Immigrants are filing citizenship applications at the highest rate in four years, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“The number of legal permanent residents applying for U.S. citizenship in the nine months starting last October is at its highest level in four years, and it is up 8 percent from the same period before the 2012 elections,” according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.

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