Sentence examples for achieved citizenship from inspiring English sources

Across all immigrant groups, 61percentt of those eligible have achieved citizenship.

Uniformed service is not often considered a major part of Chinese American life and culture today, yet through a decade of formative struggles in the 1940s, this World War II generation has achieved citizenship for themselves and their family members, transformed Chinatowns, and helped to establish the integrated landscape we know today.

Congress reasoned that seven years was long enough to achieve citizenship.

If a bill passes, he and the Democratic party will be a hero to millions of Latino voters – while preparing to welcome in millions more new likely Democratic voters after they achieve citizenship.

We believe that the elimination of all forms of discrimination – not only those based on gender, but also on class, race, belief or ideological affiliation – is the way to achieve citizenship for all".

He would also approve laws to grant legal status to undocumented farm workers, and a bill to allow some 65,000 high-school graduates, illegally resident in America, first to go to college with the same fees or aid as their legal peers and then to achieve citizenship.

As a senator, he has largely supported the White House view on tightening immigration controls, while offering a means for some undocumented migrants to achieve citizenship.

He argues that Jews should not have to resort to the expedient of baptism as a means for achieving citizenship and civil rights (as some (Jewish) contemporaries had proposed), on the grounds that this expedient would be detrimental both to the Jews and their religion and to Christianity.

The Immigration and Nationality Act expressly says that immigrants may only achieve citizenship by coming to this country legally.

Affirming a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants does not mean all such immigrants would achieve citizenship, nor would it likely be available to them immediately.

It will take up to thirteen years for undocumented immigrants to achieve citizenship, and one wonders how many will never achieve that dream, either moving elsewhere, returning home or dying of old age along the way.