AFAIK, people who have no official state of residency cast their presidential ballot in the District of Columbia--which is a bit like kissing your sister, if you're a righty! Azure, you should probably make sure that you're on the voter rolls soon. Although technically all Americans have the "right" to vote, that right is frequently curtailed by regulations on when you have to be registered to vote, which varies from state to state. It's almost never the case that you can cast a ballot without already being a registered voter, which is quite different from Canada.
And Lanny--I've been in F-1 status all this time--a Non-Resident Alien, so those years don't count toward even a green card, let alone citizenship. My wife just started a postdoc at UPenn, so we'll be changing our visa status to J-1 and J-2 after 12 months--but I think we actually have to be H-1B before we can apply for a green card, and then Resident Aliens for a while before we can apply for citizenship.
I really hope we're back in Canada before all of that happens.
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