At his request, I’m now maintaining the results of the former thread, which currently lists 331 Dopers (there are a few more waiting on the sidelines, but thats the number of the most-recently-published summary, in the four posts here, here. here, and here ).
The “Southern USA Doper” thread has developed a side-question as to whether Maryland Dopers should be considered Southern, so I’m not sure what the current total is there (Zeldar gave me by far the easier and less controversial task!).
It has become apparent that there is a need for a similar thread for those Dopers who are currently based in the USA, but were born elsewhere. This includes:[ul]
[li]Those who are now permanent residents or naturalized US citizens, or on their way to either status.[/li][li]Those who are just “passing through” (perhaps on a temporary work assignment, but not just on vacation).[/li][li]US-based Dopers who are “natural-born” US citizens but were born outside the US (e.g. Air Force brat with at least one US-citizen parent, born in Germany or wherever).[/li][/ul]If you fit any of the above categories, please stand and be counted! I’m going to ask you to hold off from mentioning other Dopers who qualify, since I’m sure that we can all think of several and I’d rather give them a couple of days to announce themselves rather than be beaten to the punch. I’ll throw the thread open to third-party submissions later this week.
The minimum biographic detail that I’d like is:[ol]
[li]Where you were born (must be outside the USA)[/li][li]Where you are currently based (must be inside the USA)[/li][/ol]There are several Dopers who have “intermediate transit” countries, and it might be interesting to have those listed too.
Since I didn’t qualify for the Non-USA=based Doper list that I’m maintaining, I’m going to jump right in here myself:
Antonius Block, born and raised in South London (England), lived in France for four years, then moved to Washington DC. Currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not a US citizen.
[I’m not requiring that names be submitted in linked-user-profile-page format as I have done above, although it’s helpful to me if you **can** provide the link – it means one less search for the SDMB hamsters!]
I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I have lived in Alberta, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories (prior to NWT/Nunavut split) in Canada. I moved to Maryland in May 2002 to be married to my American husband.
I am not a US Citizen. I am a permanent resident awaiting the lifting of conditions. I do not plan to take US Citizenship.
Thanks, Ginger. That’s what I consider the perfect post to this thread. I don’t yet know how much of the geographical info will be included in the summary listings, but you’ve given me exactly what I had in mind when starting the thread – with the added bonus of the link to your profile page!
[It’s precisely because of the level of detail that you’ve provided, that I don’t want “third-party” submissions until Dopers have had a few days in which to come in of their own accord.]
I haven’t yet decided whether to group the List by “Country of Origin” or “US State of current residence”. We’ll have to see how the thread progresses!
I was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and moved to Tallahassee, FL to marry my wife in 1998. I am a permanent resident. I am also not seeking citizenship.
I just looked, and there’s nothing in my profile but a description of my interests, so there’s not much point in linking to it. If there’s some other information you need for this poll, let me know.
Born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, but raised from the age of 4 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Live in Baltimore, MD, USA.
Came to the US on an F1 student visa to attend grad school. Married a US citizen, and am about to start the arduous task of attaining permanent residence.
Born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, raised in Utopia (near St. George). Moved to the US two and a half years ago, now living in Seattle, WA. Recently obtained my green card.
Born in Sydney, Australia; spent 7 years as a young child in Leeds, England; then lived most of the rest of my life in Australia until I moved to Central Ohio nearly 7 years ago – first on a temporary employment visa, then on a green card (having won the Diversity Lottery).
Born in Tokyo, Japan, moved to Washington D.C. for 1 year, Boston for one year, back to Tokyo at age 6, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia age 9-12, Canberra, Australia age 12-17, Virginia age 17-18, Madison, Wi 18-23, various Colorado locations since then.
I was born in Sussex, England and moved to the US with my family when I was a toddler. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania for most of my life, but I spent a year studying in Japan when I was in college, and seven years living in Hawaii, most of it working in Japanese tourism. I’ve been a naturalized US citizen for nearly 20 years, but I still sound and act British at times.
I was born in Seoul, South Korea. My dad was in the Army as a doctor (hey, they paid for medical school). I then relocated to Kansas for a short time, and have been in Colorado since then (~31 years) except for one brief excursion to Chicago.
I remember you saying once before that you weren’t originally from here and I’d tried to decide if it was Canada or Australia, as British didn’t quite seem to fit. Had also wondered at your good grasp of our laws and customs. Thanks for clearing that up.
Actually, i’m not really too worried. I just know, however, that this sort of process involves dotting a lot of i’s and crossing a lot of t’s, and wading through a bunch of badly-written instructions and complicated forms. My cousin, who works in DC, just went through the process and said the same as you, that it isn’t too bad.
Fingers crossed.
I actually also have a British passport (yes, that’s three in total), thanks to my mother being a British citizen by birth. And i lived in the UK for two years in my early twenties.
If i do indeed have a “good grasp of [American] laws and customs” (very kind of you to say), it’s partly because i’ve now been here for almost six years, and partly because i’m writing my Ph.D. dissertation in twentieth century US history. I’ve been teach undergraduates American history over the past few semesters, and i’m always amused in the first class at the looks on their faces when i start talking and they hear my Australian accent. I can see some of them thinking “This guy is going to teach us American history?”
Well, I posted in the other thread, but maybe I also fall under this category, too.
Born in Montreal, Canada, and lived here full-time for 22 years. I now have a student visa to go to grad school in Pennsylvania, so I spend about 7-8 months per year down in the States, and 4-5 here in Montreal.
Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and spent my first 24 years there with a couple small co-op term stints elsewhere in Ontario for the last few years.
I’ve been in the U.S. almost exactly a decade to the day. The first 9 months were in Austin, TX and a then a year in Los Alamos, NM all on a F1 Visa. I’ve been in Houston since June 1998, the first year on Optional Practical Training then a couple years on TN before switching to H1-B status.
I’ve just started my perm residence process again after some dry starts and getting screwed around a few times. I doubt I’ll get U.S. citizenship when the time comes. My wife is Taiwanese and we joke that if we each married a U.S. citizen it would make things much easier.
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Lived in SK and Wainwright, Alberta, for a few years, moved to Germany as a base brat for another few. Then to Ottawa, ON and New Liskeard ON until high school graduation. University in southern ON, post university in BC.
Moved to Washington DC in 2000 to marry my American born-and-bred girlfriend (now wife). Moved to the Seattle area in 2002.
Currently a permanent resident, about to buy a house in this area.
