qualify yrself fer u.s. citizenship

47

34. Canadian.

56

shit i think that means you have to be a senator in the new order, i'm not sure though, i didn't get a 56

49

44. i fucked up my famous document quotations.

Your Citizenship Score:39
Citizenship attained.

I think I've been to the US for a total of two weeks, so happy enough.

32. Not an American. Got all the references right at least

19 :/ guess i won't be getting my passport

i got all the questions right but do not contribute to the health of my community in any of the following ways: 52

I got a 36. Considering I went to public school in the South, I think that's pretty damn good.

The "how do you contribute to the health of your community" bit threw me off. Where's the tickbox for "buying things/paying sales tax"?

49

43

45 and im not even american wtf

We have the advantage of forced voting here. I wonder if that helps the score?

a while ago i took an online test to determine my eligibility for immigration to canada -- i can't find it now tho. i could just pass if i overstated my knowledge of french/someone offered me a job. maybe if i had skills or something

i guessed a LOT of the match up stuff but some of it seemed... i dunno, obvious educated guesses tbh.

you can learn a lot of american civics from the simpsons iirc

43, but I lied about my philanthropy....

I got all the match-up stuff, missed two of the buildings and most of the Justices.

I popped out here. They wrote it down and saved the papers at the courthouse.

(**does the Happy Citizenship Dance!**)

54.

50

what's the 'distinction' you all got? are you like mega-citizens now?

added to no-kill list

i used to teach citizenship classes (right at the moment they changed the test) and i developed a game show type slide show to practice the questions. It's available upon request (assuming I can find it)

in the Arizona version, contestants have to stop and show the host identification every ten minutes.

45.

62. bfd.

^^ it's because I voted in every election: primaries, general and special, for decades now and I do campaign phone banking most general elections. But that question had no place in a test for prospective citizens, because they can't vote. I don't consider my charitable donations to be philanthropy, so i suppose I could have scored a bit higher.

i have taken the actual citizenship test. these questions are considerably harder.

aimless, i think the idea might have been to measure your civicmindedness no matter where you were coming from? ruff on stateless applicants i guess

just fyi -- lots of info about the actual test/policies available direct from the source:
http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartE.html

the test was changed substantially in 2006 iirc? i think it was the summer of 2006 that i taught that class, i can't remember exactly -- but we were riiiiight between the two tests, and i had to revise the materials substantially in order to prepare the students for the new test, which is the one they would be eligible to take. all of the textbooks/materials the school had were obsolete.

i also taught a general civics education course that was part of a pilot project. a complete failure, but it was a mess to begin with. anyway, i kinda work in this field in a tangential way and people's opinions about civic responsibility interest me, in general. the end.

60. Similar reasons to Aimless plus I know my Supremes.

49. i screwed up the faces/names of some justices.

yeah the test changed in 2008. There are 100 possible questions. You get asked ten and have to get six right:

US Citizenship Interview Test Questions

why the sudden interest in it now?

43. i answered all of the questions correctly but this was still my score.

why the sudden interest in it now?

Immigration bills in congress is my guess.

68. but i feel like i'm getting unfair credits because we have municipal elections in odd-numbered years so i vote a lot.

i have some teaching materials produced by the us gov intended to inform/educate immigrants about the census
it's pretty interesting, i think, but no one has ever paid a lot of attention to this sort of education in the past
that's why i was wondering

52.

wowed by all the politically active, philanthropic volunteers that I rub shoulders with every day...

36

Basically if you are a white dude on the Supreme Court and not heart attack Scalia, to me, you are a cipher.

Also a lot of *drinky drinky motion with hand*

hey you made it dude, you're set for life

not sure whether i got breyer and kennedy right, didn't bother checking

breyer vs kennedy is a piece of cake

yeah i just guessed on those

(& got them right, that is)

50 and I've only been to the US once!

43 and i've never been and i shd still be in bed

23 (UK ILXor)

I set all the Supreme Court justices to Clarence Thomas and all the reference matching question I didn't know to '1984 Ronald Reagan ad campaign'.

i ran out of supreme court justices (i.e. more people than names), and then it lost my score because i have noscript running but i think it might have been 12

30 (britisher, no good on supreme justices or recognising the alamo). i don't feel like i deserve the citizenship i could, according to this online test, attain.

I recognised the Alamo, but only because it was the building Ozzy urinated on.

'Is this building a public toilet? Yes/No'

22, a UK citizen.

got a 46 but skipped the bio questions, are those on the actual test? can't you just lie?

yeah you get 46 points if you just say you check all of those boxes and say you voted 20 times, kind of silly

yeah i figured my score wd be mega if i did charity work or participated in the meaningless charade of democracy

47, a dirty Brit

If you get less than 10, you are disappeared and a letter is sent to your family explaining that you went to the restroom in the middle of the test and didn't return.

65. I cleaned up on local elections, too. Think the only possible points I missed were for military or civil service. Oh, and volunteering. I used to be a Big Brother, but it's been ages.

