American Citizenship???

Question

I am British. Does marrying an American Citizen, give me American citizenship?

And no I am not marrying a American guy just so I can go and live and work in America

Answer 1

You will not get citizenship automatically if you marry an American.  He would have to file a sponsorship application for you to get a temporary green card and after 2 years you can get a permanent green card.  Being married to an American, you would have to live in the US for 3 years to be able to apply for citizenship.  Since both the US and UK allow dual citizenship, you can have both.

Officially you are supposed to apply for a fiancee visa to go to the US to marry him but I've heard that takes about a year.  The other way is to go to the US as a tourist "with no intention to get married", change your mind and marry him and then apply for the sponsorship.  I've heard it would take you 90 days to get a temporary work permit.  This is the way you can live with him permanently straight away.

Make sure you have a lot of photos, phone bills, email print outs and chat printouts so you can prove your relationship to immigration.

Answer 2

No you would not get American citizenship and NO you could not marry him and live with him right away. If you come here to marry him you need a fiance visa or you need to go home after the wedding and wait for a spousal visa. If you come here with the intention of getting married and staying then you are guilty of immigration fraud. That gets you deported and a lifetime ban on coming back.

If you try to do it anyway you will have to prove that you never planned to marry, that you still have a job and property in the UK. It's very hard to prove and you risk being deported.

Do it legally, get a visa.

http://www.visajourney.com is a great source of free information and advice on how to do it legally.

Answer 3

Nope! Citizenship remains British. You increase the spread for a resident Visa. You can apply for Citizenship in 5 years. I am American. My advice it to keep British Citizenship as there are better benefits. You have more freedoms, health care and most importantly England is increasing in quality of life and freedom while the US is rapidly losing theirs. Only reason most people want to live in America is for the money. Even there there are better places. We are the wealthiest nation on earth two times over. But that wealth is attributed to only 7% of our population. Plenty live in poverty here too. About 45 million in fact.