News Update - September 20, 2008

By Alan Lee, Esq.

Redesigned (New) Naturalization Test to be Administered October 1, 2008

The U.S.C.I.S. will begin administering its new naturalization test beginning on October 1, 2008. Those who have properly filed their Application for Naturalization, Form N-400, before October 1, 2008 and are scheduled for their naturalization interview prior to October 1, 2008, will take the current test. Those who have properly filed their Application for Naturalization, Form N-400, before October 1, 2008 and are scheduled for their naturalization interview on or after October 1, 2008 but before October 1, 2009, can chose between the current or new test. Those who properly file their Application for Naturalization, Form N-400, after October 1, 2008, will take the new test. The Form N-400 is properly filed on the date it is received by the appropriate U.S.C.I.S. office if it is filled out according to the instructions and includes a signature and the correct fee. Any applicant that fails the English and/or civics portion of the test will retake the same test regardless of the date in which the retest is scheduled.


The author is a 26+ year practitioner of immigration law based in New York City. He was awarded the Sidney A. Levine prize for best legal writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1977 and has written extensively on immigration over the past years for the ethnic newspapers, World Journal, Sing Tao, Pakistan Calling, Muhasha and OCS. He has testified as an expert on immigration in civil court proceedings and was recognized by the Taiwan government in 1985 for his work protecting human rights. His article, "The Bush Temporary Worker Proposal and Comparative Pending Legislation: an Analysis" was Interpreter Releases' cover display article at the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual conference in 2004, and his victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression nationwide, Firstland International v. INS, successfully challenged INS' policy of over 40 years of revoking approved immigrant visa petitions under a nebulous standard of proof. Its value as precedent, however, was short-lived as it was specifically targeted by the Administration in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004.

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