Congratulations to Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara! She is now an officially full-fledged U.S. citizen.
The 42-year-old actress had apparently passed her naturalization test just recently with flying colors. She revealed this proud moment of hers to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday evening, December 3.
According to the voluptuous actress on the process of her naturalization, "They make you [jump through hoops] because they have to make sure that you deserve to be part of the country," she narrated to Kimmel. "The most interesting thing for me was, they give you like a hundred questions that you have to learn, and then they give you a quiz, like a test."
The funny star proudly said, "I got all questions perfect. Yes, all of them... I got all the questions!"
The Colombia-born actress had moved to Miami in the United States when she was still in her 20s which allowed her to have years of learning the information needed to pass the examination. The applicants are actually given an oral exam from a list of 100 questions. Then, Vergara had recited the Oath of Allegiance and thus aligning herself with the country.
"You swear that you're going to fight for the United States... I'm ready!" she continued. "They make you do the swear of the thing... It was easy because the swearing of the thing, you don't have to memorize or anything. You just repeat! I did it really fast so he didn't know if I was doing it right." The actress then added, "You know what? It's a very emotional moment for me. It took me a lot of time to get my residence even though I was working here for a long time."
Vergara also admitted that her high-profile career had made citizenship a necessity.
