How to Use naturalization in a Sentence

naturalization

noun
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  • The most common way to become a U.S. citizen is through the process of naturalization.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • In 1910, however, the Supreme Court held that the act prohibited the naturalization of any Asian.
    — The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The 400 Stories Project helped inspire the idea of bringing a naturalization ceremony to the city, Zwart said.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • From the late eighteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, the naturalization of Asian immigrants was against the law in the U.S.
    — The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Publishers had to vouch that an author had resided in the U.S. for at least 10 years and was pursuing naturalization or had no viable pathway to do so.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There is a detention basin on the southeast corner of the intersection, too, but the naturalization techniques will not be installed there yet, Lavoie said.
    — Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Both of these tests take place during the naturalization interview.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The fast-track naturalization of overseas players with family ties to China was seen as a quick way of elevating standards.
    — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • While a first in basketball, China has acquired a handful of elite athletes with and without Chinese roots through naturalization.
    — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 25 July 2023
  • Yet if Qatar has addressed the naturalization controversy, the same cannot be true for myriad other issues.
    — Time, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The basic criteria are: place of birth, naturalization by residence, or place of one grandparent’s birth.
    — Quartz, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The struggle for a Jewish naturalization act was an extremely prolonged one.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The next naturalization ceremony in North Texas is scheduled for Oct. 17.
    — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The point of the Citizenship Amendment Act will be to make these naturalizations possible on a national level, and more visible.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Currently, to graduate high school, Arizona students must complete a minimum number of credits and pass a civics test based on the U.S. naturalization test.
    — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The League of Women Voters attends most naturalization ceremonies to make the registration process easy.
    — Nadia Scharf, The Indianapolis Star, 4 July 2024
  • There is a movement underway to require that all public-school students pass the civics portion of the U.S. naturalization test—100 basic facts about U.S. history and civics—before receiving their high-school diploma, and that’s a start.
    — Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024
  • Trump has used the week to cast doubt on the integrity of the November election, pardon a reformed felon and put a shiny veneer on his tough immigration policies by hosting a prime-time naturalization ceremony in the White House.
    — Michelle L. Price, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • This could be seen at the first event of the day, the yearly naturalization ceremony, where recent immigrants from around the world are officially naturalized into the country.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Americans do not have the power to lawfully elect a president who is younger than 35 years old, or one who hasn’t lived within the U.S. for the last 14 years, or one who attained their American citizenship through naturalization.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Oil rich Gulf Arab countries have very strict naturalization procedures.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Finally, he was invited for an in-person interview in April, passed the test and attended a naturalization ceremony the next month.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Classes help prepare students for the naturalization test.
    — Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Over the next three decades, Congress employed naturalization law to strip women who married foreigners of their citizenship.
    — Hardeep Dhillon, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • More than 40 soon-to-be U.S. citizens — all of them women with ties to science and technology — were invited Saturday to a one-of-a-kind naturalization ceremony, the first to be hosted at the museum.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This expansion continued to exclude people of Asian descent from the naturalization process.
    — Stephen Siegel, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
  • Non-citizen nationals of American Samoa are entitled to work and travel freely in the United States and receive certain advantages in the naturalization process.
    — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
  • The country’s naturalization exam will now include a number of new questions, according to a statement from the interior ministry.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • The main center-right opposition Union bloc rejects the plans to liberalize naturalization laws.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Now, Princivil wants to aid other immigrants in their journey to naturalization.
    — Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022

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