U.S. Citizenship in Two Months?! [Hidden Fast Track]
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- Getting U.S. Citizenship can be a complicated process for some, costing thousands of dollars and tons of paperwork. But is there a faster way? Can you do it yourself without a lawyer? In this video we talk about our experience.
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🎙Ep.55 - My Journey to U.S. Citizenship Part 1
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🎙Ep.63 - My Journey to U.S. Citizenship Part 2
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I’m glad you made it! Congrats to both of you! Now is time to enjoy your US citizenship and all the benefits that comes with it. 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇵🇷🥳
Can you give some examples of such benefits, please? I am interested in this.
I can sort of understand that maybe those already having been born in the U.S. that didn’t take civics in middle or high school might not be able to pass the test, but I know my U.S. civics very well and I am also a U.S. citizen by birth just like Jim, but agree with May that (at least for me) it wasn’t that difficult at all. I completed a review assignment which I totally aced right off the bat, and I was still almost perfect at retaining by memory all the answers. This was my junior year of high school, so at the time Democrat Barack Obama was still the President. I have voted in every election since 2016 (I was born in October 1998, putting my current age at 24 years old), and I feel lucky to be an American without any prior criminal history at all. I know that God wants me to be a good citizen of my country, and man do I love this country even with all its imperfections. It’s THE best country in the history of humanity, and most of my fellow Americans I truly believe have been decent people back to me in return. The Golden Rule still applies and it’s true in ALL faiths. My Christian faith does NOT have a corner on the Golden Rule! God Bless America!
I had no idea this was so complicated for a married couple for US citizenship, even though I know there have been stricter requirements over time. I am glad you both survived the process.
Thanks for posting this video. Congrats. Wish both of you, merry Christmas and a happy new year. May God bless you both.
Thank you so much for sharing this practical info and also for your lovely wedding photos! I think the Venezuelan person you saw in the Citizenship Ceremony, is a friend of mine, living in Puerto Rico for some years now.
Congratulations, May! Thank you both for sharing this story.
Don’t forget Arizona and New Mexico! Lots of people speak Spanish in both of those states. Especially NM. Great video. My wife and I have gone through most of this.
So interesting! Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thanks, Neri!
Oh this is awesome, thanks for doing this video.
Congratulations! Your efforts are inspirational!
Congratulations You Two!🥂🍾
Thanks, Amy!
Congrats! So happy for you both. Gbu
No hemos visto un nuevo vídeo en mucho tiempo. Donde están? Como les va? Se les extraña! Saludos desde Puerto Rico.
Just found you guys on Itunes and CZcams. I hope ya'll haven't quit. My favorite podcast.
We’re glad you found us, and we haven’t quit! We have weekly podcast episodes out every Tuesday. We just haven’t posted on CZcams for awhile. But that will change soon!
@@SpanishandGo suena bien, vamos!
Congratulations 🍾, Mai!! And hubby!
Great idea on this video.
Espero que la vida los llene de muchas bendiciones. Congratulations!
Congrats!
Que bueno felicidades,para ambos bendiciones.
You made it …. Yayyyy congrats 🎉
Saludos Jim y May, May muchas felicidades por lograr tu meta.
The US is full. I made the same mistake and brought in a foreigner.
Yay congratulations missed you guys
We are ready for a new video.
So happy for you! Que lindo, PR los quiere y seguimos sus videos. Muchas bendiciones!!!
Congratulations 🎉🎉
¡Enhorabuena May!
¡Te lo mereces!
Saludos cordiales desde Arabia Saudí🇸🇦🙏
¡Muchas gracias, Abdallah! 🙏
Muchas felicidades!🎉👍🏽
¡Muchas gracias!
Muchas Felicidades ! Saludos desde Guaynabo.
Felicidades nice video.
Seems this channel has stopped posting! I guess you left PR after all your immigration issues were resolved!
