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By Law or Birth

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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 6 to 8
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     challenging words:    commit, citizenship, citizen, prove, government, become, foreign, constitution, born, application, history, support, country, able, process, someone
     content words:    United States


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By Law or Birth
By Jody Williams
  

1     How does someone become an American citizen? There are only two ways. If a person was born in the United States, then she is an American citizen. If not, then she becomes a citizen by law. Naturalization is the process that a person goes through to become a citizen of a foreign country. To become an American citizen a person must be eighteen years old and have lived in the country for at least five years. A person can become a citizen by marrying an American citizen and living in the U.S. An application for citizenship needs to be completed. A person must live in the U.S. at all times after turning in the .....
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