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We were honored to welcome 46 New Americans from 26 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo recently. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Canada, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.