Sentence examples for attain citizenship from inspiring English sources

Despite living legally in the United States for nearly 30 years, Mr. Gatien had never tried to attain citizenship.

There also had to be a tough but fair way for the eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. to attain citizenship.

Mr. Bloomberg has called for expansion of the number of work visas and permission for new immigrants to gradually attain citizenship.

For him, soldiering was a means to attain citizenship in the United States and to accrue money for an education in nursing.

Laws have been passed making it difficult for Russian speakers, even those born in Latvia, to attain citizenship and to vote.

Day by day, they become a part of it, and vice versa — whether they like it or not, and despite the fact that, legally, they can never attain citizenship, or anything like it.

But for immigrants who had attained citizenship, the decline was only 3.9 percent.

Their fear, advocates say, is that participation could draw the eye of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or hurt their chances of attaining citizenship.

He attained citizenship (under the Lodge Act) by volunteering to serve in Vietnam, where he was both a Ranger and a Green Beret.

Mr. McCain has found himself at odds with conservative leaders in opposing the call for immigration measures to prevent illegal immigrants from attaining citizenship.

She wants to enroll at Queens College, with a major in psychology and a minor in education so that she can become a school counselor, all with the hope of attaining citizenship one day.