From green card to U.S. passport – (quicker than ever before)

According to a new and unprecedented analysis from the Department of Homeland Security, newer immigrants are moving more quickly into citizenship than those who became permanent residents in the 1970s and 1980s.

Among Asian immigrants who received their green cards in the early 1990s, from 53 percent to 59 percent went on to become citizens within 10 years, up from about 44 percent among Asians who got green cards in the early 1980s.

And while only about 20 percent of Mexican immigrants receiving green cards in the 1990s became citizens within a decade, Mexican immigrants “exhibited the greatest relative increase in (naturalization) rates between the earliest and latest cohorts,” said the report, released this week by Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics.”*

*From: www.mercurynews.com
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