That made us, in some parts of the world, in terms of citizenship, a laughingstock. It is this government that has done more than any in our history to clean up that abuse, abuse that began in 1977 under a flawed model of citizenship, and we are absolutely convinced that it is the right thi
ng to do to require four out of six years of physical residency in this country, and to be able to check that people are actually here, to be able to avoid all of that paperwork, those banker's boxes of
receipts and plane tickets that people used to ...[+++] have to bring with their citizenship applications.