They more than likely broke up
Felicitaciones! Q disfruten de sus viajes. Dlb
Felicidades!!! Me encanta la química entre ambos, sus videos son interesantes me los disfruto mucho y aprendo adelante y éxito en esta nueva etapa de sus vidas!!!
Congratulations May! Glad the citizenship process went so quickly for you!
Congratulations 🎈👍🏽💪
I got my temporary green card in 1988. Everything is still exactly the same except the temp card is for 2 years instead of 3, and 5 year permanent card instead of 10. The fees has tripled though, and I dont remember taking any test. Once I got my certificate after 5 years of permanent card, I just went and get a passport instead of carrying around a big certificate.
I just found your channel. Did she get it and leave you right after? This was the final video lmao!
🤣 No, we’re still together. We just started a podcast, and balancing that with the channel and our Spanish immersion retreats in Mexico got to be a lot. Check out our podcast here! podcast.spanishandgo.com/
Hola! So happy for you both that finally, May got citizenship. I just wanted to say that can you make videos on Ecuador like what is the difference in Spanish dialect and accent and kind of stuff because I will be moving there so can you please.....
Not that fast here in Miami. We applied in mid 2020 (peak covid) and the n400 is still in the queue… PR is great for these things… It was the only place I could get my emergency passport renewal…
Congratulations!
Thank you! 🙏
Congrats May!
I feel this, I have been working up to citizenship since 2015 and it’s honestly exhausting lol. I came on a K1 visa and now I am on my final step which is the citizenship. Right now to hopefully see when my interview will be to have this done. 💖
Ur from Mexico? How do you know English? 🤔
@@midnight-user12 I know English cause I have lived in North America for 33 years and no I am not from Mexico
good evening~Spnaish~like it!so awesome job!=))
Thanks for watching!
I wish You guys were still around. I just found your videos and would absolutely love joining You on an inmersion trip. Mi novia es de puerto rico y necesito aprender español rápido.
We are still around! We’ve released a podcast episode every single week for the past 190 weeks (podcast.spanishandgo.com/), and we have over 200 registered students for our retreats so far. Feel free to check out our available dates here: spanishandgo.com/immersion-retreats
@@SpanishandGo that is awesome. I have been trying to teach myself spanish for 3 years now with very little success. It seems most if the creators i find have stopped going things, which is understandable. I love your guys videos and am extremely happy to hear You guys are still around. I Will be following You guys from now on and look forward to joining your community. Muchas gracias por tus trabajos y vídeos.
Nos alegramos mucho y felicidades. En Puerto Rico los queremos y nos place que hayas obtenido tu ciudadanía. Adelante!
¡Muchas gracias, Antonio!
@@SpanishandGo Hasta la vista, baby.
Felicidades!!!!
¡Gracias!
Wait, if we get married in PR through the K1 does he also have to go back after we get married or are we good?
When next video why so long.we are anxious.
Let’s hope things improve there.
Congrats May! Love you 🤗🤗
Thanks, Eddie!
Congratulations May!🥰 Was your interviewer pleasant or were they just direct and stoic?
CONGRATS
9 mos no vids. Do you mention what youre doing now? I enjoyed your vids. Thank you. God bless you.
Welcome to the zoo and Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year
What is your recommendation for a long term apartment on the beach with reliable internet? I have stayed only in Condado and circled the island.
Maya...¡felicitaciones! Such a convoluted process...but 8 years seems so long when you are a married couple...yikes! Friends tell me it is also a difficult process for someone who married a UK citizen and wanted UK citizenship.
Thanks so much, Marilyn! Yes, it is quite a long process, but we’re so glad to be done with it.
Maya could have become a USC 4 years after her marriage under INA 319, which I believe was the basis of Maya's N400 application. However, INA 319 has other requirements, so I suggest anyone applying for naturalization should perform some research, just like Maya did, before submitting an application. Also, she could have applied under INA 316. This last section is used when the applicant has been a legal resident for 5 years or more, regardless of whether they are married to a US citizen. I hope this info was useful.
