EditorialUS Army Veteran Miguel Escobedo, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Mexico, at his home in Houston on Dec. 31, 2022. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialTy Schultz (77), whose Chinese name is Zheng Enlai, is among several naturalized players on the Chinese men’s hockey team. Jeremy Smith, the goalkeeper, has no Chinese ancestry but plays professionally in China. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden presents Sandra Lindsay with an Outstanding American by Choice award, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services program that recognizes citizens who have been naturalized, as they participate in a naturalization ceremony at the White House in Washington on Friday, July 2, 2021. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), a naturalized citizen who was born in Japan, during a Senate hearing in Washington, May 6, 2019. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialDoreen Oport, who was injured when a truck bomb tore through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 7, 1998, at a nature park in Mansfield, Texas, June 18, 2020. (Nitashia Johnson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Washington, Sept. 10, 2019. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The New York Times)