Taj Simmons is a multimedia journalist who joined WRTV in August 2023.
INDIANAPOLIS — Independence Day is a chance for Americans to celebrate their country and dozens of immigrants can now celebrate it as American citizens.They include Veronica Lyons, who came to America from Ecuador in 2014.
Lyons eventually married and had two children with her husband. She's excited to put down roots in Indiana as an official American. Kuntal Bhatacharrya moved to the United States from India in 2001 and is now a professor at Indiana State University. He said one moment inspired him to stay in the United States.
His son, Ahan, is now a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. Ahan attended his father's citizenship ceremony in full uniform and pinned an American flag pin over his father's heart after it concluded.
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