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18 people become US citizens in ceremony at Portage visitor center

By Bill Roth
Updated: October 3, 2016 Published: September 28, 2016

Eighteen people from 12 countries became U.S. citizens Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Begich Boggs Visitor Center at Portage Lake. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has been holding citizenship ceremonies at national parks and other venues including Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, on the Civil War battlefield at Vicksburg National Military Park, the base of Mount Rushmore, Ellis Island, and at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Eighteen new U.S. citizens from 12 countries say the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the Begich-Boggs Visitor Center. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

Attorney Donmale Gbaanador, left, and paralegal Ziena Vshivkoff take in the sights at Portage Lake after attending a naturalization ceremony in support of a woman from Canada who became a U.S. citizen on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

Lacquelyn Lee Pugay, originally from the Philippines, has her picture taken with her 18-month old daughter, Quieneerich Lee Pugay, after becoming a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony at the Begich-Boggs Visitor Center.  (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

Eighteen new U.S. citizens from 12 countries became U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Begich-Boggs Visitor Center in Portage on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

*Correction: This article previously stated the incorrect date for the citizenship ceremony. The ceremony was on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

Bill Roth

Bill Roth is a staff photojournalist at the Anchorage Daily News.

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