American Citizen Interview Paper

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Interview Interviewee Name: Ninita (Chris) Paul How do you know the interviewee?: She is my mother. Q: What inspired you to become a U.S. citizen? A: I went to look at my green card one day, and I noticed that it was going to expire within a month. Knowing that, I went to a lawyer in New York and he told me that I could renew it, but that the card would expire again and that he didn’t know how much it would cost for me renew it the next time. He advised me to get my citizenship. Q: What steps did you have to take as part of the naturalization process? A: I studied U.S. history, took the exam, got my fingerprints taken, and went to New York for the lawyer to file it for me. Q: How would you describe how you felt about the process? …show more content…

The morning after I went to do the exam and they told me I passed it I had to go back that same afternoon to swear in. What made the whole thing really nice was the video of Obama to welcome me as a U.S. citizen. The first black president. And, what was even better was the fact that the day I got my certificate was my

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