How to acquire Canadian and American citizenship?

The conditions for obtaining Canadian citizenship are as follows:

1. Applicants must first be legal permanent residents of Canada, that is, they already have immigration status;

2. As the main applicant, to apply for naturalization, you must be at least 18 years old;

3. The applicant must have lived in Canada for three years in the past four years from the date of applying for naturalization (in these four years, one day after the applicant officially becomes a legal immigrant in Canada can only be counted as one day, and the day before officially becoming an immigrant can only be counted as half a day. In other words, an applicant who has lived in Canada for two years can be considered as an official immigrant for one year. Before becoming a formal immigrant, no matter how long the applicant lives in Canada, it can only be counted as one year at most. Four years ago, even if the applicant had lived in Canada, it didn't count. During this four-year period, the applicant can leave Canada, but the cumulative time of residence in Canada must reach three years. For example, applicants who came to Canada on 1988 1 month 1 day cannot apply for naturalization before 19901February 3 1 day. If the applicant has left Canada during this period, the time of leaving Canada must be deducted. In addition, the term of imprisonment or conditional parole cannot be counted as three years of residence in Canada);

4. Without any of the following circumstances; Is considered a threat to Canada's security; An expulsion order has been issued; Conditionally released from prison or supervised or paroled; He is still in prison; He has committed criminal offences in the past three years since he applied for naturalization.

5. Can use French or English, that is, can use one of the two official languages of Canada to communicate;

6. Have a certain understanding of Canada, including the rights and obligations of citizens, Canada's political system, history, geography and so on. (During the naturalization class, two booklets, Canadian Citizens and A Glance at Canada, will be distributed to applicants, which contain the above contents);

7. Complete the naturalization oath and signature procedures.

According to the relevant laws of the United States, there are three main ways to obtain American citizenship:

1. Obtain American citizenship according to the principle of birthplace. According to the birthright principle, a person can acquire American citizenship as long as he is born in the United States, regardless of his parents' nationality. However, children born to families of foreign embassies and consulates in the United States cannot obtain American citizenship according to this principle.

According to the Constitution of the United States, all people born on American territory are American citizens.

In recent years, more and more expectant mothers have come to the United States to give birth. Some people want to be American citizens; Some people think that the medical equipment in the United States is advanced ... The United States is one of the few countries that gives citizenship to people born in the United States, and the various "privileges" that can be enjoyed after having American citizenship are an important reason for the prevalence of "birth tourism". There are also many pregnant women from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province and Hongkong. The birth trip gave birth to the prosperity of the local month center, and also prompted some American lawmakers to challenge the birth citizenship.

According to the American Overseas Chinese News, * * * from Georgia and Congressman Nathan? Last year, Nathan Deal took the lead in proposing a bill to challenge the long-standing policy of automatically obtaining American citizenship for children born in the United States, which caused controversy. Dozens of members of the House of Representatives signed a bill entitled "Birth Right Citizenship in 2009" (H.R. 1868). Deere said that this policy encourages illegal immigrants and makes it more difficult to enforce immigration laws.

Therefore, foreigners born in the United States cannot acquire American citizenship in the future. ...

2. automatically acquire American citizenship according to the principle of descent. That is, as long as American citizens have lived in the United States for 65,438+00 years, and among them, they have lived in the United States for 5 years after the age of 65,438+04, their children born in foreign countries also become American citizens at birth. Therefore, regarding the original nationality of American citizens, it is a mixed principle, that is, the principle of birthplace and descent is adopted, and the principle of birthplace is the main one.

3. Obtaining American citizenship after applying for American citizenship for naturalization and other reasons is approved. Both of them are commonly referred to as native Americans, and both of them automatically acquire American citizenship because of their birth, that is, their original citizenship. But the United States is an immigrant country, with a large number of naturalized people, that is, foreign-born "Americans." According to the relevant laws of the US Congress, the basic conditions for naturalization in the United States are: at least 65,438+08 years old, must be a non-enemy national and legally enter the United States, obtain permanent residency and live in the United States for more than 5 years, and live in a state for at least 6 months. Those who meet the above requirements and wish to become American citizens should apply to the Citizenship and Immigration Service, which will examine them to prove that they have good moral character, reliable credit, basic English reading, listening, speaking and writing, and basic knowledge of American history, government structure and constitution, mainly about important events, people, government organizations and rights in American history. It does not belong to any totalitarianism, extremism, terrorism or underworld organization. Naturalized citizens must swear allegiance to the United States, fulfill their obligations as American citizens, and give up their original nationality and loyalty to their original country (the swearing-in procedure is generally held irregularly, and people from different countries, nationalities and religious beliefs in the world will swear at the same time). After the swearing-in procedure, they can formally obtain a written document approved by the US government on the same day, which is also commonly known as "citizen paper".