qualify yrself fer u.s. citizenship

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.

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