Citizenship offers substantially more benefits than permanent residency. Here are a few of the many reasons to naturalize:
Risk of abandonment
Permanent residents can travel internationally, but must be cautious about spending too much time outside of the U.S. If you spend a year outside of the U.S., you will be presumed to have abandoned your permanent residency, and you risk being placed in removal proceedings and possibly deported.
Even those permanent residents who have spent less than a year outside the U.S. might be accused of abandoning residency. Unfortunately, there is no...