This paper uses individual level data to investigate the extent to which the distance an immigrant travels from their home country influences their propensity to naturalize in the United States.  By merging Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) data downloaded from the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota for the United States with other forms of publically available data, we are able to model the ways in which proximity to home country influences an individual’s decision regarding naturalization.  We utilize composite variables and fixed effects in a simple least squares framework to maximize sample size and control for standard variables that influence an individual’s naturalization decision.  We anticipate finding that immigrants traveling a greater distance will have a higher probability of naturalization and become fuller participants in US society.  We hope that this research will help us to better understand the motivation behind naturalization and how factors may impact the likelihood that an individual will choose to fully integrate into US society.  By doing so, it will expand upon our prior work (Woroby and Groves (2016) and Woroby, Groves and Sullivan (2018)) and contribute to the growing body of literature on naturalization decisions.  Preliminary findings suggest that distance has a strong and positive impact on origin and well as other compounding factors (geographic/political/economic) that may complicate the relationship between naturalization and distance.