US EditionTrump administration aims to make US citizenship test more difficult
USCIS Director Joseph Edlow announced plans to increase the citizenship test difficulty and expand fraud investigations by hiring special agents to address mass scale immigration fraud.
- The Trump administration is planning to make the U.S. citizenship test more difficult, with the USCIS director saying the current test is "just too easy."
- Edlow said the test needs to be more "thought-provoking," and applicants may be required to write an essay on what becoming an American means to them.
- These proposed changes are part of the Trump administration's efforts to bear down on the U.S. immigration system further during the president's second term.
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September 4, 2025 – Washington – EFE. President Donald Trump’s government proposed to tighten the process to become a U.S. citizen, arguing that the current exam is too simple. This measure seeks to strengthen the government’s narrative on alleged fraud in the immigration system. Joseph Edlow, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, argued that the exam format should be more stringent. His goal is to more effectively evaluate applicant…
The administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, considered this Thursday that the citizenship examination must be made more difficult, raising the approval criteria, adding a test component and reversing relaxed policies, in its effort to strengthen its discourse of alleged immigration fraud.
US Citizenship Test to Become Harder, Says USCIS Director
WASHINGTON—The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, on Sept. 4, announced that his agency would be increasing the difficulty of the current test for immigrants to be naturalized as citizens of the United States. Director Joseph B. Edlow made the announcement at an event hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that seeks to lower the admissions of immigrants to the United States. He said that the current test—which…
‘Too Easy’: Trump Admin Wants to Make the U.S. Citizenship Test More Challenging
A top Trump administration official said on Thursday that he is working to make the U.S. citizenship test more difficult, saying the current version is “just too easy.”Speaking at an event in Washington on Thursday hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank, Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, argued that the test allows for people to be “coached” through the immigration process w…
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