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States where immigrants most often receive US citizenship

If you were born in another country and became a legal American citizen, there's a good chance you live in California, government statistics say.

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In 2017, more than 150 000 naturalized US citizens appeared in California, or almost twice as many as second-placed in New York, writes Fox News.

California also led the nation in adding naturalized citizens in 2016 and 2015—also more than 150 each year, the Orange County Register reports.

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New York ranked second all three years ago, adding 86 naturalized citizens in 407; 2017 - in 93; 376 in 2016, the report said, citing data from the US Department of Homeland Security.

The top 10 states with naturalized citizens, according to the 2017 year, included Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland and Georgia (Washington State entered the top ten in 2016 year).

About 40% of the country's new citizens in 2017 came from North America, 36% came from Asia, and 9,2% from Europe.

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Mexico provided 17% of new US citizens, followed by India at 7,2% and China at 5,3%.

US citizenship is a key topic of political debate as America now grapples with its own immigration and border security issues. The Trump administration tried to add an "Are you a citizen of the United States" question to the US Census, but faced opposition in Congress and in court.

In this case, as reported in the Register, new US citizens, as a rule, get much better results on the results of the federal citizenship exam than Americans born in the United States.

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About 90% of people applying for US citizenship pass the test, which is conducted by the Citizenship and Immigration Services. Meanwhile, more than 40% of the natives of America fail this test, according to the Center for Public Policy of Concordia University.

The citizenship test includes, for example, such questions as “name two parts of the US Congress” and “how many senators are there?”.

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