President Donald Trump administration is revising the civic test immigrants must pass to become us citizens, and immigration servic...
The agency dis not say exactly what changes will be made to the test which quizzes immigrants on informations about the history of the United States and its government.
A new test will be introduced this fall and will be implemented before the end of President Donald Trumps first term.
"Granting U.S citizenship is the highest honour our nation bestows 'Ken Cuccinelli US IS acting director said in a statement. " updating, maintaining, and improving a test that is current and relevant is our responsibility as an agency. In order to help potential new citizens fully understand the meaning of US citizenship and the values that United all Americans.
The civic rest consists of 10 questions chosen from a list of 100.An applicant for naturalization must answer 6 correctly to pass..According to latest USCIS data, the agency naturalized about 757,000 people last year.
The civic test revision is likely to come under scrutiny from lawyers and advocate who are wary of trumps administrations immigration policies. President Trump has proposed a reshuffling of the United States immigration system which will only favour highly skilled workers, and he has enacted a restrictive new asylum rule barring most migrants from claiming asylum and has reduced the number of refugees the United States takes in every year..
