Category Archives: Great Americans
Immigration Insider articles in this category include information about Great Americans — American immigrants that have contributed to the United States' success.
If You Love America, Thank an Immigrant on Thanksgiving
November 26, 2019 Great Americans, U.S. Historyveterans
This Thanksgiving as you debate President Trump's most outrageous quotes at the dinner table, take a moment to thank an immigrant.
Immigration reform may have many Americans divided, but we should all agree on this – immigrants have given back to America in spades. Immigrant contributions to this country are endless. For over two hundred years, immigrants' contributions have helped shape the United States into what it is today. Let's give thanks. Continue reading →
Holidays We Wouldn't Celebrate Without Immigrants
July 4, 2017 Great Americans, Immigrant Life, U.S. History
As Americans we sometimes take for granted the holidays that we celebrate. After all, there are so many holidays with various religious and cultural origins. But each holiday begs the question, "For what reason do we celebrate this day?" On so many of these special days, we need to be thanking the immigrants that came before us. For without their willingness to take a risk by leaving one home and venturing to the United States for a new home, we wouldn't celebrate these holidays. Continue reading →
Amazing Immigration Quotes from U.S. Veterans
November 11, 2016 Great Americans, U.S. Historymilitary, veterans
On this Veterans Day, CitizenPath recognizes the contributions of immigrants that have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Share these immigration quotes from great Americans.
"Dear America, I am an Arab American, but a proud American just like you (…) On that dreadful day, September 11th, my duffel bag was already packed and I was waiting to answer the call of duty. Why was I ready? I also want a better and safer America just like you. When it comes to patriotism and loyalty, I am red, white and blue, just like you."
Sergeant Mahmoud El-Yousef in an open letter to American news outlets, February 2007
Immigrant Heritage Month – The American Story
May 31, 2016 Great Americans, Immigration Reform, U.S. History
CitizenPath is proud to support the third annual Immigrant Heritage Month this June. Immigrant Heritage Month celebrates a United States that is fueled by immigrants from around the world and the honors ways in which America and the immigrants who have built our country are linked in a shared, productive history. Continue reading →
Remembering Immigrant Soldiers on Memorial Day
May 30, 2016 Great Americans, U.S. Historymilitary
By Patrick Young, Long Island Wins
Memorial Day originated at the end of the Civil War in Charleston, S.C. when former slaves organized a day to honor Union prisoners of war who had died in a racecourse used to incarcerate them. Over the coming years the tens of thousands of graves of Union soldiers buried in the South would be tended every year on Memorial Day by freedmen and freedwomen. The graves were despised by many Southern whites who saw the Union soldiers as invaders, but for the African Americans the Union soldiers were liberators who had ended slavery.
A quarter of those soldiers' graves belonged to immigrants. Immigrants had made up half of the professional soldiers in the United States army before the war, and nearly half-a-million served in the Union army. Continue reading →
The Startup Visa Shutdown
November 4, 2014 Great Americans, Immigration Reform, Working in the U.S.startup visa
Why does the United States provide visas to people who need a job but not people who want to create jobs in the United States? That's the startup visa question.
Brilliant minds from around the world are able to come to the United States on student visas. We gladly educate them in our best universities, then generally ask them to leave. Likewise foreign entrepreneurs with next-generation ideas and dreams of launching a new business are given no welcome mat. With no existing family in the U.S., the only way for these people to immigrate to the U.S. is through employers.
That's right. The country that prides itself on entrepreneurial, can-do spirit provides no such avenue for immigrants that want to come here to build business and grow jobs. There is no startup visa. Continue reading →
U.S. Citizenship Was Easy for These People
July 24, 2014 Citizenship, Great Americans, U.S. HistoryN-400
Honorary U.S. citizenship is wonderful. No confusing USCIS applications and instructions. No waiting for the mail to give you news. No biometrics appointments or scary interviews. It's all easy. There's just one catch…
Gaining honorary citizenship in the United States will literally take an Act of Congress. It has only happened seven times, and five of the individuals were already dead when they were granted citizenship.
Sir Winston Churchill (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British politician who was widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and was granted honorary U.S. citizenship in 1963. Continue reading →
Removal proceedings began. The government wanted Yaderlin to leave the U.S. and seek her visa in the Dominican Republic. Of course with her husband missing and without his support, she could not hope to return to the U.S. What's more, after departing the U.S., she would be barred for 10 years from applying. Her prospects seemed hopeless. Continue reading →