Around three dozen children from Asia and Latin America are scheduled to receive citizenship certificates at a special ceremony in New Mexico.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is scheduled Friday to present the certificates in Rio Rancho, New Mexico for minors who recently have earned citizenship through their parents.
The children, from ages 5 to 16, earned citizenship after they were adopted or after a parent became a naturalized citizenship.
Officials will administer an Oath of Allegiance.
The agency says the children are originally from places such as Iraq, China, Mexico, and Cuba.
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