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Washington, D.C. – President Lincoln’s Cottage welcomed the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to the summer residence of Abraham Lincoln to naturalize 20 new American citizens. Representing 17 different countries around the world, these new Americans took their oath at the residence where President Lincoln developed the Emancipation Proclamation and steered the United States through the Civil War.