Doctor gets US citizenship certificate from Fla. immigration officer whose life he saved

The surgeon who operated on this woman received his citizen certificate from her.  He saved her life and now she has helped him in his life here.    - - Donna Poisl

from Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — An otherwise routine citizenship ceremony was extra special Wednesday for a Florida immigration officer who presented a naturalization certificate to a doctor from Peru who saved her life with an emergency brain surgery.

In front of 450 people from 75 countries gathered in the Tampa Convention Center, immigration services officer Melissa Wingerd presented Dr. Gabriel Gonzales-Portillo his naturalization certificate. The new citizens clapped, cheered and waved U.S. flags.
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