With the recent decisions made by the supreme court, is the United states unsafe enough to trans people for us seek asylum elsewhere? I think these decisions are the government officially saying they do not acknowledge us for who we are. Is it time to start looking to seek asylum?
Do you have ancestry which can be traced to another country? Look up whether or not those countries have a law which confers citizenship to dependents of émigrés from that country. It still won’t be a quick process, so the time to start is now.
For context, my husband and I are following up one such road to foreign citizenship. It’s finally time to submit paperwork, and there is a 13 month waitlist just to hand in the documents. Then an estimated 18 months to receive citizenship. This is assuming that the large influx of applicants doesn’t balloon the paperwork processing time even longer. According to one employee at the consulate I spoke to, they are dealing with a 300% increase in applications this year.