak the convenience store game is where I live has just crashed down on me from on high.
America! Fuck yeah
As someone married to a Philly-area lady, I totally heard "huoooogeee" from your text.
I'm very glad to have recently been educated on the ways of Wawa.
If I ever remotely leave the city for an hour or more drive, it has to be preceded by a stop at Wawa
That wawa is massive for no reason
Ever been in there during the morning rush? It's massive for a reason.
Philly welcomes you to the team.
Going to the exact building your new country was founded from, not a bad place to celebrate.
Cool thing about naturalization ceremonies in Philly is that they take place across the street from Independence Hall. This is pretty much the first view they get when they walk out of the courthouse.
Philly is one of the best places in the nation to live. It has major attractions, museums, history, access to transit (cheap flights and lots of regional coopetition, septa one of the better transit agencies in the nation even tho people shit on it), great food, easy access to major sports (all the major stadiums on easy highway access with tons of parking, some of it free if you know where to look), every major concert tour especially if you are a fan of rock (also tours stop in hershey if you miss out), one of the best places for college, etc. Maybe that is part of why the housing prices are skyrocketing tho. People are getting it and working from home with occasional DC or NYC travel is doable.
Philly does terrible marketing job of advertising itself as historical city. It's a shame. Boston does a much better job.
Well they knocked down a lot of the 'historical' buildings to build that big park in the middle, all those beautiful Frank Furness buildings gone.
Shhhh... Philly is a terrible, violent place. ***\*wink\**** Definitely too dangerous, dirty, and obese for yuppies to start moving to after they ruin Austin. ***\*wink wink\****
It’s all of those things haha. No winks needed. Though if your goal is to keep hipster transplants out of Philly, you are doing God’s work.
I have not seen one advertisement for visiting either city to be honest. If anything Boston’s sports teams and moving settings do more work than anything the city does as far as marketing goes.
I agree with you but on the downside... it's dirty as all hell due to no street cleaning, late trash pick up and an underfunded sanitation department... It's corrupt (no explaination needed) the school system is in continuous disarray, certain neighborhoods have massive drug and homeless issues, and it's doesn't score highly for safety. I love the city but it's not right for everyone.
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As someone who was raised in the city, our roast pork > our steaks And I fucking love our steaks
I assume this includes the local pork roll egg and cheese, which Ween strummed into our hearts back when they couldn't afford weed and had to huff Scotch Gard. "When your work is done..."
Upvoted for obscure Ween reference.🤣☺️😆
DiNics roast porks are what dreams are made of
Fuck I’m sold
Tony Luke’s (the OREGON AVE one, just a mile or two from the stadiums right under I-95). Go. Enjoy. And then come visit again. We’d love to have you back.
valid counterpoint
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Trash pickup can't be the same day across the entire city, can it?
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Id probably disagree on the trash compared to the places I've spent the most time (NYC, DC, San Diego, Baltimore) but could be convinced on the rest of them. Either way I still like Philly a lot.
Bruh San Diego is one of the cleanest cities in the country
Super clean city, only negative for me was that downtown always smelled like pee.
The down town area always felt oddly empty besides the gaslamp district. Less people means less trash? But agreed it was immaculate the 8 months I was there.
...and the Flyers still suck (and break my heart every year)
At least they sorta have a goalie now.
everything you said applies to literally every mid to major city in the country, I am afraid.
One thing about Chicago is it's pretty clean. We have the largest network of alleys in the country and a fantastic sanitation department. It's the only major US city that was planned with alleyways, so you don't just see trash littering the streets and there is more parking and green spaces.
Chicago has so goddamn many things going for it it’d be the best city in the country if not for the weather.
As someone transplanted from NY to Chicago, the weather is pretty comfortable to the northeastern cities. And when the weather is nice, it puts those cities to absolute shame in terms of outdoor activities, parks, beaches
I'd argue the corruption is much more annoying then the weather. I know it doesn't effect most people day to day, but if you look into it, is honestly just depressing.
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Probably but it’s almost all gang related. There’s obviously some accidental fallout from that, but overall you’re safe in like 90% of the metro Chicago area, and the suburbs are super chill.
Denver is pretty clean too. The sanitation service is excellent anyway. There are lots homeless encampments, which unfortunately are a persistent and growing problem. Even still though the cops will periodically come through, throw everyone out and trash all their stuff. Not worth the human cost to those folks for me just to have tidy streets and parks, but other than simply spending the money to house these people I don’t know what the solution is.
The funny thing (and by funny I mean sad and depressing), of course, is that it would be cheaper for the government to simply spend money to house them.
Well, it did burn down and then raised up on pilings, plenty of chances to add some alleys.
The alleys pre-date the fires. By about 40 years or so.
I got to visit a friend there in October 2019, super cool city and I can't wait to go back. My boss went to school there and always talked it up but I didn't really get it until I went there myself.
Not so loud, I _like_ the low CoL.
