--- title: Sofia Vergara: Modern Family Star Talks Citizenship on Jimmy Kimmel description: The 'Modern Family' star tells Jimmy Kimmel she totally aced the citizenship test canonical: https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-04T15:44:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:00.709Z og:title: Watch Sofia Vergara Explain How She Became a U.S. Citizen og:description: The 'Modern Family' star says she totally aced the citizenship test og:url: https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57bdb101b5af964e/69876ca1428a9e283bcc5cf7/456134776.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sofia Vergara Watch What Happens Live - Season 11 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Sofia Vergara Explain How She Became a U.S. Citizen twitter:description: The 'Modern Family' star says she totally aced the citizenship test twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57bdb101b5af964e/69876ca1428a9e283bcc5cf7/456134776.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Sofia Vergara Explain How She Became a U.S. Citizen by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 4, 2014 3:44 PM UTC  WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE -- Pictured: Sofia Vergara -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE -- Pictured: Sofia Vergara -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)Bravo—NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 4, 2014 3:44 PM UTC In an interview on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Wednesday evening, Sofia Vergara — who, thanks to her role on _Modern Family_, is the [highest-paid actress ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/vannale/2014/09/03/sofia-vergara-is-the-highest-paid-tv-actress-of-2014-for-third-year/)on television — talked about the long and “very emotional” process of becoming a United States citizen. The most interesting part of the process, the Colombian-born actress said, was the 100-question test she had to take. But don’t worry — she aced it, getting all 100 questions right. Other hoops she had to jump through, she explains, included swearing that she was going to fight for the United States and “swearing to the … thing.” Vergara also took a moment to get a bit more serious about the process. “You know what? It’s a very emotional moment for me,” the Emmy-nominated actress said. “It took me a lot of time to get my residence even though I was working here for a long time.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Watch Sofia Vergara Explain How She Became a U.S. Citizen","datePublished":"2014-12-04T15:44:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:00.709Z","description":"The Modern Family star tells Jimmy Kimmel she totally aced the citizenship test","url":"https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity","Sofia Vergara"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57bdb101b5af964e/69876ca1428a9e283bcc5cf7/456134776.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57bdb101b5af964e/69876ca1428a9e283bcc5cf7/456134776.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sofia Vergara Watch What Happens Live - Season 11","caption":"Watch What Happens Live - Season 11","creditText":"Bravo—NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3617911/sofia-vergara-us-citizen-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Watch Sofia Vergara Explain How She Became a U.S. Citizen"}}]}] ```