U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made changes to the naturalization civics test that will make it more challenging for immigrants to obtain their U.S. citizenship. The changes are ...

The Trump administration has made a portion of the certification process for US citizenship considerably more challenging. New regulations will impact applicants who filed their applications on or ...

Naturalization applicants now must memorize 128 questions and hope to get 12 out of 20 correct under a new U.S. citizenship test that will replace one that required they score of six out of 10 ...

This Monday, the federal government rolled out a new civics test for green card holders applying for U.S. citizenship—an exam that critics have said is needlessly more complex than its predecessor.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Sept. 17 the implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test as one of its many stricter naturalization policies, such as evaluations of good ...

Elmi Mahamoud, 49, of St. Paul, teaches immigrants at Literacy Minnesota in preparation for their citizenship test. Mahamoud, pictured on Sept. 15, 2025, is an immigrant from Djibouti, Africa, and was ...

Immigration attorneys on Long Island report that their clients have recently had U.S. citizenship and green card interviews canceled without explanation. One of those cases involves a man who has been ...

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That's how Melissa Michelson starts her class at Pasadena City College each semester. And as her course preparing immigrants for the naturalization test opens this week, it's what she'll ask again.