The law establishing the Constitution Day holiday previously known as Citizenship Day was passed in 2004.
Each year we recognize September 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, to commemorate the signing of the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787.
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Each year the City of Alexandria, through the Alexandria Multicultural Services Initiative, joins with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in recognizing newly naturalized United States Citizens through the Annual Citizenship Day ceremony.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2012, as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and September 17 through September 23, 2012, as Constitution Week.
Citizenship Day has a long history.
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The Citizenship Day provides an opportunity for diverse communities to celebrate newly naturalized citizens who were born in a foreign country but live and work in the local community, and for local officials and residents to welcome them to the City.
It was fitting that the 2012 National Consultation fell during the same week as Constitution and Citizenship Day, which is a week where the federal government and American communities come together to celebrate the ideals that our nation was founded on and reflect on the importance of active citizenship.
Mr Okono, who is working as a security guard as he studies for a masters degree, can see himself applying for British citizenship one day.
Is that what we want for the next zealot of political Islam who wants to enjoy the benefits of American citizenship until the day he tries to slaughter as many of us as possible?
Some proposed provisions have drawn sharp criticism from conservatives, most prominently one that could allow illegal immigrants to one day gain citizenship.
The first was that he had to pay tax on his Facebook stock as if he sold it on the day of his citizenship renunciation.
As we mark this 225th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution, we also recognize the candidates for citizenship who will commemorate this day by joining our American family.
Jason Kenney's proposed law change comes a day after a Canadian with dual Lebanese citizenship was linked to a bus bombing last summer in Bulgaria.
On that day, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is scheduled to start accepting applications for the limited supply of H-1B visas, which allow businesses to employ foreign workers with special skills such as teachers, scientists and computer programmers for an initial period of up to three years.
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On the day, 53% of Latvians backed the revised citizenship proposal, enough to make it law.
But he has long held dual Irish citizenship, and his father, the English poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born in Ireland.
Moscow (CNN) -- French-born actor Gerard Depardieu arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Saturday, according to Russian state media, a day after he announced that he had accepted Russian citizenship.
She registered only two people that day but handed out 40 fliers describing the path to citizenship and got an earful about how devastating deportations were.
She registered only two people that day but handed out 40 flyers describing the path to citizenship and got an earful about how devastating deportations were.
The initiative brings together a tactical team of startup company experts and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services experts and tasks them with a 90-day mission to streamline existing visa pathways for immigrant entrepreneurs who create jobs in America.
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Andy Thornton, of the Citizenship Foundation, described it as "an understandable defence of their own subject based on ignorance of another's", adding that citizenship teaching had helped transform schools, inducting pupils "into the social order of the day, empowering them to play their part in its stability and prosperity".
She gets up at 5:30am every morning, leaves the house about the time the kids and I are rising, goes in early to work to get things ready for the day, spends the school hours teaching lessons about mathematics, literature, science, civics, citizenship, friendship, achievement, disappointment, dedication, right, wrong, pride, humility, and more, and stays late to organize materials and set up special projects.
In line with the UN Literacy Decade (2003-2012) calendar, International Literacy Day put the spotlight this year on the empowering role of literacy and its importance for participation, citizenship and development.
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