Jany Paulett, formerly of Colombia, right, and her son Diego, center, laugh as Paulett's brother Jose Ortiz, left, snaps a photograph of her after Paulett was sworn in as a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony in Federal Court in Toledo.
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Mourhaf Traboulssi, left, snaps a picture of his wife Bana.
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Ehab Abouadi smiles as he takes a look at his papers after being sworn in as an American citizen.
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Marco Capelli, formerly of Italy, center, smiled as he listened to Judge Richard Speer talk.
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Soon-to-be citizens clutched their American flags.
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Ford Roberts, 12, center left, and his sister Kimberly, 14, center right, joined others in snapping pictures of their loved ones. The siblings' mother, Candelaria Roberts, was sworn in as a U.S. citizen.
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Matthew Santiago, right, attempted to quiet his four-month-old grandson Angelo. Santiago's wife, Nilka Mateo, formerly of the Dominican Republic, was being sworn in as a U.S. citizen.
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Kevin Yu, a formerly of the United Kingdom, center, took the oath of citizenship.
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