On Friday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officially announced plans to implement a revised version of the naturalization civics test, after first announcing the plans to revise in July 2019. Lawful permanent residents seeking to become U.S. citizens will now be required to take a more difficult and longer citizenship test.
The new test increases the total number of questions from 100 to 128. Applicants will be verbally asked 20 questions and must answer at least 12 correctly, up from six out of 10.
Applicants who apply for naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will take the updated version of the test. Those who apply before Dec. 1, 2020, will take the current version of the test. USCIS will maintain the current guidelines for statutorily established special considerations for applicants who are 65 years old or older and have at least 20 years of lawful permanent resident status.