About this title: Passing the U.S. citizenship examination is no easy task. However, the actual test is just one aspect of the entire process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Understanding the complete process, from start to finish, is the true key of achieving your dream. Become a U.S. Citizen can help turn that dream into a reality. Focusing on the many paths to citizenship, it guides you through the entire process and helps cut the time it takes to become a citizen. This important resource gives you everything you need to successfully understand each of the steps toward achieving citizenship. - The ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Sphinx Pub
Date Published: 2007-07-15
ISBN-13:9781572485976ISBN:1572485973
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"This book is a competent guide for resident aliens seeking to navigate the often haphazard and arbitrary process required for becoming an official United States citizen. There's helpful advice, documentation, tips for scoring better on a citizenship exam, outlines of basic strategies, practice tests. It's written for aspiring citizens seeking security from deportation, government jobs, no more fuss with green cards, and seeking to sponsor relatives faster. The large typeface is suited for older eyes.
While this book won't substitute for a shrewd, tough, honest immigration lawyer, particularly for difficult cases, it does have basic advice in clear straightforward English such as emphasizing the importance of achieving permanent resident alien status first before applying. There are helpful worksheets and line by line instructions for dealing with USCIS Form N-400 (the necessary application). The glossary of terms in the back is somewhat sparse. The list of words to know "a, and, blue, ..." makes one wonder how this book is supposed to help non-readers? Most likely, a literate helper will teach a struggling non-English speaking relative basic English to slip them through the gate.
What the authors gloss over is that "American citizenship" is a dubious, meaningless term which is more accurately called "membership in America", a worthy goal in a land with plentiful jobs.
But citizenship, ideally, should be a relation between the person and the state which is active, ongoing, and voluntary with specific responsibilities (military service, staying informed about politics, local political participation, voting, jury duty, obeying laws) as well as privileges (police protection, rights in courts). Ideally it should be a contract between person and state, voluntarily chosen by people and celebrated publicly with an oath declaring loyalty to the nation. Real citizens should control government collectively. Further, citizens have a commitment to other citizens to protect them if government becomes tyrannical. For readers interested, see my book "Common Sense II: How to Prevent the Three Types of Terrorism" (Amazon) which elaborates on what citizenship should be.
But most Americans today aren't real citizens. They have little interest in local government, don't know who their congresspersons are, don't follow local politics, don't show up, often don't bother to vote (typically only half of Americans vote although the last election was an exception). And local governments have little real power so it doesn't make sense to participate locally. Americans are political zombies, frustrated apathetic persons better described as "consumers" lacking any meaningful capacity for self-governance. The only way to restore our democracy, in my view, is to summon a Second Constitutional Convention to convene beginning July 4, 2009 in Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
I doubt most Americans could pass the authors' easy practice test about government basics. We elect a U.S. representative for how many years? Two years, say the authors; but this is false -- after winning, a representative will stay in office for life (correct answer) because it is practically impossible for a challenger to unseat him or her. Congressional re-election rates are over 90% because of rigged rules with free mailings, gerrymandering, access to cash (see Ginsberg's "The American Lie"). Who does a U.S. Senator represent? The authors say: all people of the state. Again, wrong because senators represent themselves (correct answer), plus corporate and union clients, lobbyists, not people like you and me. If the Constitution is supposedly the law of the land, then why do authors like Kevin R. C. Gutzman write books entitled "Who Killed The Constitution?" That the authors devote two pages to the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving suggest the citizenship process is borderline farcical.
This book is an effective outline for wannabe Americans to navigate the difficult shoals of becoming a "citizen", with helpful information about residency requirements and practical tips for how to answer a superficial citizenship exam. It will teach resident aliens about Thanksgiving turkeys and gravy which is important to know, unfortunately, for convincing skeptical immigration officers that one is ready to be a real American. This book won't replace a sharp immigration lawyer. People who slip past the immigration gate and become Americans should not be fooled that they've become real citizens but really consumer-members like the rest of us, and for them, let me say, welcome to America!"
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