Speaker A
On October first, USCIS began using digital tablets to administer the English reading and writing tests during naturalization interviews.
USCIS now uses digital tablets and styluses to administer the English reading and writing naturalization tests, while the civics test remains verbal.
Key Takeaways
- USCIS is modernizing naturalization interviews by moving the English reading and writing tests onto digital tablets.
- The change affects the format of the test, not its eligibility criteria or content.
- Paper testing remains available in some cases, decided case by case.
- Applicants will receive instructions from ISOs before using the tablets.
What the video covers
- Starting October 1, USCIS began using digital tablets to administer the English reading and writing tests during naturalization interviews.
- Applicants already used tablets to sign or verify parts of their applications; this change expands tablet use to more of the process.
- Immigration services officers (ISOs) will instruct applicants on how to use the tablets before the tests are administered.
- USCIS will continue using the paper process on a case-by-case basis.
- Eligibility requirements and test subject matter have not changed.
- Applicants use a stylus on a digital tablet instead of writing on a paper form for the writing test.
- For the writing test, several lines appear on the tablet to replicate a blank sheet of paper.
- The civics test is still taken verbally, without the tablet.
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Speaker A
Although you already use digital tablets to sign or verify parts of your applications this new approach expands the use of tablets allowing you to use the device for more parts of the application process.
Speaker A
Although you already use digital tablets to sign or verify parts of your applications, this new approach expands the use of tablets, allowing you to use the device for more parts of the application process.
Speaker A
Our immigration services officers ISO's will carefully instruct you had to use the tablets before administering the tests.
Speaker A
We will continue to use the paper process on a case-by-case basis. While the eligibility requirements and the subject material of the naturalization test have not changed, you now use a stylus on a digital tablet instead of a paper application.
Speaker A
For the writing test several lines will appear on the tablet replicating the appearance of a piece of blank paper.
Speaker A
Our immigration services officers (ISOs) will carefully instruct you on how to use the tablets before administering the tests.
Speaker A
You will still take the civics test verbally without the tablet.
Topics:USCISnaturalizationdigital tabletEnglish reading testEnglish writing testcivics teststyluscitizenship interviewimmigration
