I don't believe you have to be a US citizen to take the California BAR. Before porn while I was in college, I worked full time managing a hotel in the Bay Area. Four times a year the local hotels would book up solid because they held testing at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. A lot of them were Asian from Japan and Korea. They studied the BAR in their own country and flew in to take the test.
I'm guessing it's because lots of these businesses do business in the US and mostly in California, so they have attorneys who study US Law.
Then again, we give driver's licenses to anyone who asks too.
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