By Roscoe Nance, USA TODAY
Golden State Warriors center Adonal Foyle was among 1,200 people from 94 countries Tuesday who took the oath of U.S. citizenship in San Francisco.
Foyle, a 10-year veteran and a native of the island of Canouan, located in the Caribbean, came to the USA when he was 15. He began the citizenship process 10 years ago.
"I hired a lawyer to do all the paperwork and to get my green card," said Foyle, 32. "I had my green card for five years. After five years, you can apply for citizenship. Then they give you a list of questions. Then there are fingerprints, lots and lots of fingerprints. Then you do blood tests and a whole battery of medical tests. At the end, they give you about a hundred questions to study. After that, they set a time for a meeting. They throw questions at you, and you answer back."
Foyle has career averages of 4.4 points and 5.1 rebounds in the NBA.
He turned pro after his junior year at Colgate University but returned to the school to graduate magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history and says the citizenship test "questions weren't very difficult if you study."
