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Focus shifts in new citizen test questions - The Boston Globe (923 words) |
 | The shift in emphasis is occurring after years of complaints that the exam tested trivia, rather than prompting prospective citizens to understand the nation's shared identity, and that it was administered unfairly, with applicants in some cities receiving harder tests. |
| Green-card holders, also known as legal permanent residents, are allowed to take the citizenship test after living five years in the United States, or after three years if they are married to an American or serving in the military. |
| Chris Rhatigan, a spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, said cities were chosen for the pilot study at random to reflect a representative sample of busy and quiet offices and all regions. |
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Dual Citizenship FAQ (1296 words) |
| Automatic citizenship via marriage is rare nowadays; more commonly, marriage may allow one spouse a "fast track" to immigration to the other spouse's country, but a period of non-citizen permanent residence would still be required before the immigrant spouse could obtain a new citizenship via naturalization. |
| Where one country requires a citizen to renounce the citizenship of another country, this renunciation may or may not be acknowledged or accepted by the other country. |
| Citizenship claims by a country over a given individual could happen even if the person in question never sought recognition as a citizen of that country -- or even if the person was totally unaware that he/she was a citizen of that country according to its laws. |
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