Yin-Ching Lee's American friends call her Katy. The petite, soft-spoken, 37-year-old native of Taiwan came to the Sooner State in the fall of 1998 to study finance at Oklahoma City University.


Friday, she and 150 others, representing 38 countries, became American citizens at the federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City.

"Maybe because I'm pregnant and I'm more emotional. Or maybe it's because it was such a long and slow process, but when I was looking at the president's speech, I kind of teared up,â€