If u have a recover can u become citizen of us?

i have been in the us at smallest more then 10 years. i know thats long. but now i'm plan on becomeing citizen. when i was a minor ( age 12) i be arrest and spent (thing) 6 months in juv. thats the only record i enjoy other then tickets (minor). will that affect my chance of becomeing citizen? i don't remeber if that was a falony or a misimeder. its be 8 years now. i was 12 or 11 at the time now i'm 21. thankfulness

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Depends what it was for.

If it was a "crime of moral turpitude" (theft for example) then it could, yes.

BUT.... the IRS have the authority to waive exclusion for offences committed as a minor. Since you were 11 or 12, I do not see a problem.

Richard

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