Do you have to be a citizen of the United States or can you just be a citizen of a state?
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you can be a green gard or permanent resident if you don't want to be a citizen . being a citizen though will let you have blues passport and hold federal jobs .
Must be USA citizen
LoL..You have to be a citizen of the country..
You have to be a citizen of the whole country to be a citizen of a state.
you cant be just a citizen of lets say new york. there isnt really such a thing.
you have to be a citizen of the US and maybe a resident of new york, which means nothing except your house is in the state of new york and you pay taxes to the state of new york
As protection of the borders is a federal responsibility, they also have to take responsibility for immigration and citizenship. Consequently, one must be a citizen of the US to attain citizenship of a state.
EDIT: A goodly number of responses stating why one must be a US citizen first and state citizen second. This, of course, means that one cannot avoid federal income tax by claiming to be a citizen of a particular state (just in case that's what you were thinking).
I'm afraid that after the Civil War the concept of state citizenship went out the window. You are a US citizen first a state citizen second.
If you plan on just visiting, you can apply for a Green card, which will allow you to stay in the country for x amount of time. Check with your local Embassy for the specifics.
If you plan on staying here long term, yes you would need citizenship of the country. There is no citizenship of the state.
Your local Embassy should have website as well, if that is more convienient.
works like this...Just a citizen of US...Is not such thing as a citizen of just a state you are in... Resident yes but that doesn't means you are a citizen of the US Tat goes for illegal people in the US but to a born citizen wetever like or not is US citizen Got it?
This question seems to have been resolved in 1865.
no you have to be a citizen of the US of A. The federal freakin government
HUH? What are you talking about? If you are a citizen of state, you are a citizen of the US!
United States citizens may become a citizen within one of the 50 recognized U.S. states if and when they meet that states' legal requirements for state citizenship. To my knowledge, no state citizen has challenged the legal system accepting citizenship in a state, yet denying citizenship in the U.S. Perhaps you could be the test case. Contact the ACLU or NAACP. They might be happy to jump right in there and represent you.
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." It is not possible to be a citizen of a State only.
Of the country you must be. The states are not who make immigration laws
In order to stay in the US or any state that is in this nation, you must become a US citizen.
This nation is made up of 50 states. The 50 states aren't 50 different nations. If you reside in one of those 50 states you must be a legal American citizen.
If you plan to live and work in the US for the rest of your life, and you wanted to be a citizen, then you would need an immigrant visa and actually become an American citizen. You cannot just become a citizen of just one of the states, they all make up the entire USA.
If you just wanted to visit, you can get a visitors visa, but you would not be able to work. You would need a different visa for that.
Check the US embassy web site. It explains everything.
Seriously??!! The state kind of belongs to the country. Get a clue!
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