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- On September 17, 2025, the agency responsible for overseeing naturalization announced the return of the 2020 civics test format, which includes 128 questions and requires applicants to answer 20 questions during their interview.
- The reinstatement follows President Trump's 2020 update that increased questions from 100 to 128 and raised the test's difficulty to better assess applicants.
- The number of questions asked during the interview has increased from 10 to 20, and applicants are now required to correctly respond to at least 12 of them, compared to the previous standard of 6 correct answers out of 10. Additionally, some questions have been revised to demand more detailed and specific responses.
- USCIS spokesperson Matthew Tragesser highlighted that the recent updates mark the beginning of several forthcoming adjustments, underscoring the requirement for applicants to demonstrate English proficiency and lawful U.S. residency spanning three to five years.
- The changes aim to restore integrity to naturalization by enforcing robust vetting, stricter disability waiver reviews, and confirming applicants embrace U.S. values and principles.
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(CNN) – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will bring back the civics test for naturalization established by the Trump administration during its first term, making the process of obtaining U.S. citizenship more demanding. In a notice filed Wednesday with the Federal Register, USCIS said the citizenship test it will reinstate this year “meets the statutory requirement that aliens demonstrate knowledge and understanding…
Can you answer 20 questions from new US citizenship test?
(NEXSTAR) — As part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is expanding and altering its Naturalization Civics Test. Applicants have had to take a naturalization test in some form for at least a century, according to USCIS. For the last few years, the agency had been using the 2008 version of the citizenship test. The Biden administration switched to th…
Can you answer these new US Citizenship questions?
(NEXSTAR) — As part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is expanding and altering its Naturalization Civics Test. Applicants have had to take a naturalization test in some form for at least a century, according to USCIS. For the last few years, the…
Trump Admin Restores Tougher Citizenship Test Scrapped by Biden
The Trump administration is reviving a tougher version of the civics test that all prospective U.S. citizens must pass, as part of what officials describe as a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process. The changes, announced on Sept. 17, largely restore the naturalization civics test to a longer, tougher format implemented in late 2020, near the end of President Donald Trump’s first term. That version was discarded in 2021, shortly af…
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will reinstate the civics test for naturalization, which the Trump administration established during its first term.
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