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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Conditional Resident Visas. For those who are unaware what the full title of that is, that's the CR-1; that's an Immigrant Spouse Visa for someone who is married to an American citizen for less than 2 years at the time they are admitted to the United States. A CR-1 Visa holder is in what's called Conditional Resident Status, so that means 90 days prior to the two year anniversary of their arrival in the United States, they need to file for what is called a Lift of Conditions. 

Now that said, I thought of making this video after I saw a recent posting on the Twitter feed of "Our Country Our Choice" and they put up this thing that said "Biden offers path the citizenship to spouses of US citizens". Now what I thought was odd about this is spouses of US citizens have always had a path to citizenship, and in my mind it's a good thing. I mean if you are married to an American and you don't have any grounds of inadmissibility or any sort of criminal record, why shouldn't you be allowed a path to citizenship, but at least a path to remain in the United States.

 Again a CR-1 Visa is an Immigrant Spouse Visa that one can apply for while their spouse is abroad and process that case through an Embassy abroad. We do a number of those cases. We process a number of those cases from the US Embassy here in Bangkok so it's pretty common for us to be handling those. But yeah, you are on a path to citizenship just by dint of being in Immigrant status because 90 days prior to the three year anniversary of arrival in Immigrant Status, a person can file for what is called naturalization to US Citizenship. So again, there has always been this path and for the most part I am on the same wavelength as Our Country Our Choice. Don't get me wrong, and I very much agree with their stance on the total crisis at the US Southern Border. But that said, I don't see how that conflates in with spouses of US citizens having an ability to basically not only immigrate to the United States, but possibly naturalize to US citizenship. If anything, I think that is pretty much a good thing.