New York, Aug 10 :  British actress Rachel Weisz, who got US citizenship last year, is excited about the fact that she can now vote in the US.

She lives here with husband Daniel Craig and her six-year-old son Henry.

"I applied for citizenship because I thought I would go back to England for a while and lose my green card. I am not going back now, but being a citizen means I can vote here, which is exciting; not just being an outsider," contactmusic.com quoted Weisz as saying.

"When I come back into the country now and they stamp my passport, they say, 'Welcome home ma'am'. I think that's a lovely formality. No one in England would ever say that," added the 42-year-old.

While she is happy living in the US, she misses her friends back home.

"I still have a place in London and love spending time there. I miss my friends who I grew up with, my girls. It's a different relationship," she said.

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