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Border Patrol STOPPED Her: Becoming a US Citizen LEGALLY is Harder Than Ever - EP54
IVP's own producer just became a U.S. citizen, and she's sitting down with Chad and Cara to talk about what it actually took, and what it felt like the moment she finally got to register to vote.
Lina Alvarez walks Chad and Cara through her path from a marriage-based green card to studying all 128 U.S. civics questions to passing her citizenship test this month, including the multi-year "removal of conditions" process most Americans never hear about. She describes how the naturalization process changed under the second Trump administration, including processing delays, lost visibility into…
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