This led me to a nice thread about a naturalization ceremony:https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/977557053538471937 …
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I wasn't aware of the rule that you had to be examined in the state of your residence, and gave him some lip about this being Federal citizenship. At that point he threatened to summarily cancel my application and I had to grovel. I was 23 and had lived in the US 17 years
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My next examiner, in the bureaucratically correct Vermont, was one of the kindest public servants I ever met. You get all kinds.
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My one wish for natural-born Americans is that they be required, at age 18, to go through the same civics test and citizenship ceremony that all of us who came here from abroad go through, and join the people being naturalized in that courtroom.
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And best of luck out there to all those waiting in the lengthening citizenship queue, or waiting for a green card, or stressing out over the fiancé visa interview, or simply living here in daily fear of an ICE deportation squad. To all of my fellow immigrants I say: Hail Hydra!
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I wonder why do you need to prove you can speak English as the US doesn’t have an official language.
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