Almost 40,000 Dominicans were naturalized as US citizens in the United States in the US Fiscal Year 2024 (September 2023 to October 2024), according to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) statistics. El Dia reports that the Dominican Republic is the fourth country in number of nationalized citizens. The Dominican and the US constitutions allow for dual citizenship.
USCIS says that the average number of years of a Dominican before becoming a citizen was 9.8.
During the FY 2024, 878,500 persons became US citizens. Of these, Mexican nationals lead with 107,700 new citizens. Next are citizens of India (49,700), the Philippines (41,200), Dominican Republic (39,900) and Cuba (33,700).
Except for Cuba, there is a stark difference in the population numbers of the abovementioned countries when compared to the 11 million...
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