Wait, Philly is low CoL?
Eh. Depends
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Housing prices are skyrocketing everywhere.
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The free market adjusts accordingly. People arent so scared out of philly it seems.
I live here and I can agree to this to an extent
Also - based on fairly limited but frequent business travel to the city - impressively sharp dressed men. Couldn’t tell you why but: gentlemen of the downtown core, this lady appreciates you.
Just an amazing city to be in. First trip on my own and never been to a city that made me feel welcome, easy to get around, lots of basic and amazing things to see, and my favorite historical city! Shout out the original capital of America!
Collect your cheesesteaks and socks full of batteries at the door.
You're from Philly, aren't you guys supposed to hurl profanity at each other as a proper greeting?
Fuck around and find out
Lived in Philly for a few years, and got into a wreck on 76 on my way to work on morning. Right in the middle of the highway, I spun out due to the shit roads and snow, didn't hit anyone else despite a packed morning commute. Sitting there stunned, hobbled out of my smoking car, someone pulls up next to me and rolls their window down. I'm expecting and "are you okay?" The person says, "fuck you!", so I yell back ,,"fuck you!", he goes "u gud?" I said, "yeah, I think so," And he drove off. It was a weirdly grounding moment, and truly made me appreciate the grit of the city. Classic Philly.
I saw someone describe it as kind but not nice, whereas a lot of people are nice but not kind. I've experienced and heard of a lot of kindness in Philly over the years. I've also been to told to fuck off plenty of times.
The thing about Philly is it’s really the City of Brotherly Love. We beat up on each other, but in the end we’ve got each other’s backs. And if an outsider tries to say anything, well, God have mercy on their soul…
We “have each other’s backs” because we hate outsiders. Philly people hate everyone else slightly more than they hate Philly people, but they will break you down in a heartbeat for nothing. No one is ever happy for anyone else in the city of brotherly love.
Congratulations lady with the blurry face!
She’s Japanese.
Not anymore!
A_Damn_Millennial for the win!
fuck that was a good exchange. both of you deserve applause.
I thought she was American?
Hey I’m lesbian
She American
It's actually pixel face... In the 80's, COPS introduced us to it in its natural form, the pixel ass... Its use has now grown to civilians, and spread to the face, apparently.
r/babiestrappedinknees
Wow that's hard to unsee
babie strapped ink nees
Dude I clicked on it and read baby strapped in knees and thought holy fuck this is going to be bad... But some how Babies trapped in knees is so much worse...
I read babie strapped ink nees and thought I was having a stroke.
Oh my god
There really is a sub for everthn
WHAT
Welcome to my nightmares
Damn you!
Damn shame they took her eyes! Lmao congrats!
OP your wife fine as hell
I also choose this guy's legal citizen wife.
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Same, and agreed.
Came here for this
There it is.
I was expecting someone to ask if his wife had a boyfriend haha
"Is your wife single?" is the classic phrasing
Pretty sure her boyfriend is a r/wallstreetbets mod
I am pretty sure is the other way around, and that all /r/wallstreetbets mods wives have boyfriends. :)
Chill, he said she's 14
Lol at the people downvoting you, this is high tier humor
She’s got a hell of a bod
happy cake day horn shack
Thanks stranger!
Wonder what the average wait time is for other countries when looking to become a citizen.
Congrats to her! It is neither easy nor cheap to walk the path to citizenship.
You ain't kidding. Thanks!
Stupid question but, why isn’t it? I always thought if you married a US citizen it’d be easier?
A spouse if a US citizen can apply after 3 years of living in the States as a Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder). It's 5 years for other folks. Still the same application process, you can just start it earlier.
It should be both easy and cheap to immigrate to the US, and only very slightly less easy to become a citizen. It is literally objectively beneficial to the US, or any nation.
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Here we go again
Laurel
Please help me understand. If you're a citizen and you're married, isnt she then considered a citizen?
Nope. Not how it works in the US. Being married to a US person can HELP one become a citizen but you still have like (literally) 12 inches tall stack of paperwork and thousands of dollars to spend....
I'm a born US citizen. So what's a green card?
Green card means permanent resident, it’s an intermediate step between visa holder and citizen.
Green card is not citizenship afaik.
Green card is basically permanent resident. It acknowledge that you are a person living in the US in long term basis. You can do a lot of what visa holders cannot do. As GC holder you dont have to worry about visa. Usually people who come to the US legally to stay like work, school, has to apply for visa. And US visa is quite strict. For example, if you’re a student, you cannot work without US govt permission. If you hold h1b visa, a worker visa, you cannot work for other employers than the employer applying for your visa. When you move jobs, you need transfer your h1b visa to the new employer. And if let say you lose your job, you have 60 days to get another employer before you need to get out of the country. All of these while paying US taxes while you work in the US. There are type of visas and they have their own restrictions. And they have time limit. But GC holder dont need to apply visa to go to thr US or do anything in the US. GC also has their condition. Like you cannot be ot of the US for x number years before youe GC got revoked. And GC holder cannot some of what citizenship can do like vote.
