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Joni Mitchell is celebrating a long-awaited milestone!

On Tuesday (October 13), the 82-year-old Grammy-winning singer/songwriter announced that she has finally become an American citizen, more than six decades after she first started the process.

“A journey that began 62 years ago,” Joni wrote on Instagram along with a photo of herself smiling and waving a small American flag.

She also shared a short video of the moment her name was called, making her citizenship official.

Joni was born in Canada and traveled to the United States for the first time in 1965 with her former husband Chuck Mitchell and they lived in Detroit for several years.

After a brief stint in New York City, Joni moved to southern California in the late 1960s, where she still lives today.

In 2006, Joni told the Ottawa Observer that Los Angeles is her “workplace” while British Columbia, where she also owned property, is her “heartbeat.”

The “Big Yellow Taxi” singer returned to Canada for the first time in “many, many years” this past March the accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Juno Awards.

Earlier this year, Joni went viral for a cute moment at the 2026 Grammys!

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