I was told linguists’ BI almost always takes longer because most of them are born outside of the US. Good thing Snowden, Aims and Hanssen were born in the US of A, nothing to worry about there.
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Gentlemen please be at ease. Yes I am dual citizen but I don’t recognize my other citizenship and I don’t have the means to renounce it . There is nothing tying me to Syria except an expired passport that’s collecting dirt
Many many many foreign nationals have joined our US military served very honorably and naturalized into US citizens quickly during their outstanding service. Military service has always been a quick path to citizenship and foreign nationals serving have always been an asset to our defense.
In my opinion, again, my 2 cents, a naturalized citizen or a person with dual citizenship will always have some type of affection or obligation to his/her country of birth… .whether by culture or by having foreign contacts that live in that country. the risk is greater for the US government when a naturalized citizen or dual citizen is given a clearance. Sure, there are many outstanding naturalized citizens and dual citizens, and sure there is always birth citizens that commit offenses against the government, but the risk is greater with foreigns.
I respect your opinion but I disagree with your “always” part. I do not have ANY obligations, allegiances or love for the country I was born in. In fact, the opposite is true and I have many reasons for it that I will not discuss here. But at the same time I do believe that people who moved here for economical reasons might still have their loyalties divided. And so I propose to have the following question added to the polygraph: if USA and (insert your birth country) play against each other in the World Cup, who do you root for? I believe this question will sort a lot of things out.
ah, the Tebbit Test
Wow, I didn’t know this is a thing :). Tebbit test it is then!
I’m afraid that’s not how polygraphs work from what I heard . Strictly yes or no questions but your heart is in the right place
Plenty of US naturalized citizens who hold absolutely no allegiance to their foreign countries. We are a country of immigrants with a culture of heterogeneous people from all over. I once had someone apologize to me for not having an “American” sounding name and I stopped them in their tracks by asking “What exactly is an “American” sounding name???”
That was true at one time.