Hi, I'm Anne McDowell. I'm a citizenship teacher. Welcome to our program. This video will help you pass your interview for citizenship with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) or CIS. All of the people in this program are community volunteers, our students and staff from the Salinas Adult School and the Pacific Grove Adult School who have volunteered their time. Some of their names and personal information have been changed to protect their privacy and to help make the video easy to understand. The CIS citizenship interview usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Most of the questions you will be asked are taken from the 10-page N400 citizenship application form that you mailed in. You should keep a copy, take it to your citizenship class, and study it carefully. The reason that CIS asks so many personal questions is first to make sure you meet all of the eligibility requirements, second to see if you can understand and speak basic English, third to find out if there are any changes since you mailed your citizenship application, and fourth to see if you are telling the truth. Additionally, you will be asked ten questions from the CIS list of 100 history and government questions. You must answer at least six correctly. If you mailed your N400 application before October 1st of 2008, you may choose to have questions from the old list of 96 government and history questions or from the new list of 100 questions. If you mailed your application after October 1st of 2008, you'll be questioned from the new list. You may be asked to read one or more sentences or questions in English. Finally, you'll be asked to write one or two sentences of dictation. In many CIS offices, you are asked personal...
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Video instructions and help with filling out and completing Form 8854 Citizenship
