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How Can You Be Half-American and Still Not a Citizen?
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Born abroad? You might not be welcomed aboard. To gain U.S. citizenship, applicants might need more than an American parent.
If you know anyone who’s applied for U.S. citizenship, you’ve heard it’s a byzantine process. For Amerasians, born in Asia to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother, it’s even more Kafkaesque.
Unlike the Amerasians born in Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Laos, or Kampuchea, half-Filipino and half-Japanese children must be claimed by their American parent to get U.S. citizenship. Congress supposedly chose those countries because of their relative poverty, and many writers have expressed outrage that the Philippines was left off the list.
So how do Amerasians — including those born in born in Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Laos, and Kampuchea — qualify for citizenship under the 1982 Amerasian Homecoming Act? They need to look the part. The law states that a naturalization director determines “whether there is reason to believe the beneficiary was fathered by a United States citizen.” That means a judge can decide if they are mixed race by appearance alone.
Is US claiming that no Asian-Americans or mixes thereof served in the Vietnam War?!?
How Can You Be Half-American and Still Not a Citizen?
Is US claiming that no Asian-Americans or mixes thereof served in the Vietnam War?!?
I don't know how a person can be determined to be "Half-American" by looks alone. Honestly, though, people being as they are, what's to keep someone from claiming American parentage and a chance to be granted US citizenship even when he is not "mixed?"
I don't know how a person can be determined to be "Half-American" by looks alone. Honestly, though, people being as they are, what's to keep someone from claiming American parentage and a chance to be granted US citizenship even when he is not "mixed?"
Because there are certain times and places in our history where only US GI's served.
They know those places, the birth documents in that area, they look at the birth date and yes... they look at the offspring with their two eyes. From that they can determine with a reasonable amount of certainty that the person was in fact fathered by a USC; or at the very least, someone serving in the military on behalf of the US government.
It's not that complicated or motivated by racial preference or income.
When considered the light of the whole, it's using common sense to try and right a wrong in our history.
An ignorant and inflammatory post like this should be reserved for the illegal immigrant thread. (And by this, I mean the OP, not your response)
Sorry, but this is not jsut an Asian thing; the US makes it rather difficult, if not impossible for a foreign, single parent to make a claim of citizenship for their kid made by an American citizen.
The American citizen parent basically has to affirm the kid is their's, and the US basically ignores any other claim unless this is done. I have a friend that has been going through this process going on three years now; she got pregnant by a US citizen contractor voerseas, had the kid, he refuses anything to do with his kid and her. The US does not grant any obligaiotns as a parent like it does in the US; so this owman gets no child support, nothing, let alone citizenship for her kid.
Everyone is welcome to browse the requirements, it is not an "Asian" thing, it applies equally everywhere.
As for the thread topic; ridiculous. A person cannot tell by looks, the kid could have easily been fathered by anyone like someone from the UK, Australia, France, etc. Or as another poster stated, an American citizen of Asian decent.
An ironic twist is that those Amerasians whose parents were African American have a better shot than those who might be from other ethnicities. They stick out because of darker skin or nappy hair, and not many people indigenous to Asia (except for some Filipinos and Indonesians) have similar looks.
"The law states that a naturalization director determines “whether there is reason to believe the beneficiary was fathered by a United States citizen.” That means a judge can decide if they are mixed race by appearance alone. "
Reading comprehension a problem here, must be an ESL issue.
"Reason to believe" requires some factual evidentiary basis, and precedent does not permit simply based on "looks."
Stop getting hysterical over something that's made up.
So what if the father is Asian also what happens then.
Agreed or American Indian or even "Hispanic" since many of them ARE "Asian" by DNA.
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Is US claiming that no Asian-Americans or mixes thereof served in the Vietnam War?!?
