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American government employees do not lose their citizenship.Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images
File an Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization Purposes. Working for the United States government or its contractors, or for a recognized American institution of research, public international organization, or for an organization designated under the International Immunities Act can excuse an immigrant from the requirement to spend five years on U.S. land before applying for citizenship. That immigrant will have to have a residence of record in the U.S., however, and this form will permit that person to claim a residence in the country while abroad. - 2
An immigrant only has to spend a day over half of his residency requirement in the United States.Thomas Northcut/Photodisc/Getty Images
Arrange to have your volunteer spend half of his time working for you in the U.S. or one of her territories. The law requires an immigrant to keep a residence in the United States or one of its territories for five years, but that immigrant only had to spend over half of those years in the United States or in Guam, American Samoa, The U.S. virgin Islands, Puerto Rico or the Northern Mariana Islands. - 3). Hire the volunteer for a position in the same organization within the United States after his time as a volunteer. You will have to prove a lack of able, willing and qualified workers available to your organization to gain government permission, but you may be able to cite the volunteer's experience with the organization's effort in the country involved as a specific and otherwise unfulfillable qualification. The Department of Labor then can grant either an immigration visa or a non-immigration one to accommodate you.
- 4). Bring your volunteer to the United States and apply for refugee status for them. To gain refugee status, your volunteer will have to prove "an honest and genuine fear" of persecution on returning to his home country for such immutable traits as his religion, race, nationality or political opinions, and he will also have to prove a factual basis for that fear, such as a history of persecution of the members of a faith, race or nationality. Of course, the U.S. denies refugee status to convicted murderers, anyone with a history of persecuting individuals for their religion, race, nationality or political opinions, or anyone with an offer for citizenship, permanent residence or some other permanent status in a country other than his nation of birth.
- 5). Apply for citizenship for the volunteer on the basis of her parentage. A child born in a foreign country to two married American citizens automatically has American citizenship. A citizen of a foreign nation born to an American mother also has American citizenship, but the mother has to be a citizen at the time of the birth and has to have spent one or more years in the U.S. or its territories prior to the birth. A citizen of a foreign nation born out of wedlock to an American father can have American citizenship, but her father must prove "a blood relationship" with them, must be an American citizen at the specific time of his birth, must agree to support the volunteer until the age of 18 and must have been in the United States or its territories for at least a total of five years and for at least two years since the age of 14.