Are you guys still in PR? Or since you got your citizenship you’ve left the island?
Are you guys still in PR? If so, are you okay on your side of the island from Fiona? I heard power is out everywhere but I’m hoping the flooding wasn’t too severe where you are! Please update us when you get power! Praying for PR!
Can both of you make a video on how not to use your throat when roll or trilling your r's?
Congrats May and Jim no videos why.
Congratulations on becoming a U.S. citizen! That is truly what helps to Make America Great Again.
No it's not what will make it great is true born again Christians turn to JESUS THE CHRIST with all their hearts and lives oh and many sinners will come to repentance and turn to JESUS. This is nothing
Congratulations. So will you be staying or moving somewhere else on the island?
What happened no video at all.
More vídeos please....... greetings from México city.
I have a few questions about moving to Mexico or PR (yes I understand that they are very different in ways to move from the US lol). Is there anyway we can chat?
Hey You?! I´m currently in the process of relocating to the US, AND, getting married to my Gorgeous Baby. Girl, even though she´s also a foreigner who arrived in the US about a year ago. Fortunately, I was offered several vacancy´s that are about to materialize, as, sadly, there just wasn´t a way for me to get a Permanent Residence at the US embassy or different Consulates in Mex, and not only due to COVID; the vast majority of Mexicans in the States are illegalLY, so there´s a ton of legal barriers that didn´t allow me to move on accordingly, even though it is my firm intention of doing it legally. Could the same process of relocating to Puerto Rico allow me to obtain Citizenship, or even a Permanent Residence, in a short period of time? De antemano les agradezco por todo. ÉXITO y PRÓSPERO 2022!! PEACE!!
Is their a fast track for a puerto rico residency?
You mentioned 6 months as the max a temp gc holder can be outside of the US; however, I've read and been told upto a year ss long as the intent is temporary. Can you confirm the source?
You’re right, technically you can be outside of the U.S. for up to a year, but this can call your intentions into question and doing this routinely will mean that you don’t meet the requirements for applying for citizenship. All of the information we got is on the USCIS website.
When is the next video?
It was fast because is obvious (to them) you are a couple. My friend ask for his wife (and her children) and he was in a wheelchair and it took the 5 years. Apparently they couldn't believe she married him.
Congratulations 🎉🎉
Honestly y'all, this video made me cry. My girlfriend and I should be starting start this process soon. She is a Mexican national. I don't even know where we should begin. Do we apply for a Visa first, I don't know? I don't know what's to come other than what y'all have discussed in the video or I don't know how long it's going to take 🥺 All I know is that I love her more than I can explain and I have plenty if patience and I hope she has as much patience as me 🥺🥺🥺 Until then I will be taking regular trips to see her and be keeping in mind that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel 😢😢😢
Have you guys gotten married?
No puedo tirar mi R. ¿Alguien puede tener la amabilidad de decirme cómo debo pronunciar una R al principio de una palabra y una RR en el medio? Gracias
Grabamos un video sobre este tema: m.czcams.com/video/hTR6gYYW5xU/video.html
También tenemos un artículo en nuestra página: spanishandgo.com/learn/how-to-roll-your-rs/
¡Buena suerte!
Felicidades May...que bueno para ambos. Ya no tienen esa preocupación. ¿México permite la doble ciudadanía? Así May, puede tener las dos..
Just found you!
How yal like p.r??? We are moving to p.r soon...we live in Florida. I'm Puerto Rican n my fiance is white. She wants to move like I want it for so long...we thinking on moving to Ponce were I'm from! Tell us how's the difference being there full time. Tony n Stephanie...take care
Puerto Rico is spanish speaking friendly so the process here is generally easier. In the USA there is unfortunately some hostility to Spanish speaking immigrants.
