{"id":3755,"date":"2020-11-30T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2020-11-30T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T23:47:05","slug":"certified-us-citizen-tristan-thompson-becomes-an-us-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/certified-us-citizen-tristan-thompson-becomes-an-us-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"CERTIFIED US CITIZEN: Tristan Thompson becomes an US Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen and Celtics Celebration<\/p>\n<p>NBA player, Tristan Thompson, has a lot to celebrate lately. Recently, the NBA star signed a deal to play with the Boston Celtics after playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers for nine seasons. According to the outlet, the $19 million deal locks the player in with the team for two years. Now Tristan is officially an US citizen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tristan-thompsongettyimages-1199375050-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3763 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tristan-thompsongettyimages-1199375050-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tristan-thompsongettyimages-1199375050-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tristan-thompsongettyimages-1199375050-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tristan-thompsongettyimages-1199375050-1.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tristan was not born in the United States. According to CNN, Tristan was born in Brampton, Ontario and moved to the US as a<\/p>\n<p>teen to attend high school in New Jersey. Then Tristan\u2019s basketball career took off early.<\/p>\n<p>The news broke this according to a photo shared by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services-Western Region Twitter<\/p>\n<p>account. \u201cI came to the US on a student visa and have always had big dreams. I\u2019m now truly living the American dream,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming a citizen through naturalization is a process in which a non-U.S. citizen voluntarily becomes an American citizen. U.S.<\/p>\n<p>citizens. Once they become a citizen, the person will receive a Certificates of Citizenship and Naturalization. This is proof of the<\/p>\n<p>person\u2019s citizenship in the United States. U.S. citizenship. Tristan now owes his allegiance to the United States and is entitled to its<\/p>\n<p>protection. Tristan can now exercise his rights and responsibilities as a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen and Celtics Celebration NBA player, Tristan Thompson, has a lot to celebrate lately. Recently, the NBA star signed a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,131,5,34,80],"tags":[1573,1575,1572,450,1526,1574,1571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}