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Military paves way for citizenship for legal immigrants

More than 10,000 legal immigrants in the U.S. military became citizens last fiscal year, the most since the Vietnam War, according to preliminary figures released by the federal government this week.

While the citizenship process for some can take multiple years, about 10,505 men and women in the armed forces took advantage of the government's expedited citizenship process for green-card holders...

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