Congratulations🇲🇽🇺🇸🇵🇷
Felicidades
Espero que te llevaron a comer para celebrar lol
Congratulations 🎉 saludos desde Turquía soy nuevo blogger que vivo aquí si quieres visitar bienvenido ahora haciendo los videos caminantes pero me gusta visitar Puerto Rico
When you need to list the times you left the US, is that for trips longer than one day? People who live on the US/Mexico border constantly cross. We cross multiple times a week and have for years. It makes this step difficult I think.
Congratulations by the way!!!!
Hy, only if the trip is for 24 hrs or more.
@@davidmorales9419 i thought so but wasn’t sure. Thanks!
Thank you! Like David said, only for trips longer than 24 hours.
Are you guys okay
Did you guys create a new channel? It's been forever... Hope you guys are doing well
They are posted on Instagram so they are well
@@Cenlalowell thanks!
Where are y’all now
I got married to an American and got my green card. I came here under a tourist b1/b2 visa l. I visited my then bf/now husband and we didn't wanna be apart so I decided to stay and got married lol
How long you knew him before getting married?
Speaking Languages is it work to have a nationality😊😢
Donde están 😢?
I guess they quit youtube
Why don't they make videos anymore?
We are still around! We produce more content now than ever. We just don’t produce videos (for now) because they’re extremely time intensive to make.
We’ve released a podcast episode every single week for the past 190 weeks (podcast.spanishandgo.com/), and we have over 200 registered students for our retreats so far. Feel free to check out our available dates here: spanishandgo.com/immersion-retreats
Congrats. It’s interesting that you talk about how your German ancestors became a citizen immediately they got married and how all that has changed. I did not know that! Don’t want to be negative about it but do you think this it is harder now because the demographics is changing and the immigrants are different? Someone might think this has something to do with just white folks but it is might be also about the US population in general. Let me explain. I became a US citizen through my wife and when we went for our green card interview, the lady who was black just hated us from the moment she saw us. I am a black immigrant from Africa and my wife is a white American from country side, USA. We were pretty naive and in love so did not hire a lawyer. After all, anyone that saw us could see that we loved each other. The lady interviewing us was pretty brash in her questioning and at the end said that she will send us a decision later. Again being naive, we did not know that if you felt that your interview did go well, you could contest it before decision was made and asked to be reinterviewed. Anyway, she eventually sent us a decision saying that we were in a fake marriage. We were flabbergasted. It ended up costing me my job even though my employers loved me. My wife had to go back to work. Had promised her that as long as she was married to me she never had to work. Those were pretty tough times. Anyway, we hired a lawyer to appeal and went through different senators and representatives. The only office that called me back was the office of former President Barak Obama who was a senator at the time. They had looked at the case and could not believe the decision that was given. Long story short, I got my permanent residency after they intervened and became a US citizen. I am still happily married to my wife for 17yrs this year and have four lovely kids. If the lady that interviewed was a white person, I might have felt that it was a white folks thing but this lady was as black as me. This is why I said it might be just attitudes towards immigrants in general in the US population.
Where’d you guys go??? Well, I guess, byyyyye
We’ve been releasing an hour with of material every week for the past several years over on our podcast (podcast.spanishandgo.com/) and running Spanish Immersion Retreats in Mexico. We’ll be back on YT soon!
@@SpanishandGo¡gracias por su repuesta! Les escucho todos los días en la mañana en Spotify cuando ducharme. Gracias por todo el trabajo que hacen.
Congratulations! And believe me, the average US Citizen wouldn't know how to answer those citizenship questions! 😂😂😂
No videos US life busy?
You are 100% related to Tom Cruise
Uhm what happened you guys? Congrats on your citizenship from Puerto Rico.
What happened? This is the last video.
We started a podcast and expanded our Spanish immersion retreat opportunities. We’ve now recorded over 205 episodes of the podcast (podcast.spanishandgo.com/) and we’re currently with our 20th Spanish immersion group. You can learn more here if you’re interested: spanishandgo.com/immersion-retreats
We hope to return to CZcams at some point, but right now those projects keep us super busy. Thanks for watching! -Jim
Where are you both please say you are good happy healthy.
