Citizenship applicants will be asked up to 20 randomly selected questions out of 128 as part of the 2025 Naturalization ...

The U.S. government is adding more questions to the civics test that applicants need to pass to become American citizens.

The U.S. is rolling out a new, tougher citizenship test in 2025. More questions, stricter reviews and higher stakes. Are you ready?

Two centuries ago, the exam didn’t even exist. Under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1802, citizenship merely required ...

On September 18, 2025, USCIS published a final notice confirming the implementation of the updated test. Beginning October 20 ...

Currently, 88% of citizenship test-takers pass on their first try. Even if the Trump-era changes reduced that rate, it’s ...

New citizenship test largely mirrors the 2020 civics test the Trump administration implemented, but some answers are now more ...

The Trump administration said the more complex test is the “first of many” changes to acquiring U.S. citizenship. By Jenny Gross The U.S. government will reinstate a harder citizenship test that ...

The Trump administration moved again Wednesday to make it harder to gain U.S. citizenship, announcing a slate of changes to ...

UTEP students responded to some questions. See below how they did. The Woodrow Wilson Institute found that just one in three Americans could pass a citizenship exam, and less than a third of Americans ...

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 attem ...