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Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has yet to renounce his birth country’s citizenship as promised — but a spokeswoman said Saturday the conservative tea party favourite plans to finish the process soon.

Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the junior senator from Texas, said lawyers are preparing the necessary paperwork.

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The 43-year-old Cruz “has been fully focused on fighting for Texans’ values and interests in the Senate for the last year,” Frazier said via email. “He looks forward to the process being completed soon.”

Cruz hasn’t even been in office for a year, but already helped spark the budget fight over funding President Barack Obama’s health care law that led to a partial government shutdown in October, and is being mentioned as a possible 2016 Republican presidential contender.

Frazier’s response comes after Canadian immigration attorney Richard Kurland suggested Friday that the process was relatively simple and quick. Kurland wondered what was taking Cruz so long.