A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that a small number of undocumented immigrants actually want to become U.S. citizens. A third of all Mexican nationals living in the U.S. who have green cards and could legally become citizens actually do so. In addition, a 2010 Department of Homeland Security showed that 40 percent of 2.7 mil lion immigrants who benefited from the 1985 amnesty program became immigrants.
The Pew report states that “creating a pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally does not mean all would pursue that option.”
Thus, Fox News Latinos concludes that the new amnesty program being debated in Washington would create a huge new crop of legal residents, but not U.S. citizens.
Why might that be? According to the report, lack of confidence in their English skills and the high cost of the naturalization process were cited as the main obstacles.
According to US Immigration lawyers in Thailand, many Thai nationals also have no desire to immigrate to the U.S. Usually, Thai nationals that seek to immigrate are younger, and have a spouse or fiancée in the U.S. Most Thais however prefer living in Thailand. Even more wealthy Thai people, who are routinely, granted 10-year tourist visas, or have business interests in the US, rarely stay longer than their trip requires.
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