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Nearing the last step before naturalization, prospective citizens waiting for their private interviews at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Santa Ana are reflected in the glass covering a giant flag in the waiting room. Some immigration offices in Southern California are working weekends to get through a backlog of more than 180,000 people hoping to become American citizens.

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( Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times )

Nearing the last step before naturalization, prospective citizens waiting for their private interviews at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Santa Ana are reflected in the glass covering a giant flag in the waiting room. Some immigration offices in Southern California are working weekends to get through a backlog of more than 180,000 people hoping to become American citizens.

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