US immigration holds naturalisation ceremony at Lincoln Memorial
April 14 2009 by Liam Clifford
A total of 200 people who were born abroad but now live in the US have been made US citizens in a special naturalisation ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate the country’s diversity and the 200 years since Lincoln was born.
The ceremony was also a tribute to singer, Marian Anderson and involved renditions from renowned opera singers. Guest speakers at the event also included representatives from the armed forces including Colin Powell, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) representatives and speakers from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Congratulatory remarks were be made by the Department of Homeland Security’s Jane Holl Lute and the Oath of Allegiance took place at the memorial to mark the freedom of the US people and the fact that so many people still want to move to the US.
The 200 new citizens honoured at the US immigration ceremony included people from 56 different countries, including, Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Laos, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Taiwan, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela and Vietnam.
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