Sean Marks — U.S. American
October 31st, 2007, 11:33 pm · Post a Comment · posted by jerrybrown
Sean Marks is married to an American, and has two American children. But until he completed a 10-year process last week and passed his U.S. naturalization test, “We couldn’t stand in the same line at the airport.”
He can now, after acing his exam.
The questions that ranged from easy “How many stars are on the American Flag?” to those that required some memory power like “Name the 13 original colonies” and “How many members make up the House of Representatives?”
Now Miss Teen South Carolina might have trouble with the first one — since she likely believes most Americans don’t have maps or flags.
(And by the way, there are 435 mebers in the House. I could give you all 13 colonies of course but, um, I don’t have time … yeah, that’s it.)
”I’ve never voted before, so you can be sure I’ll take part,” said Marks, who was given a week to study for the exam. “It was a little nerve wracking because you don’t want to screw it up, but I was fairly confident.”
Marks had to prove to the State Department that he was still married, still working in the United States –the Suns took care of that, signing him to a one-year deal in July — and that he hadn’t spent any time in jail.
“I’ve been a good boy,” he said.
