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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 ...

“Why do you want to become a U.S. citizen?” That's how Melissa Michelson starts her class at Pasadena City College each semester. And as her course preparing immigrants for the naturalization test ...

A longer and tougher version of the U.S. citizenship test has officially taken effect, adding new hurdles for immigrants hoping to become American citizens. As the updated exam rolls out, local and ...

The Trump administration is making it harder to pass the oral exam required for immigrants seeking naturalization as U.S. citizens. The new test is also longer. Green card holders who file for ...

An immigrant studies to take a U.S. citizenship exam in Connecticut on March 29, 2025. Credit - John Moore—Getty Images Becoming an American may have just become more difficult. U.S. green card ...

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

The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are... The test for U.S. citizenship is about to get harder The ...