Thanks for thinking of us. We’re both happy and healthy. We’ve been publishing a weekly podcast called “Learn Spanish and Go” for the past 196 weeks. We hope to return to CZcams soon, but in the meantime, we invite you to give the podcast a listen: podcast.spanishandgo.com/
Thanks a lot. I am Lazarus a Lawyer from South India presently working in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. You are invited to Malaysia as my Guest.
You guys are crazy there are no requirements just walk on in :)
1000's are doing it weekly, so why waste time on paper work?
This sounds very tongue in cheek. Even just getting a visa to visit the U.S. legally is a stack of paperwork and more money than most Mexican families have. No, it’s not easy. But if you were lucky enough to have been born in the U.S., Canada, or the EU, you basically get a free pass to visit practically any country with your passport so that you can Travel Endlessly. A dream the majority of the world doesn’t have the luxury to afford.
Such a terrible idea. Violent place, way too expensive and lack of modern-day amenities.
Basically, there are no doctors in the island - that's the most concise way to put it. You will wait for months for an appointment, and then go at 7 am to your agreed appointment where they will make you wait sitting on an uncomfortable chair until 4 pm and the doctor will talk to you for less than 10 minutes.
Most local doctors have fled the island as it's near impossible to have modern-day amenities...power (and thus internet) and water can go out several times a week and it is not uncommon for some neighborhoods to go without for weeks or even months at a time.
In addition, there is a growing anti-foreigner/gringo sentiment at the moment due to a a recent boom in newcomers and the housing crisis this (along with airbnb) has generated.
I tried living there but had to leave…was harassed on the streets just for how I look (didn't pass as puerto rican you could say)...my partner did look puerto rican but some people would become offensive as soon as he spoke and it became obvious that he wasn't. The last straw was waking up to some really disgusting, hateful graffitti on our house one morning. We had our home broken into as well, and this was in a controlled-accessed 'urbanizacion' as they call it.
Honestly, I found the whole thing to be kind of like a scam. Many blogs/youtube channel will paint a perfect picture of PR because there is a lot of money now to be made with relocation/tax/legal advice service companies with the tax incentives....so you really have to dig to find what's it's really like to live there - and as I found out, it's just not worth it.
In our three years living on the island, we never witnessed any violence and never had the go to the doctor, but I understand that medical care on the island isn’t the same as it is in the states. Getting May’s citizenship there was incredibly fast though.
@@SpanishandGo I'm glad you didn't experience any violence...that wasn't my experience. I guess people should make the decision whether to risk it or not, and the stats show it's one of the most dangerous places in the world, both for murder per capita and road safety. And thanks for replying to my comment! Good luck with the channel.
Puerto Rico a US territory Puerto Ricans are US citizens at Birth.
That’s right! We’ve talked about that in several videos. But that’s not what this video was about.
@@SpanishandGo Puerto Rico immigration is not much different than Mainland immigration not really much easier or much harder it depends but you know.
We mainly wanted to show people how the process is. Out of the multiple international couples we know, the citizenship application has taken them over a year. This took us two months. I think that’s a big difference worth talking about. Perhaps it can help some other couples. -Jim
So, what happened with these two ?
We’re still together creating content. We’ve just taken a fairly long break from CZcams. We’ve been creating weekly podcast episodes over at Learn Spanish and Go (podcast.spanishandgo.com/). We’ll be back on CZcams soon!
I wonder what happened to this couple, they just disappeared from the face of this earth, very interesting videos, I guess she got the citizenship and left
We started a podcast and expanded our Spanish immersion retreat opportunities. We’ve now recorded over 205 episodes of the podcast (podcast.spanishandgo.com/) and we’re currently with our 20th Spanish immersion group. You can learn more here if you’re interested: spanishandgo.com/immersion-retreats
We hope to return to CZcams at some point, but right now those projects keep us super busy. Thanks for watching! -Jim