How to immigrate to the United States to join the household registration?

# American Immigration # Introduction Its realization is that many people want to immigrate to the United States. Some people may find it easy, while others may find it difficult. But in fact, all foreign immigrants with legal residency can apply for American citizenship. How do they join the household registration when they immigrate to the United States? The following is published by KaoNet, welcome to read!

1. How to immigrate to the United States to join the household registration?

First, you must have lived in the United States for five consecutive years after obtaining permanent residency.

This is the minimum residence period for naturalization. Within five years, you can't leave the United States for more than six months in a row. If it is more than half a year, you must provide proof that you have no intention of giving up your right of abode in the United States.

Therefore, it is necessary to extend the naturalization application time accordingly and recalculate the residence time in the United States. Before applying for naturalization to the US Immigration Service, you must live in the United States for at least three years, at least half a legal period.

2. A foreign citizen who marries an American citizen must remain married for two years before both husband and wife can apply for naturalization to the Immigration Bureau.

The new immigration law stipulates that foreign citizens who are married to American citizens or permanent residents should apply for naturalization as soon as possible as long as they meet the conditions for applying for American citizenship, so as to become American citizens as soon as possible and enjoy all the rights as American citizens. But the prerequisite must be a marriage relationship that lasts for more than two years.

3. When applying for naturalization

You must live in the United States for the last six months of five consecutive years and live in a local state or city for at least six months.

4. Applicants for naturalization must be at least 18 years old.

Foreigners under the age of 16 who have permanent residency in the United States, whose parents have acquired American citizenship, can automatically acquire American citizenship with their parents. However, children aged between 16 and 18 must apply for naturalization independently.

If the child is under the age of 18, and one parent is an American citizen and the other parent is a foreigner, before the child reaches the age of 18, the parent with American citizenship can apply for naturalization on his behalf.

Five, must have a preliminary English reading, listening, speaking and writing skills.

Applicants for naturalization should have a certain degree of English knowledge and a certain degree of English ability. When examining the eligibility for naturalization, immigration officials will conduct an oral test, and the naturalization applicant will answer the knowledge about American history and the American government in English.

Test the actual English expression ability of naturalization applicants through oral examination. This kind of test questions is printed and sold by the American government. If the applicant fails to pass the first oral exam, the applicant is allowed to take two make-up exams within one year.

If the applicant is over 50 years old and has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, he can be exempted from taking the English test and can use his own language instead. The new immigration law also exempts applicants over the age of 55 who have obtained permanent residency in the United States for more than 15 years and replaces them with their mother tongue.

Six, you must stay in the United States for five years to perform well.

Seven, must have a certain understanding of American history and constitution, immigration law.

It is mainly about the understanding of important events, figures, government agencies and rights in American history, as well as the understanding of the principles and important amendments of the American Constitution.

8. Applicants for citizenship must give up their original nationality.

If you want to keep your original nationality, you can't become an American citizen.

2. Living expenses after emigrating to the United States

First, the application fee is relatively simple. If we don't talk about the very possible price increase for the time being, the current investment is generally $500 thousand. If we add other management fees and attorney fees, we can budget this part of the expenses to 600,000 dollars. However, if the price is adjusted at 20 17, it is very likely that the investment amount will rise to $800 to100000. Plus other extra fees, the whole application fee may double.

Second, the cost of education.

Most people emigrate for their children, so the cost of education is also part of the plan. If children attend public schools, education before university is completely free. What you need to pay is the cost of pens, ink, paper and inkstone, school uniforms (in some schools) and some students' activities. But these expenses are only one or two thousand yuan per person per year at most. However, if it is a private school, the tuition fee ranges from thousands to tens of thousands, generally between 20,000 and 40,000 per year. University expenses are very different.

According to the latest survey data, the average tuition fee of private universities is 3 1 000 per year, while that of public universities is more than 9,000 in the state and 22,000 out of the state. If accommodation, books, transportation and other expenses are added, the average annual expenses of private schools can reach 46,000, that of public states is about 23,000, and that of out-of-state is about 35,000.

Three. living expenses

After waiting for several years for the I-526 to land, there was no big expenditure. After landing, the first cost involved is the purchase or lease of the house. Due to different residence and personal requirements, this fee varies greatly. For example, if it is near Los Angeles, California, a four-bedroom house in an ordinary middle-class community will be between 500,000 and 654.38+00,000, but the same type of house may be half the price in Houston. Let's take 6.5438+0 million as an example. If you plan to buy a mortgage, the average mortgage term in the United States is 30 years (or less), and the current mortgage interest rate is between 4% and 5%. If the term is 30 years, the interest rate is 4.5% and the down payment is 65,438+00%, then your annual mortgage repayment is about 55,000 dollars. But you also need to pay property tax, insurance and community management fees. There is no small difference in property tax rates among States in the United States. These extra taxes and fees will be around 20 thousand every year. So you will spend 6,543,800 yuan first, and then spend about 75,000 yuan every year. If you buy a house of 500,000 yuan, we can estimate the cost as half of the above: 37,500 yuan.

Four. living expenses

Let's look at the cost of living again. For a family of four, if it is an ordinary middle-class lifestyle, 5,000 yuan a month can be taken care of, including basic food, clothing, housing and transportation, or even lower. If you plan to buy two cars, the budget of 50,000 to 654.38+million can give you a pretty good choice.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) medical expenses

In addition, medical insurance is not a big expenditure. For a family of four, the monthly premium will be around $65,438+$0,000. Therefore, the annual medical budget1.5,000 to 20,000 should be enough. Even if there are serious illness expenses, as long as there is insurance, personal expenses will not be much higher than 20,000 (including premiums and medical expenses) because in the United States, there is a concept of "upper limit of personal expenses". If you are unfortunately seriously ill, the insurance company will pay all the expenses that exceed this upper limit.