Writing for Citizenship

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.  Be sure to use the words from the word list below.

1. What can you tell me about the Civil War?

2.  What can you tell me about Abraham Lincoln?

3. What can you tell me about the United States?

Word List

Adams, Lincoln, Washington, capital, citizens, Civil War, Congress, father of our country, flag, free, freedom of speech, laws, president, rights, senators, states, White House, Alaska, California, country, Washington, D.C., United States, February, May, June, July, September, October, November, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, can, come, do/does, elect, have/has, is/are/was/be, lives, makes, meets, pay, vote, want, a, and, during, for, here, in, of, on, our, the, they, to, we, blue, dollar bill, fifty/50, first, largest, most, north, one hundred/100, people, red, second, south, stripes, taxes, white.

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100 Questions

Study these questions for the Citizenship Interview. Study these questions if you apply for citizenship before October 1, 2008. If you apply after this time or are scheduled to take the test after October 1, 2009, regardless of when you applied, you will take the redesigned test with 142 questions. Click here to hear the 100 questions in podcast form.

Practice Sentences

Practice these sentences for the dictation part of the Citizenship Interview. Also, you can listen to many of the sentences here. Click on the word underlined.

Interviewer #22, Santa Ana, Ca

This interviewer was nice and very easy.  I was surprised at how quickly the interview went.  It was fast.  I knew all the answers to the 10 questions about history and government that I was asked.

-Zoila

Interviewer #25, Santa Ana, Ca

This interviewer was from Asia.  She is nice and friendly.  I thought the interview was easy.  I passed on July 9, 2007.  Study the N400 Application.  Most of the questions are personal questions related to the application.

-Ana

Interviewer #9, Santa Ana, Ca

July 2, 2007: Hurray, I passed.  The interviewer was a strict American woman.  The interview lasted about 15 minutes.

Interviewer #6, Santa Ana, Ca

I think his name is Bruce Ramos. The interview lasted about 20 minutes. It was challenging.

-Romeo

Interviewer #8, Santa Ana, Ca

Interviewer #8 is American and friendly. I thought the interview was easy.

-Alma