By country:
- Bangladesh: 6,683 (the highest number in the previous ten years, i.e. since 1997)
- Romania: 5,484 (the highest number in the previous ten years, i.e. since 1997)
- Peru: 10,063 (by far the highest number in the previous ten years, i.e. since 1997)
In the same year most individuals becoming U.S. citizen were between 25 and 44 years old.
Among the naturalized in 2006 the biggest group in terms of occupation were in the category of management, professional, and related occupations: 64,233. Another 22,654 worked in service, and 50,921 were students.
Roughly triple as many married individuals (almost 460,000) than singles (over 154,000) came.
Filed and Denied Petitions for U.S. Citizenship in 2006
For 2006 the same source says that 730,642 people filed petitions to become U.S. citizen and that 120,722 filed petitions got denied by the U.S. government. [The data does not make it clear when these were filed and why they were denied.]
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The difference in the numbers is that it takes more than a year to apply and get "accepted" So there may have been 700, ??? that applied in 2006 and others that applied a year or two before.
Thanks for your input. I think it would be helpful to know about how the numbers are generated.
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