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CUMBERLAND — When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Supervisory Immigration Services Officer Cindy Lembarra administered the Oath of Allegiance to 33 citizenship candidates during a naturalization ceremony at the Greely Middle School on April 7, a Minot resident was among them.
New citizens sworn in at the ceremonty include residents of Arundel, Biddeford, Cape Neddick, Cumberland, Falmouth, Kennebunk, Minot, Portland, Saco, Sanford, South Portland, Springvale, Westbrook and Windham. They came to the United States from Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, India, Iraq, Italy New Zealand, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Somalia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.
Welcoming remarks at the ceremony were by Jeff Porter, superintendent of Maine School Administrative District 51, and keynote remarks were from Ekhals Ahmed, who teaches English at Casco Bay High School, and runs a program called Make It Happen, which prepares multilingual students for college.
For more information on immigration services, visit www.uscis.gov.
