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   How Good A Citizen Are You?
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So how long have you been living in the United States? Maybe you don't live here at all and our system of government is of interest to you. If you don't live here and you want to immigrate to the United States there's a process for becoming what's called a 'Naturalized Citizen'. This process has gotten more complicated, expensive, and drawn out since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Issues of security and verification of those provided the privilege of citizenship has contributed to the complications of getting your green card and then subsequently your citizenship.

The United States government has a special department called the Immigration and Naturalization Service (aka: INS) that deals w/ all issues of immigration ... both legal and illegal. They administer the policies relating to legal citizenship status and the courses of action appropriate for specific cases.

In the Summer of 2007 the INS announced a modified form of the Citizenship test that's part of the process for becoming a Naturalized citizen of the United States. The new modifed questions for the test have been posted on the INS web site and take effect in Nov 2007.

I've taken the liberty to put this question list into an interactive on-line test that you yourself can take. If you're already a citizen it's just for fun ... but I'll warn you ... it could turn out to be a total embarrasment. If you're not yet a citizen and currently in the midst of the Naturalization process ... the test could be used for practice and improvement of your understanding our our system of government.

It's easy to play ... all you have to do is click the button below labeled "I'm Ready to be Tested" and you'll be provided w/ a popup window that will prompt you with ten (10) actual INS Citizenship Test questions. You can take the test as many times as you choose ... and each time it will include another set of 10 randomly selected questions from the pool of 100 total possible questions.

(Note: You may have to enable popup windows from this site to see the question popup. There are no 'unsolicited' popups on this site so it's safe to enable).

Each run of the test will contain ten (10) questions randomly selected from a one hundred (100) question pool. These are the actual questions used on the United States Immigration and Naturalization (INS) Department's Citizenship test. I've taken license to come up w/ my own (multiple) choice options ... but in all cases at least one of the correct (INS) answers is among the choices. A passing grade is a minimum of six (6) correct answers. Each run of the test on this site will produce another random 10 questions from the 100 question pool. All failed attempts are reported immediately to the Department of Immigration and Naturalization :-)
Other Immigration & Citizenship Info:
United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
This is the official U.S. Government site for the INS. Everything you'd ever want to know. One interesting thing I noticed while doing all this is that the Passports are handled by the State Department ... not the INS ... which seems a bit non-intuitive.
The 100 New Naturalized Citizenship Questions (PDF)
Here's the full list of the new 100 questions as a PDF. No cheating if you didn't take the test yet. A good reference if you're working toward this goal. This link is most likely to change and leave you hanging ... this is the government after all. If you can't find the file I have it. You can email me in the Contact Me section.
Credits:
United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
Final Notes:
Hopefully you do well on the test. It's really just for fun ... unless of course you're not yet a citizen and aren't fairing so well. If nothing else ... you've learned a little and maybe you're just a little better for it all.

Last Updated: 12/12/08
 
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