Dear Current or Future President,

I am a seventeen year old soon to be eighteen on 11/09/08. I have had a very important concern for over eleven years. I am writing to ask you if you can help me acquire my citizenship. For fifteen years, I have considered myself Haitian-American. In those past years, my family has been trying to so hard to make me a United States citizen. We have been going through my adoption agency the Three Rivers and have been going through the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) and we have been ignored while the process has been drawn out. The INS has repeatedly told us that we must get my citizenship before I am eighteen years of age. They also told us that we must have a sponsor and that we have to have a certain amount of income to achieve this. We were also informed that before I get my official citizenship, I must get a green card. This of course would take a ridiculous amount of money and time. My parents are not able to work, they are disabled, and so coming up with the money is very hard for them. We have looked for anyone that is willing to sponsor me, but no one came through. They are worried that they would be responsible for my medical bills and such. My family is not what you call rich or middle class, we are happy and comfortable. Without my citizenship, I cannot vote, I cannot get a job, I cannot leave the country, I cannot get any acceptances to any college, and I cannot get any scholarships. I want to be able to call myself a United States citizen because of the pride that comes with it; I want to have that pride. If you can please help me acquire my citizenship, my pride will be raised, and I can finally go around exclaiming that I am a United States citizen.

Sincerely,

Marlene Gail Noble