Carmen Helasse(L) originally from Trinidad and Tobago embraces her new fellow citizen Fidinarivo Andriambalohery originally from Madagascar as they pose with their certificates of US citizenship under her chin as she applauds during a naturalization ceremony conducted by the US Citzenship and Immigration Services July 3, 2008 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Memra and 49 others from 26 different countries became citizens of the US after taking the Oath of Allegiance. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER