Study: Legal Mexican immigrants become U.S. citizens at a lower rate than others

The cost of the application and not knowing English well enough are the biggest reasons.  It seems that those things could be solved somewhat easily.   - - Donna Poisl

By Tara Bahrampour

Only about a third of the 5.4 million Mexican immigrants who are eligible to become U.S. citizens have done so, a rate much lower than that of other legal immigrants, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Mexicans are the largest pool of eligible immigrants, accounting for almost a third of the 12 million legal permanent residents in the United States. But while 68 percent of eligible non-Mexican immigrants have become citizens, only 36 percent of eligible Mexicans have, said the report, titled “The Path Not Taken.”
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