Will my Criminal Record prevent me from naturalizing or getting a Green Card?

Will my Criminal Record prevent me from naturalizing or getting a Green Card? I am concerned because of some misdemeanor "moral turpitude" convictions that occurred when I was a young and stupid teenager. I am a completely different person now and have a very good character.

1967 I entered the U.S. as a baby (with my parents) and received a green card.
1981 At age 14 (minor) I was convicted of shoplifting.
1985 At age 19 I was again convicted of shoplifting.
1996 At age 29 I received a new green card because of the new law that anyone over 14 years of age must get a new, updated green card.
2006 My green card is due to expire in July and I am in the process of applying for a new one.

Also I have two minor children, ages 6 and 17, who are United States Citizens; but I am not married to a citizen.

A. With two misdemeanor moral turpitude offenses on my record, but one being as a minor, and both being at least five years after entering the country, what is the likelyhood that I will be allowed to remain in the U.S.?
B. Am I eligible for naturalization?

A Lawful Permanent Resident can apply for United States citizenship after 5 years of being in the permanent resident status through the process of naturalization (or after only 3 years if married to a US citizen).

US immigration legislation in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) stipulates that an alien may obtain permanent resident status only through the course of the following proceedings:

• immigration through a family member-Immediate relative (spouses, minor children & parents) of US citizens

• immigration through employment

• immigration through investment

• immigration through the Diversity Lottery

• immigration through "The Registry" provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act

Under certain conditions, permanent residence status can be lost. This includes committing a criminal act that makes a person removable from the United States. A person might also be found to have abandoned their status if he or she moves to another country to live there permanently, stays outside the USA for more than 365 days (without getting a re-entry permit before leaving), or does not file an income tax return. Permanent resident status can also be lost if it is found that the application or grounds for obtaining permanent residence was fraudulent. The failure to renew the permanent resident card does not result in the loss of status, except in the case of conditional permanent residents.

A person who loses permanent residence status is immediately removable from the United States and must leave the country as soon as possible or face deportation and removal. In some cases the person may be banned from entering the country for 3 or 7 years, or even permanently.

Criminal-Related Grounds to loose your Green Card

Anyone is inadmissible who is convicted of or intends to commit certain crimes such as:

• Moral turpitude (unless the crime was committed when the alien was under 18 years of age and 5 years before the date of application for a visa, the alien was not sentenced to more than 6 months incarceration, the maximum penalty for the crime was not more than a maximum of 1 year incarceration, and the crime was other than a purely political offense or an attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime),

• A violation of, or a conspiracy or attempt to violate any law or regulation of a State, the United States, or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance,

• Multiple criminal convictions. Any alien convicted of two or more offenses (other than purely political offenses), regardless of whether the conviction was in a single trial or the offenses arose from a single scheme of misconduct, and

• regardless of whether the offenses involved moral turpitude, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement were 5 years or more,

• Controlled substance trafficking or being related to and knowingly taking money from a trafficker,

• Prostitution and commercialized vice,

• Being involved with serious criminal activity and asserting immunity from persecution (i.e. not submitting to the jurisdiction of a U.S. court),

• Terrorism, individually or in a group,

• Or ever being involved with totalitarian groups (i.e. being a Nazi).

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