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

Even with Trump’s attempt to make it harder, the exam still requires a 60% passing grade and remains a poor measure of an applicant’s “Americanness." ...

The 2025 US Citizenship Civics Test has been officially announced, requiring green card holders and foreign nationals applying for naturalization to answer updated questions about American history, ...

Citizenship applicants will be asked up to 20 randomly selected questions out of 128 as part of the 2025 Naturalization Civics Test; you can test your knowledge with our modified quiz.

The Trump administration has been routinely targeting legal pathways to citizenship, including giving officials broader discretion to deny naturalization on vague grounds such as “anti-American” views ...

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

The Trump administration said the more complex test is the “first of many” changes to acquiring U.S. citizenship.

The 2025 Naturalization Civics Test will start to be administered on Oct. 20, coming with 128 potential questions for people to answer before becoming a U.S. citizen. According to the U.S. Citizenship ...

From October 20, 2025, US green card holders must pass a tougher 20-question civics test to qualify for citizenship under new USCIS rules ...

Green card holders rely on citizenship classes to prepare for the naturalization exam. Upcoming changes will make it harder to pass.