Is there any difference between "where you from" and "where you come from"?
I'm confused about "where you from" and "where you come from", is there any difference between them?
I listended a short conversation about immigration in radio yesterday, they said those sentences have different means in that situation, but I did't catch that.
Anyone help me? Thanks.Thanks everyone. Maybe I should add some details for this question.
Think about this situation:
An american and a Chinese take a same flight to new york from Beijing, China.
An the entrance, the immigrant officer may ask them the both questions: Where are you from? and Where do you come from?.
So , how they answer the questions?

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Is there any difference between "where you from" and "where you come from"?
I'm confused about "where you from" and "where you come from", is there any difference between them?
I listended a short conversation about immigration in radio yesterday,  they said those sentences have different means in that situation, but I did't catch that.
Anyone help me? Thanks.Thanks everyone. Maybe I should add some details for this question.
Think about this situation:
An american and a Chinese take a same flight to new york from Beijing, China.
An the entrance, the immigrant officer  may ask them the both questions: Where are you from? and Where do you come from?.
So , how they answer the questions?

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Both sentences are wrong.
1. Where are you from?
2. Where do you come from?
There are the same.

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Neither sentence is "correct" standard English.  Standard English would be:

Where are you from?   Where do you come from?

The first sentence as you wrote it (Where you from?) is very relaxed English.  You may hear it -- I've certainly said it! -- but not in a formal situation.  The second sentence as you wrote it sounds very, very awkward to me.

The only possible special meaning for those sentences that occurs to me because of the immigration context is that the person asking is inquiring what COUNTRY the other person comes from; not what city, state, or province the person is now living in, in his adopted country.

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Both are grammatically wrong, and also sound rude or (at best) too familiar for strangers.

Where are you from?
Where do you come from?

The meaning overlaps so much here that you can treat them as basically the same.

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