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[John1025 0]

I am a U.S. citizen who has been married to a Japanese citizen for more than 13 years.

My wife's daughter (my step-daughter) has lived in the United States with us also

for 13 years. Both have had Green Cards for the same 13 years. The daughter, a senior in college,

has now turned 21 and she will soon hav to apply for a renewal of her Green Card. She has no

criminal record or any blemish on her record. Should she have any problem obtaining a renewal?

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

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No problems.

[aaron2020 11,651]

No problem at all?

Has she consider getting US citizenship?

[LAKY 1]

Why not applaying for naturalization?

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

Because she'd loose Japanese citizenship, presumably

[John1025 0]

No problem at all?

Has she consider getting US citizenship?

I have but my japanese wife prefers her daughter keep her Japanese citizenship.

However, I'm very sure our daughter is going to always stay in US so she may decide to do it herself.

[John1025 0]

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No problems.

You believe she will have no problems, correct. My wife also thinks that she will have no problem

but she can't explain to me why she thinks that. I suppose if there IS a problem she could apply for

citizenship because she has lived in The U.S. more than five years. She is far more American than Japanese. Most people

don't eve realize she is Japanese. Most mistake her for Hispanic. She speaks and reads fluent Japanese but she speaks English

with zero accent, a quite rare thing, I think. We moved here from Tokyo. Before she started school in America in second grade

I had never heard her speak a word of English. After her first day in school she came home speaking English. It was astonishing.

She also speaks Spanish.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

It's pretty much like renewing your drivers licence. Nothing to be worried about. But like a licence if she does anything bad enough at ANY stage (not just during renewal periods etc) then she can lose her GC. This of course means doing bad stuff, not a speeding or parking ticket or anything like that so I wouldn't be worried.