HW Help: Question regarding Puerto Rico and citizenship

[TigerMan]

I'm in need of some homework help, and wanted to see if anybody here could help me. I'm doing a citizenship thing for Puerto Rico, and since it's a commonwealth of the US, the people of Puerto Rico are US citizens. My question though is that if there not born a citizen, and someone who is not a citizen of the US moves to Puerto Rico, do the same citizenship standards apply to them (meaning how you become a citizen of the US)? Thanks for the help.

[-J�ker-]

to be a citezen of the US you need to either be born here or immigrate here and apply for citizenship which is called naturalization.

[1stdeadeye]

Re: HW Help: Question regarding Puerto Rico and citizenship

Originally posted by TigerMan
I'm in need of some homework help, and wanted to see if anybody here could help me. I'm doing a citizenship thing for Puerto Rico, and since it's a commonwealth of the US, the people of Puerto Rico are US citizens. My question though is that if there not born a citizen, and someone who is not a citizen of the US moves to Puerto Rico, do the same citizenship standards apply to them (meaning how you become a citizen of the US)? Thanks for the help.

As immigration rules are Federal, they appy the same throughout the land. It does not matter if you live in Puerto Rico, Guam, or even West-By-God-Virginia, naturalization is the same process.

[krafty]

Interestingly enough, if you're born in Puerto Rico, you get all the benefits of US Citizenship, but you don't pay Federal taxes.

[TigerMan]

Originally posted by krafty
Interestingly enough, if you're born in Puerto Rico, you get all the benefits of US Citizenship, but you don't pay Federal taxes.

Not all benefits. There represetation in Congress doesn't get a vote, so really they don't have much of say in some matters. They have some other things also, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

[sneakyhacker420]

first of all, you gotta swin over to the US border, escape capture by border patrol, then you have to avoid angry texans with pitchforks and shotguns, then last of all, you need to get a green card


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my revised version of illegal immigration and becoming a [possibly real] US citizen