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Kadie

(15,369 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 04:27 PM Jun 2012

102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman & 7000 others representing 120 countries become US citizens-pics


LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: The oldest candidate to become a U.S. citizen 102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman from the Philippines raises his arm to take the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. More than 7,000 candidates became citizens representing more than 120 countries.




LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: Actor Gilles Marini from France (L) and the oldest candidate to become a U.S. citizen 102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman, from Philippines, hold up their citizenship certificates after a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. More than 7,000 candidates became citizens representing more than 120 countries among them a and the.


LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: U.S. citizenship candidates actor Gilles Marini, (L) from France, speaks with U.S. Army Ssg. Fabrizio Bustos before Marini and Bustos take the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. More than 7,000 candidates became citizens representing more than 120 countries among them the oldest candidate to become a U.S. citizen 102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman, from Philippines.


LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: U.S. citizenship candidates wait to take the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. More than 7,000 candidates became citizens representing more than 120 countries among them actor Gilles Marini, from France, and the oldest candidate to become a U.S. citizen 102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman, from Philippines.












LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 27: Sunny Khojasteh, from Iran, holds up her U.S. citizenship ceretificate as she gets her picture taken standing next to a cardboard cut out of U.S. President Barack Obama in a voter registration booth sponsored by the Demeocratic party after a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. More than 7,000 candidates became citizens representing more than 120 countries among them a and the oldest candidate to become a U.S. citizen 102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman, from Philippines.



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102 year-old Joaquin Arciago Guzman & 7000 others representing 120 countries become US citizens-pics (Original Post) Kadie Jun 2012 OP
He's 102 and from the Philippines? Scootaloo Jun 2012 #1
 

Scootaloo

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1. He's 102 and from the Philippines?
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 04:34 PM
Jun 2012

...Constitutionally speaking, isn't he ALREADY a US citizen, then? The Philippines were a United States territory at that time. Oh well...

Best of luck to them all.

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