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Ömer Özak will take his U.S. citizenship oath this week — just in time to register as a voter in the contentious Nov. 3 presidential election. He’s coming in just under the wire: The Southern Methodist University economics professor was stuck in a huge backlog of more than 700,000 applications at the federal agency that vets and approves new citizens. …

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