they handed him a green card coming into the united states and what we have today we need immigration reform in this country to grow up a small farm village in his state a register which is known as the land of the kings his father was a community leader in an early age dr he saw how much people lives were changed by his father's your country i would please ask you folks from that country to stand out to be recognized by the crowd and be acknowledged and it's it's a number of countries in fact eighty seven countries  from turkey one from the ukraine twenty two immigration services it's my pleasure to present to you to close in for consideration the first is a motion to grant fifty thousand name change petition and the second is to admit the four hundred eighty seven candidates before you for citizenship u s c i s is found each of these candidates to be a good moral character attention to the principles of the constitution and eligible for citizenship and every respect and now i request raise your right hand and repeat after me some of the words are a little difficult so i'll go slowly i hereby declare on a vote that i absolutely to any fore national importance already under civilian direction when required by the law and that i take this obligation freely so help me god by the power vested in me by the constitution and laws of the united states i hereby declare that from this day forward each of you is a citizen of the united states of america the firm resolve that you will do your best to live up to the old that you have solemnly taken we thank you for that and welcome you to this country we are grateful for the contributions we know you will make as american citizens my fellow americans on each fourth of july the day we declare our celebration of freedom from the tyranny of  the liberty we all enjoy congratulation and go all the world to see i'm proud to welcome you as a new citizen of this comfort may god bless you and they god continue to bless the united states of america this is the most refreshingly inspiring day that i have is governor instead of washington this is the freshest looking face i've ever seen on the state of washington in reciting the pledge of allegiance we just have a few instructions final remarks here funneling the ceremony all new citizen should proceed to seattle center house armory which is right behind you or front of you i may be where you will receive your final paperwork from united states citizenship and immigration services please have your resident card ready to present in exchange for your naturalization certificate seattle passport agency and information in the seattle center house and they will answer your questions about passport procedures and new citizens are also invited to visit the table for voter registration information are of you we just very proud to have you here is new citizens and thank you everybody you cannot to welcome some of the first folks having gotten their papers coming through and being handed different number and then you get to vote and so as more people are registered to vote there are also getting information about getting public affairs officer and i cover the pacific northwest and northern and central california and so what do you would know exactly do you do that well it's my job to interest people like you in the kind of work we do at u s c i s it's no hard job because the people who we help become citizens the people we help get a green card and stay here for the rest of their life are really what it's all about they add the interest possess we're just here to see them through their four and you've been doing this job for quite some time that's right seventeen years started with the ins and then they broke the ins up now i'm with the u s citizenship and immigration ok and then after this you fly back down to separate cisco i think that's right san francisco is where i do my work and that's a place where we naturalize around twelve months of people every two weeks through friday from eight in the morning until six in the evening ok well thank you again i'm sure before you're talking to the viewer it's always a pleasure to appear on adventure t v as we continue we have come across this woman the two actually was part of the naturalization ceremony and you are my names and course i know i'm the u s c i asked district director for the pacific northwest for those i don't know what does that stand for us citizenship and immigration services and so how many folks did you that truly naturalized every year it's just about five hundred today it was four hundred eighty candidates for citizenship or naturalized from eighty seven different countries but you don't realize it other times here too yes we we naturalized citizens throughout the year almost daily in seattle and in other places purview we just you know we've got flaws that allow people to become citizens and these everybody becomes eligible under the current laws that we have what are some of the questions that they have to be able to answer all they have to answer questions about are different branches of government the executive branch the the judicial branch and the congressional the legislative branch of the of the united states about history  the constitution and the declaration of independence and about our political system in general and i know you've got other things to do so if you will learn more from a shit about becoming naturalized or for the process i'm sure there's also a website yes i us c i s dot gov is our website and there's information about all of the services that we provide citizenship greencard temporary work permit  standing in front of the american flag have their picture taken waiting for that opportunity t to learn more about the thirty s naturalization ceremony occurring at the seattle center on july the fourth two thousand and fourteen beginning at noon please visit ethnic heritage council dot org please visit my archive page at seattle 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