If I marry a US citizen can I be a US citizen too?

Question

If I marry a US citizen in Australia (I am an Australian) and then she decides to stay here, can I eventually become a US citizen through marriage even though we live in Australia?

Answer 1

No, sorry. You can't become a US citizen unless you have been a legal permanent resident, and to be a legal permanent resident you must have taken an immigrant visa and actually lived in the US for long enough to qualify to apply for naturalization (citizenship):
http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/natz/index.htm

Answer 2

wheter you marry in USA or overseas, first you will get a 2 year conditional resident card, and they give you a new one after two years if you can prove your marriage was not a fraud. Then, one year later, (3 total years) you need 400 bucks to apply for citizenship. There you take the test etc. But if you divorce during the first three years and marry someone else then you need to wait a total of 5 years. And you still need 400bucks. Did this help?

Answer 3

Ok heres what happens, if the person marries someone in the U.S and one is a U.S. citizen then the spouse gets a green card. after a few years they take a literacy test along with a few other things and if they want to, they can choose to be a u.s. citizen. I'm not sure how many years it is but one of my uncles married some out of country girl and i heard that she got her citizenship after 10 years and she left....turns out she was just using him for citizen shiip. So im guessing it's 10 years.

Answer 4

Yes but i believe you have to be married in the u.s and u will b granted dual citizenship so u will b a us and and Australian citizen also and if Ur having kids and want the to b American have them in america and if u want them australian have them there

Answer 5

why become a us citizen when u have the same rigths as the american.u did not come from a poor country.being an australian you can travel any parts of the world.people from the third world countries cannot do what u can do.a blue passport they dont have it.u lucky sod.an australian wants to be american.dont be stupid.

Answer 6

Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. It is largely coterminous with nationality, although it is possible to have a nationality without being a citizen (i.e., be legally subject to a state and entitled to its protection without having rights of political participation in it); it is also possible to have political rights without being a national of a state; for example, a citizen of a Commonwealth country resident in the United Kingdom is entitled to full political rights.

See nationality for further discussion of the properties of national citizenship and how it can be acquired.

Citizenship often also implies working towards the betterment of one's community through participation, volunteer work, and efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, schools in England provide lessons in citizenship; in Wales the model used is Personal and Social Education.

Citizenship as explained above is the political rights of an individual within a society. Thus, you can have a citizenship from one country and be a national of another country. One example might be as follows: A Cuban-American might be considered a national of Cuba due to his being born there, but he could also become an American citizen through naturalization. Some countries like Cuba and the United States of America forbid dual citizenship in the other country because of political tensions between the two nations. Nationality most often derives from place of birth (i.e. jus soli) and, in some cases, ethnicity (i.e. jus sanguinis). Citizenship derives from a legal relationship with a state. Nationality can be lost, as in denaturalization, and gained, as in naturalization.

Hope this bit answers your question!

Answer 7

Yes... a girl from Russia paid me $2,000 to marry me in order to become a US citizen. She got her citizenship and we divorced 2 years later.

I needed the money back then.

Answer 8

i believe you have to live in us for a couple of years then you can become a us citizen but before that, i think you will have to take a test and if you do pass-- then u can become a us citizen.

Answer 9

yes, u have to live in america once while ur married, u wiil be a citizen. If u marry an american citezen in america and live in america, u r a citezen, but u kant vote fer 2 years.

Answer 10

if you marry for love it doesn't matter what country you live in, this whole mail order bride stuff makes me sick, but if your so determined to move to America just marry an old woman, then you can inherit all her money too!!!!