Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens by joining US military

Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by not_a_test_user on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:18PM (#9809010)

You no longer can say that it's hard to emigrate to the USA: you just need to enlist, give up your freedom and possibly your morals! Grrreat deal.

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Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by walsh-cloonagh on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:11PM (#9809196)

In 2012 1,031,631 people became permanent residents of the United States [1].

Obviously there are paths to citizenship. But some kinds of temporary visas don't offer a path to citizenship (like intercompany transfer L visas or F student visas) and this program could be useful to people on those visas if they'd like to stay.

[1] http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards...

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Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by FireBeyond on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:53PM (#9809134)

And fluently speak the language of your homeland, which the US deems a high security risk and of particular need to have defense personnel with knowledge thereof...

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Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by walsh-cloonagh on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:13PM (#9809206)

Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Turkish are on the list: the languages of NATO allies

The languages of other many US allies are on the list as well.

So, this program is at least not entirely a Bay of Pigs style plot

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Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:19PM (#9809226)

Yeah, the list seems to include a lot of languages that seem more likely to be motivated by potential need for US military to be cooperating with forces speaking those languages than languages associated with threat populations.

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Re:Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens... by readme on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:33PM (#9809265)

If you come in as a MAVNI, you are probably not going to get to do a job using your home language, at least for a long time. It is not easy to get a security clearance as a Chinese or Russian immigrant. I met people who wanted to work as a linguist who spoke fluent English and another language. The guys I met ended up enlisting as mental health specialists and pharmacy assistants.

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