Little more detail on Nukes

[Mobius420]

They haven't been back to Hong Kong since the 90's. I talked to my recruiter about my parents not being us citizens and she said she doesn't know how detrimental that is to my case. I talked to my parents about any ties over there, and they claim they don't have any close connections over there anymore. In terms of academic, I'm right now in college taking precalculus right now and doing fine. I'm just concerned about my parents birth place affecting my chance of getting into the nuke program.

[sweetmtn]

Originally Posted by Mobius420

They haven't been back to Hong Kong since the 90's. I talked to my recruiter about my parents not being us citizens and she said she doesn't know how detrimental that is to my case. I talked to my parents about any ties over there, and they claim they don't have any close connections over there anymore. In terms of academic, I'm right now in college taking precalculus right now and doing fine. I'm just concerned about my parents birth place affecting my chance of getting into the nuke program.

Then all you can do is start the process, during the background check if there is a problem you will be notified, if it is an issue, you may have to reclassify to another rate that doesn't have such a high clearance.

[scott.henry]

If you are a US citizen you are eligible for the Nuke program. Your clearance might take a little longer to come through than most, but your parents citizenship does not affect your eligibility.

[PropertyofBuMed]

Only 1 year 2 months of actual school.. A bonus..and you basically cap up to second when you make tir? Nuke life sounds great.

My situation is: come in as an e1 with no bonus.. 2 years of school, no auto avdancement to e4.. No star.

All yall joining as nukes are very fortunate regardless of what anyone says

[DirtyYellow]

Originally Posted by scott.henry

If you are a US citizen you are eligible for the Nuke program. Your clearance might take a little longer to come through than most, but your parents citizenship does not affect your eligibility.

I've been reading through these threads from various sources for about a year now but I just made an account because I saw this particular post.

I enlisted as a Nuke last year around August, and concerning the whole having parents from a different country thing, it won't really complicate things. I'm from the Philippines and so are my parents, the only real issue was that 1) It took a year to get my security clearance. 2) My parents are divorced and one isn't a citizen and we lost track of him. And 3)Passports. In my case, I had 3 passports plus a green card. When my passports expired and had to get updated, it made a crap ton of problems because it implies that I had dual citizenship. Anyways my recruiters said it would be fine but at MEPs they said they can't give me Nuke until this all got sorted out. So I flew out from Georgia to San Francisco to go to the consulate to renounce any form of allegiance to the Philippines and also giving up my passports and getting a piece of paper stating I did so. Anyways, once all of that was done, it was a legit waiting game and a few chats with the investigator. Other than that I'm off the hook and will be shipping this Tuesday July 11th for boot camp as a Nuke.
Good luck to you, hope you make it too!