48, i got all of the trivia questions right but rarely vote

I interpreted volunteering to mean "I've done shit that was boring for free within the last year"

My polling place is two blocks from our apartment and in a bookstore (and before that also two blocks away but in a synagogue I think) so I think I've missed maybe one election (local, state, or national) in eight years (and only one presidential election since I turned 18, which was Bush/Gore 2000 about which I can only say ;_;). I love voting, particularly in local elections. One day we'll vote these bums out of office and I'll feel like I was a part of it.

58, Breyer, Alito and Kennedy were my downfall.

skipped the bio questions, are those on the actual test?

no. aside from the test questions linked upthread you have to show that you have been a good citizen by providing evidence that you haven't committed any crimes and have always paid taxes.

How do you prove you haven't committed crimes?

Can't believe no one is interested in my citizenship game show or civics materials. Shocked!

One of the most challenging things about the classes were that they were levels 2-6 (higher levels not eligible bc the classes weren't usually necessary) so some people could barely utter a complete sentence in English while others were wondering why I was making them role play an emergency 911 call.

Does this sound like good times or what?!

what were the prizes

The golden ring of citizenship obvs.

xxxp your fingerprints are taken and submitted to the fbi.

71, i am the best american here

u may all call me president m bison but that is a formality bc i plan on making this a gov by militaristic junta anyway, UR WELCOME AMERICA

ive never been in the united states but i got every question right except i mixed up the gettysburg address & declaration of independence quotes & got the flag year wrong

correctly guessing alito/breyer/kennedy involved guessing which ones looked vaguely italian/german/irish

there should be an equivalent Britishes one ... i wonder how many of us Americans would do as well on that as certain Brits have done on this poll.

the Britishes ones should be chockful of nothing but obscure Carry On references, of course.

there's a thread with the Britishes one on SNA and we all failed it

needs questions on tipping

43, vs 54% on the UK, one, sadly good enough to be a US citizen but not a British one.

44. i mixed up breyer and kennedy

One of the most challenging things about the classes were that they were levels 2-6 (higher levels not eligible bc the classes weren't usually necessary) so some people could barely utter a complete sentence in English while others were wondering why I was making them role play an emergency 911 call.

Does this sound like good times or what?!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, June 23, 2013 1:46 PM (4 hours ago)

For real, though, I think it does.
Scored 46 points. Though if I'd have known it was 2 points for peaceful petition and writing criticism of government leaders, hell yeah I would've checked those.

54.

I recognised the Alamo, but only because it was the building Ozzy urinated on.

Should earn you extra points, imo.

haha, thanks crabbits! it was a pretty fun class. we did all kinds of weird stuff. i got a full time job right after that semester was over, but i have fond memories of explaining the differences between local, state, and federal governments (among other things).

56. Going back to check just exactly what mistakes were made.

... i wonder how many of us Americans would do as well on that as certain Brits have done on this poll.

their newspaper columnists talk about our politics, they watch our tv shows, that's already 9/10 of what makes americans know anything about u.s. citizenship

23 - got the buildings and the law peeps, but not much else. Will have to stay in Belgium I guess.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://www.bbc.com/news/35383435

this is absolutely bonkers

Huh. Never heard of this before. I er know of someone who's lived in the UK for 12 years and has never filed a US tax return in that time. They have a building society account rather than bank. Not sure if that makes any difference.

i vaguely remember an american colleague filing her us taxes in canada years ago, but i didn't know the exact details. this man in a suit with a briefcase would show up at random times. "he's the irs man!" she exclaimed. he would come by every year to remind her that she had to submit her paperwork. like something out of a kafka story

I have a U.S.-born U.K. facebook friend who brings this up every year around tax time. It's been giving her hell apparently.

this is absolutely bonkers

what does the US and Eritrea have in common

A law that actually got passed following the 2010 elections is a fucking grease fire creating "unintended" consequences for ordinary working American citizens.

Wow, etc.

kids

papa infinity got his interview scheduled

if all goes well, soon i'lll be a proud american my babies

will post the q&a i'm supposed to study soon

will you be renouncing loyalty to hexylvania

will tone down the shenanigans eat lots of burgers and pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all

you didn't answer the question

flag'm!

A hacker should break into the server and replace that picture of Scalia with a rotting corpse.

whats the supreme law of the land

here's some good polls to brush up on

U.S. Code Titles THE POLL

US Government Publishing Office Bestsellers: The Poll

good luck ∞ !!!

Why the fuck would you board the Titanic now?

the more the merrier dude, pass it already

whats the supreme law of the land

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, May 8, 2017 9:34 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fyi the constitution yo

good luck ∞ !!!

