Starting in December, immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens will have to correctly answer at least 12 of 20 questions on American civics.
Immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens will soon be required to answer more questions about American history and politics as part of a revised civics test announced Friday by the U.S. immigration services agency.
For the updated civics test, immigrants will be instructed to study a collection of 128 potential questions on topics ranging from the structure of the U.S. government and the Constitution, to the founding fathers and wars with American involvement. The current pool consists of 100 questions, some of which were tweaked through the changes announced Friday.
The U.S. Constitution established three branches of government: The executive branch, or the president; the legislative branch, or Congress; and the judicial branch, or federal courts.Story continuesThe correct answers, according to USCIS, will be:"It decides who is elected president" or"It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.
Doug Rand, a former immigration adviser to President Obama, agreed that Friday's changes make the civics test"harder" "Naturalization allows immigrants to become fully vested members of American society, with the same rights and responsibilities as citizens by birth, and offering a fair test, which prepares naturalization applicants for these responsibilities, is of upmost importance to our agency," Edlow said in a statement Friday.