immigration to the United States
naturalization
Immigration (migration) to the United States does not automatically acquire citizenship (nationality). Immigrants who enter the country through an immigration visa will receive permanent residency immediately upon arrival, which refers to the right to live permanently. In order for a permanent resident to acquire (naturalize) citizenship, the following conditions must be satisfied.
As an 18-year-old or older,
Living in the U.S. for a certain period of time - five years as a permanent resident, especially more than half of the five years immediately before applying for naturalization, and at least three months at the time of naturalization.
You need to have basic English skills,
You must pass the citizenship test. The citizenship test asks the basic common sense that the American people need to know in English.
In addition to the basics, citizenship applicants are required to have a healthy moral character, such as felons who can be sentenced to more than a year in prison, such as murder, robbery, rape, theft, fraud, and tax evasion, and others who have served as the Nazi government or Communist Party, may be denied applications for naturalization. If the above requirements are met, applicants for naturalization will acquire U.S. citizenship under the age of 18 automatically become U.S. citizens when their parents receive citizenship. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), about 757,000 adults (over the age of 18) were naturalized to the U.S. and became U.S. citizens in 2012 alone. Although it varies slightly from year to year, approximately 500,000 to 1 million foreigners are naturalized to the U.S. each year.
Since then, thousands to as many as 30,000 Koreans have immigrated to the U.S. every year since the country opened its doors to Asians under the Immigration Naturalization Act revised in 1965. According to the Federal Immigration Services Administration (USICS), 23,166 South Koreans acquired U.S. permanent residency in the country in fiscal 2013 alone. This is more than 10 percent of the natural increase in the number of people in South Korea in one year. Today's majority of immigrants are immigrants through work or investment rather than family invitations, and more recently, educational immigration has been on the rise in order to allow their children to receive early English education because they dislike the Korean education system. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 15,786 permanent residents of South Korea acquired U.S. citizenship in fiscal 2013. This number does not include the number of natural born citizens born from long-term residents such as international students. Recently, North Koreans have also immigrated to the U.S. because the U.S. government recognizes and accepts North Korean defectors from the North as refugees from political persecution. The number of Korean-Americans is estimated to be between 2 million and 3 million, but the exact number is not available. The Ministry of Homeland Security also estimates that about 200,000 Korean visitors are staying in the U.S. as undocumented (2009). If the recent immigration reform pursued by the U.S. government is successful, most of them are expected to be pardoned and open the way for legal settlement.
The American dream means the belief of immigrants in the U.S. that "anyone who works hard can live an improved life with plenty of wealth and freedom."
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