The Trump administration has been targeting legal pathways to citizenship, including giving officials broader discretion to deny naturalization on vague grounds such as “anti-American” views and ...

USCIS implements 2025 Naturalization Civics Test for N-400 filings on Oct. 20, 2025. Test expands question bank to 128 and raises pass mark to 12 correct answers. Applicants filing before Oct. 20 keep ...

Johanne, a Haitian social worker, has lived in the United States for nearly 30 years, but as she prepares for her upcoming citizenship test, she says the process feels more daunting than ever. “I just ...

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 ...

Immigration raids and resistance against them are dominating national politics. That reminded me of a series of studies on citizenship. These struck me as an important reminder of how practical and ...

The Trump administration is making changes to the U.S. citizenship test and reimplementing updates made to the test during the president’s first term, but which the Biden administration scrapped. The ...

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