Babu Frik

were you also living in marital union for 3 years prior to the 90 days?

well having someone else write your essay won't qualify for being a "good citizen"

Whoops autocomplete typo, *depends

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/trump-administration-citizenship-test-00544390 The Trump administration, in its second term, plans to make the U.S. citizenship test more difficult. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director, Joseph Edlow, stated that the current test is "just too easy" and that applicants can be "coached" on how to pass. The proposed changes include making the test more "thought-provoking" and potentially requiring applicants to write an essay about what becoming an American means to them. The current test requires applicants to correctly answer 6 out of 10 questions from a list of 100, and also to have basic English skills. The new test would be expanded to 20 questions, with applicants needing to answer 12 correctly. These changes are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten the U.S. immigration system, which also includes expanding USCIS's law enforcement capabilities to combat fraud and resuming practices like interviewing immigration applicants' coworkers and neighbors.

Yes you can, whether it's an issue for marital union or not really friends on the officer

yeah I saw people saying they're waiting up to 7 months for oath ceremony we might get a denial for applying too early, but at least it puts us closer to reapplying.

Interview scheduled for October 15th

That's not proof, someone who purposely did it could also make the same argument.

I've seen posts where the DMV have signed people up for voting automatically when they didn't request it.

They tried to allow non citizens to vote in NYC 🤦‍♂️ Not sure if that would've applied here though or just federal. New York City Can’t Allow Noncitizens to Vote, Top State Court Rules - The New York Times https://share.google/wmfUxEpa7CipjKSNc

Forgot to mention, this was just updated yesterday.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250829-VoterRegistrationGMC.pdf Some key points - green card holders who voted or attempted to vote at blocked from citizenship - deportation can be initiated for any green card holder who committed voter fraud or claimed us citizenship to receive a benefit. I imagine people who got accidentally registered will be freaking out.

If you don't even have an interview date yet, this sounds like it's still months till you're a citizen, unless you're working remotely, this could be a problem.

you can also upload unsolicited evidence

I think part of the plan is to slow things down, so they could be sending people out there just for that.

damm, I'm guessing the mailman reported something

this news just broke yesterday, so I expect in the future we might have some lawyers comment on it to give some more guidance. You can upload additional evidence after so this shouldn't hold you up, it'll be a while before they look at everything.

most of my neighbors keep to themselves, I don't know what they'd have to say unless like you said we've complained about them.

that's true, the people stay within their communities, you'll find people here for decades and barely speak english they're also good at gaming the system, working off the books and then getting public assistance

probably just harder if you're an introvert 😄 I agree though, the process if pretty easy, actually extremely easy compared to other countries. I often see a lot of entitlement to the processes here. The downside is that this can increase processing time.

It's normal that it takes long unfortunately, and I don't think you can speed it up, that's why we just decided to wait, although the chances seem less than 50/50 for us now. The only upside being we won't have to wait for biometrics next time. I haven't tried, but I had heard that if you try to submit another application online it doesn't let you if there's one active. I think you're doing the right thing though. Here's the one video I saw about withdrawing. You can do the withdrawal through your account online though.

Check the CBS link, it's more clear on that last part.

Some more links https://www.cbsnews.com/news/neighborhood-checks-citizenship-applications/ https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizenship-naturalization-application-change-neighborhood-checks-2119748 https://natlawreview.com/article/uscis-expands-good-moral-character-standards-naturalization

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/trump-neighborhood-checks-citizenship-applicants-00527680

I'm in the same boat, ultimately we decided to wait it out knowing there's a very good chance of a denial. A withdrawal request can take just as long, they princely don't see it until they get your case. I saw a video where a lawyer said it took 8 months, and that's with them correcting USCIS multiple times. I thought the site didn't let you file another one of the 1st one is still active.