Mom passed US citizen interview, but DAD failed

[Crazy Cat 39,575]

21 hours ago, Florida012 said:

So his only hope I guess it's if  my mother  filed a new n400 though marriage, instead of me, now that she is a new US citizen

People file THEIR own N-400.  No one files it for them.

 

 

[Adujarric 67]

2 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

People file THEIR own N-400.  No one files it for them.

 

 

Im just assuming he thought that because he filled out the application for his parents they were getting US citizenship through him. I myself have to do everything for my parents to this day.  

 

 

Edited August 5, 2022 by Adujarric
Deleting emoji

[Family 3,549]

3 minutes ago, Adujarric said:

I myself have to do everything for my parents to this day.  

 

You are a magnificent child! 
Love, Your long lost other mother. Call me 

[Chris&Ale 153]

On 8/5/2022 at 8:47 AM, Florida012 said:

Thanks everybody for your replies. You guys help me a lot, and helped me with many solutions. Now I know what to do.

If I may give my two cents' worth of advice... learning English can be very hard, especially for older folks. HOWEVER, to pass the English writing, reading, and civics portions of the exam, one only needs to know and understand the words listed on the USCIS reading and writing study guides as well as memorizing the 100 Civics questions and answers. Learning the couple of dozen words USCIS has listed to know for the exam is a lot less of a lift than becoming fluent in English. 

 

If you haven't already, I'd recommend enrolling your dad in a local citizenship test prep program with live instructors as well as buying some flash cards for both the reading/writing and civics portions. I would also do some mockup interviews to help him get used to reading and writing words from the USCIS study guides. I used to be a director over a citizenship test prep program and would regularly see folks in their 70s and 80s enroll into the program. After studying the key terms and questions a few weeks, they all passed. Good luck!! 😀

Edited August 8, 2022 by Chris&Ale

[SusieQQQ 11,585]

4 hours ago, Chris&Ale said:

If I may give my two cents' worth of advice... learning English can be very hard, especially for older folks. HOWEVER, to pass the English writing, reading, and civics portions of the exam, one only needs to know and understand the words listed on the USCIS reading and writing study guides as well as memorizing the 100 Civics questions and answers. Learning the couple of dozen words USCIS has listed to know for the exam is a lot less of a lift than becoming fluent in English. 

 

If you haven't already, I'd recommend enrolling your dad in a local citizenship test prep program with live instructors as well as buying some flash cards for both the reading/writing and civics portions. I would also do some mockup interviews to help him get used to reading and writing words from the USCIS study guides. I used to be a director over a citizenship test prep program and would regularly see folks in their 70s and 80s enroll into the program. After studying the key terms and questions a few weeks, they all passed. Good luck!! 😀

You seem to have left out that there is a spoken test too. (The reading and writing is only one sentence each.)  The bulk of the spoken test is actually the discussion about the answers in the form. And we’ve seen people here before fail the English test despite passing civics for this reason. Definitely, he should enroll in a local civics/ESL for citizenship course, but part of the test prep should also be going through the n400 form and dad’s answers, ensuring he understands the questions when repeated to him verbally and that he can discuss anything around them that might need to be discussed.