Between shouts of “We love you, Sunday” from a crowd gathered on Iowa City’s Pedestrian Mall on Friday, University of Iowa assistant professor Peter Gerlach said his good friend and Nigeria native Sunday Goshit “became an American in spirit and character a long time ago.”
Sunday Goshit, a Nigeria native and longtime Iowa City resident who teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, filed a lawsuit Friday after his naturalization oath ceremony was canceled earlier this year. He joined supporters on Friday, April 3, 2026, on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall to discuss his lawsuit.
After following all the rules, passing all the tests, and staying in compliance with a difficult and complicated immigration system for the two-plus decades they’ve been in the country, Sunday and Regina Goshit in December were told their Jan. 16 naturalization oath ceremony had been cancelled. The notice came two days after President Donald Trump issued a proclamation restricting entry of foreign nationals from countries like Nigeria. With the Goshits stuck in a state of citizenship limbo, they filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking a naturalization ceremony. Sunday Goshit spoke to a crowd gathered on Iowa City's pedestrian mall on Friday, April 3, 2026 about the state of legal limbo the Goshits are in. (Vanessa Miller/The Gazette)
Sunday Goshit, a Nigeria native and longtime Iowa City resident who teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, filed a lawsuit after his naturalization oath ceremony was canceled earlier this year. He joined supporters Friday, April 3, 2026, on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall to discuss his lawsuit.
Sunday Goshit, a Nigeria native and longtime Iowa City resident who teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, filed a lawsuit Friday after his naturalization oath ceremony was canceled earlier this year. He joined supporters on Friday, April 3, 2026, on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall to discuss his lawsuit.
Sunday Goshit, a Nigeria native and longtime Iowa City resident who teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, filed a lawsuit after his naturalization oath ceremony was canceled earlier this year. He joined supporters Friday, April 3, 2026, on the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall to discuss his lawsuit.
