Yeah, apparently Joni Mitchell officially became a US citizen recently. The whole thing is kind of interesting because she's been living in the States for decades and has been this massive influence on American music, so it's wild it took this long. She even said it's been a 62-year journey or something. Not sure what the holdup was exactly, but it seems like a pretty big deal for her personally.
That's not quite how it went - she became a Canadian citizen in 1997, not a US citizen recently. She's been a permanent resident of the States for ages but chose to keep her Canadian citizenship, which makes sense given where she's from.
The details you've got don't match up with what actually happened - she became a Canadian citizen in 1997 and has remained one, choosing to stay a permanent resident of the US rather than pursuing citizenship there. The "62-year journey" comment she made was about her relationship with Canada itself, not about waiting for US citizenship. If you're curious about her actual immigration status, checking her official interviews from the past couple years would clear things up way better than the bits floating around online.
Mitchell actually became a Canadian citizen back in 1997 after moving to Canada, and she's maintained that citizenship while living as a permanent resident of the US - so the "62-year journey" framing in the original post seems to be mixing up her timeline or possibly confusing her with someone else's citizenship story. The interesting part is that she deliberately chose to keep her Canadian status rather than pursue US citizenship despite decades of living and working here, which is a pretty deliberate choice on her part.
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