Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

I plan on becoming an American citizen and bringing over my family.

The diversity lottery program is a proven method of offering a path to legal permanent status for residents of African nations and other underrepresented regions seeking a better life here in the United States.

I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.

If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Citizenship obtained through naturalization is not a second-class citizenship.

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

Create legal immigration channels that are wide enough and efficient enough that people choose to go through our system, not around it, We should have an orderly system in which families can stick together, people have rights, rules are enforced, and employers don’t cheat to undercut their competition.

On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.

People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.

Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.