In addition to the health benefits already mentioned above, optimizing your vitamin D levels can help protect against: 1  Cardiovascular disease. 2  Vitamin D is very important for reducing hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
Citizenship is the status of being a citizen. If you have citizenship in a country, you have the right to live there, work, vote, and pay taxes! Citizenship comes from the Latin word for city, because in the earlier days of human governments, people identified themselves as belonging to cities more than countries. Citizenship is more than merely living somewhere. If you have citizenship, you have a whole set of rights that non-citizens might not have.
Citizenship by Naturalization. The American Immigration Law Foundation fights for immigrants' rights in the United States and advocates continued immigration as healthy for the society and economy. Naturalization is the conferring of citizenship to an alien â a non-citizen living in the United States. An applicant for citizenship must be at least 18 years old, must be able to read, write, and speak English, and must have lived in the United States for five continuous years, or three years of he or she is married to a citizen. An alien must file a petition requesting citizenship.