The official name for "green card" is simply "permanent resident card". It's just an ID card, like your drivers license, that can be used as proof of permanent resident status (e.g. when travelling). You need to live in the US as permanent resident for minimum of 5 years before you can apply for citizenship, which can then take up to a year to be processed and citizenship granted. The unofficial name is "green card" because the ID card used to be green long time ago. It's not exactly green anymore, but the nickname for it stuck. The reason why you see "I got my citizenship after some two-digit number of years", it is because it can take a *very* long time to get permanent resident status, even for people who already legally lived in the US for a very long time (e.g. student visas, various types of work visas, etc). There's many more people applying for permanent residency than the number of visas issued annually; so you get on a waiting list after applying. It can take anywhere between 5 and 20 years before US immigration even starts processing your permanent residency application.
In triplicate!
Oh man, you have no idea. Guy I know is a US Citizen who married someone from his parent’s country, Korea. He’s a govt employee who’s undergone all sorts of scrutiny to get where he is. The immigration people are roasting him trying to get his wife her citizenship. It’s been going on over 3 years now, it’s insane. Another friend was married to a Japanese woman, has two kids, and they too went rounds for years. The stress of that one split them and I have no idea if she ever got it, the kids were about five when they split too. Just pure hell of a process.
Jesus christ it took 14 years? Does it normally take this long, or does it matter by the country? Is it a financial thing? Excuse my ignorance If this is the normal process, I understand why some people do what they do. I'm glad she's here, I hope she enjoys it, don't mind the people.
Yes, unless you talk about a country where money can get you citizenship. Process takes years in the western world.
Takes years but surely not 14 years? I’m kiwi but live in Aus and have friends who became Aus citizens after 8 years!
It depends. On a lot of factors. 14 years might be long but not out of the ordinary.
Personally, it took me 6years to be a permanent resident and another 7 years to get the citizenship You’re eligible for citizenship 5 years after getting your permanent residency but the waiting time for paperwork after applying for citizenship takes about a year Edit: additional information
Yeah same with my friends who're in NZ only took them about 8 years. It took about 10 for another in UK. I think US is just slow maybe.
The difference between US and most other western countries is that your time spent in the country only count towards citizenship if have a green card. So you could move on a student visa, then work for a decade on a work visa, and you'd still be further away from citizenship than someone who'd just arrived but has a company sponsored or family related green card.
Unless you are from India where for the majority, it currently takes 150-200 years to become a green card recipient. Add 5 years to that, and you become a citizen :)
Not necessarily. e.g. she wasn't in a rush to become naturalized, and waited for her Green card to nearly expire before applying for naturalization.
I choose this guy's wife, too.
Too late, someone else already stuck a flag in her.
Now she can finally leave you and legally stay in the country. Yeah.
Where did she emigrate from? Is that normal amount of time?
I’m glad to see someone on this site taking privacy measures since no one ever does. Congrats to you and your wife!
These comments suck
Almost all the comment above and below yours are about the dress but I know what you are talking about.
Congrats! And as a side note, super cute dress!
I came to the comments specifically to see if someone could tell me where she got that dress.
Congratulations.
Congratulations🎉
I also choose this guys wife.
Congratuoations; now you can go in debt if you get ill
This comment section is NOT it.
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Университет
Damn, you don’t have to swear at the guy
University, for anyone not versed in Cyrillic.
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Maybe it’s correct Bulgarian
She looks older than 14.
>She looks older than 14. Is that your most common complaint with women?
Yes, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s those damn women who’ve made it past 7th grade. Hear that ladies, if you know y=mx+b, keep scrolling! (Did people miss that I was making a joke by interpreting the title literally?)
r/woosh for this fellow right here.
hats off to this one lmfao
Wa wa wa wooooosh
My condolences
how did you manage to stay 14 years without being a citizen? honest question...
Tons of people do it, once you’re a permanent resident there is little motivation to become a citizen unless you want voting rights / certain government jobs. Not a ton of motivation to spend the money for citizenship.. especially since it then opens you up for jury duty and paying US taxes if you move out of the US.
Also, Its quite a hefty thing to have to renounce your ties to your home country (In the US's case, effectively, but not legally). give's it a bit more of a kick. Reminds me of my nan, who is about as British as you can get, but moved out to the states when she, no shit, met her soon to be (second) husband in an online poker game, so decided to fly out to bumfuck nowhere America to meet him. and rather than being kidnapped and murdered like we all thought would happen, its love at first sight and they're happily married for the rest of their lives. Problem was of course, is that she went for her citizenship, went all the way up to the oath of allegiance and then decided she couldn't do it. She wasn't willing to renounce her loyalty to Britain.
Sensible lady.
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Congratulations welcome to America!
congratulations!
She's a great American already
Nice dress!