Americans: who's your favourite naturalized U.S. citizen?

[dennilfloss]

Here's a short list of some famous ones.

http://www.immigrationpolicy.o...int/famousnatz2007.pdf

There's also Alanis Morissette and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm not sure if Céline Dion has gotten her dual citizenship yet.

 

[shortylickens]

Any mexican.

 

[Throckmorton]

John McCain

 

[Jeff7]

Someone I work with on campus, just because I happen to work with her. I don't think I know many (any?) other naturalized citizens.

She just took (and passed, easily) her citizenship exam a few weeks ago.:thumbsup:

 

[sonambulo]

Nikola Tesla.

Salma Hayek's jugs are a close second.

 

[irishScott]

Asimov and Einstein top my list.

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Asimov and Einstein top my list.

Bet you like Von Braun too.

 

[Woosta]

Ahnuld

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: irishScott
Asimov and Einstein top my list.

Bet you like Von Braun too.

Yeah, he's up there.

 

[pyonir]

Any one of them that doesn't spell "favorite" with a "u".

 

[Juno]

dennifloss if he moves to america.

 

[Steve]

Me if I do the test.

 

[imported_Devine]

Originally posted by: Woosta
Ahnuld

The Governator!

 

[QurazyQuisp]

One of my least favorite, and she's on the list... Jennifer Granholm.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
John McCain

He was born on US soil to two American parents... he's a natural born citizen even if the US soil he was born on was in Panama.

 

[gwrober]

My mother. :heart:


Then Ahnuld. :heart::heart:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Dude, Celine Dion?

Whatever country she's from can keep her as far as I'm concerned. :thumbsdown:

 

[REEE]

Anthony Hopkins/Sergei Rachmaninov/John Muir

Acting, Music, and Conservation!

 

[legoman666]

pdf = no

 

[Quasmo]

Einstien then Hitchcock.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
John McCain

:roll:

§ 1403. Persons born in the Canal Zone or Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904
(a) Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States.
(b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Company, or its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United States.

 

[Juno]

laurent clerc

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Dude, Celine Dion?

Whatever country she's from can keep her as far as I'm concerned. :thumbsdown:

sorry, she was in Vegas for so long that we just assumed you wanted her to keep. *shrug*

her heart will go on, or so I'm told.

 

[Casawi]

Navratilova

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: irishScott
Asimov and Einstein top my list.

Bet you like Von Braun too.

Yeah, he's up there.

Von Braun was a proper no-bullshit all-genocide heil hitler nazi. He personally recommended slave labour for the building of the V2 rocket.