Long Process Of Naturalization

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To become a United States citazen you have to go through a long process called the naturalization process. You start the process of becoming a citizen buy submitting some applications and paying a few fees. If you make it through that first process and are approved you are invited to a place to get finger printed to see if you are a criminal or not, and if you are not you move on to the next part of becoming a citizen. After you go through all of that you have to take a test and do many other things to become a citizen. I personally think that the natural;ization process if done correctlly works great the only problem is with the people who are here illegally. Also I do not think that the process should be changed because it is already hard

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