Starting next month, a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will require applicants to answer twice as many questions as the current one.
Immigration and naturalization experts say the revamped test, which raises the number of questions to 20 from 10, could limit the number of tests done each day and slow down the process.
However, test-takers will have to answer only 12 questions correctly to pass, the same pass rate as the old test. “These changes reduce the efficiency of this already struggling agency,” Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, said, referring to its citizenship application backlog. “The administration is adding hundreds of thousands of more minutes to these.
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