― schlump, Monday, May 8, 2017 7:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you!

tom those are good links

i received a citizenship booklet with 100 questions and answers

it says i'll be asked 10 of those randomly but i've talked to five people that have had very different interviewing experiences (two didn't even get asked questions -- HUH)

what does the constitution do

I took it twice in two different browsers and it resets all the answers and doesn't give me a score. HOW WILL I EVER KNOW IF I'M A CITIZEN NOW?!??

it's old enough the original site doesn't work anymore

on the bright side, no one ever needs identify scalia again

it says i'll be asked 10 of those randomly but i've talked to five people that have had very different interviewing experiences (two didn't even get asked questions -- HUH)

My wife wasn't asked any questions when she went in. They just swore everybody in her group in. That was many years ago, though. Under Trump they'll probably ask you something in Spanish, and if you understand, you get deported to Mexico (no matter your actual country of origin).

the constitution is this thing you can use in order to carry a gun into public places so you can protect everyone if and when there is a shootout.

it's interesting how the book (provided by us department of homeland security) sets you up to become/side with republicans

been reading a lot about people's experiences from when they naturalized in the past few months and everyone says it's super easy

spoke with this mexican fella and he had been using 5 different names, was deported once, and had outstanding fines (forget for what), and according to him, they didn't ask him any questions

they asked if he had other names he went by and if he was ever deported, he said yes to all of it, and the officer offered him citizenship

what does the constitution do

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 9:43 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sets up gov't
defines gov't
protects basic rights of americans

extreme vetting

Back in the day when I had a top secret government clearance, the advice I was given was to be utterly transparent and not lie about anything; the main concern wasn't, for example, whether you had smoked pot in college, but whether smoking pot in college was something you were trying to hide and could be used against you by someone attempting to blackmail you. I assume it's similar for the citizenship test; clearly just being a citizen doesn't automatically put you near sensitive information but it's a pathway that could end up near sensitive information and they are looking to see if the people getting it are obviously susceptible to pressure from outside forces based on what they are willing to reveal and what they are trying to hide.

i remember waiting to be interviewed sitting next to a pakistani guy and an indian guy, we were trying to figure out how it worked. some people went through one door & never came out. others came out the same door with more paperwork. we were all still v fearful of being sent home or whatever & the questions we asked each other about what we thought was happening were slightly comedic
it's like some pearly gates shit in those rooms

i got asked 5 of the easiest questions which was fine but i was kinda mad, like wtf did i study for, i could have answered those
and i came back into the waiting room and was told to wait some more

then me and 4 other ppl were led to another door off the waiting room, into what looked like a broom closet. they had milk crates stackedup as a kind of makeshift podium/desk for the INS guy, american flag loosely arranged on the wall behind him & we stood shoulder to shoulder on a rubber mat and he swore us in. we recited the oath & we were done
we were like *blink*
that's it?

it was weird

but i cried when i left because i was SO happy to never have to go in that awful building again

congrats veg

hoping mine goes as smooth as yours

good luck!! mine was like 8 or 9 years ago :)

thx :s

https://youtu.be/0cvW_2uIBQs

i used to teach citizenship classes to help people get ready for the test. when they changed the test, i had to redo all of my materials but it was pretty fun. i didn't mind.

I'm officially a US citizen

did you have to go to a ceremony?

Yes

how was it? when i had mine it was quite a touching event.

something i wrote for someone back then:

I went to the naturalization ceremony where my citizenship became official. It was held at a theater downtown. When I got there I was shown to a seat near the front with my fellow citizens-to-be. There was marching music playing and right after I sat down the tune used for the theme of Monty Python started. Weird. I had an hour to wait before the ceremony started proper. People were still showing up during that time. The crowd was made up mostly of older people -- 40s/50s/60s -- and I was in a white minority. The ceremony was presided over by a judge who was from Mexico originally and had himself become a citizen 40 years ago. There was a class of kids on the stage who sang a couple of patriotic songs. A few of the kids read short essays on what was great about America. One kids mentioned freedom of religion, how there are "Christians, Hindus, Muslims ... and EVEN Jewish people." Another said how her mom was from Norway and who said Norway was beautiful but that she "liked having freedom." I had to suppress laughter. We all had to stand and pledge the oath of allegiance. Then the judge read out some numbers, how many of us were there, how many were from certain countries (the most: Mexico, then Brazil and Pakistan). He had people raise their hand if they wanted to say something. He'd ask them where they were from, how long it took them to go through the process, what it meant to them, etc. Becoming a citizen is just paperwork for someone like me but for some of these people it's obviously a huge deal and what some of them had to say was quite touching. There was a lot of happy people there, the whole ceremony has the air of a celebration. And that was it. I was given my naturalization certificate as I left.

It was interesting!

It was a little bittersweet but I have dual citizenship now so it's okay

Yes, I was probably one of few white people there. Nobody shared stories. They read what countries were represented the most; in order, the top 5: Mexico, Philippines, China, Guatemala, El Salvador (I don't remember exactly the last two countries)

It was touching to see so many immigrants who had gone through a lot to become a citizen. Even though the judge said we did it the hard way, I still thought I had it pretty easy, despite my interview being extremely shocking to me. The judge also said we value most what we work hard for. I think I can agree with that

How long ago was yours?

mine was in 2010. i'm curious... at mine we were shown a video of obama welcoming us to the country. is there a similar trump video?

and forgive me if i missed this upthread... shocking interview?

I was looking for this, as well

I moved to the US in 2011 and, at least in Los Angeles, I saw Obama's picture in a lot of places. After Trump was elected, Obama's pictures were taken down and have not been replaced with anything

So, no, I saw (and see) no trace of Trump, which makes sense in a state like California

We were shown a video of monuments and pictures of immigrants since the country first gained independence

welcome to hell