While I’ve never done any research into her timeline, from what little I have read about it, I’m still wondering how she became a citizen. She went from somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya then here. She’s 37 and has been a citizen for 20 +/- years putting her becoming a citizen around 17. She was in a refugee camp at 12yrs old and then comes to the US. If that timeline or math is right, how does she become a citizen in 4 or 5 years? I thought it took much longer than that to get naturalized.
Anyone know more about it?
Refugee... you have been physically present in the United States for at least one year to apply for a Green Card (lawful permanent resident).
Green card... the basic rule is that you cannot apply for U.S. citizenship until you have lived in the United States as a lawful permanent resident for at least five years.
From wiki ...After first arriving in New York in 1992, Omar’s family secured asylum in the U.S. in 1995. Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.
Derivative citizenship through her father because she was a minor.