qualify yrself fer u.s. citizenship

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.

haha, thanks crabbits! it was a pretty fun class. we did all kinds of weird stuff. i got a full time job right after that semester was over, but i have fond memories of explaining the differences between local, state, and federal governments (among other things).

56. Going back to check just exactly what mistakes were made.

... i wonder how many of us Americans would do as well on that as certain Brits have done on this poll.

their newspaper columnists talk about our politics, they watch our tv shows, that's already 9/10 of what makes americans know anything about u.s. citizenship

23 - got the buildings and the law peeps, but not much else. Will have to stay in Belgium I guess.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://www.bbc.com/news/35383435

this is absolutely bonkers

Huh. Never heard of this before. I er know of someone who's lived in the UK for 12 years and has never filed a US tax return in that time. They have a building society account rather than bank. Not sure if that makes any difference.

i vaguely remember an american colleague filing her us taxes in canada years ago, but i didn't know the exact details. this man in a suit with a briefcase would show up at random times. "he's the irs man!" she exclaimed. he would come by every year to remind her that she had to submit her paperwork. like something out of a kafka story

I have a U.S.-born U.K. facebook friend who brings this up every year around tax time. It's been giving her hell apparently.

this is absolutely bonkers

what does the US and Eritrea have in common

A law that actually got passed following the 2010 elections is a fucking grease fire creating "unintended" consequences for ordinary working American citizens.

Wow, etc.

kids

papa infinity got his interview scheduled

if all goes well, soon i'lll be a proud american my babies

will post the q&a i'm supposed to study soon

will you be renouncing loyalty to hexylvania

will tone down the shenanigans eat lots of burgers and pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all

you didn't answer the question

flag'm!

A hacker should break into the server and replace that picture of Scalia with a rotting corpse.

whats the supreme law of the land

here's some good polls to brush up on

U.S. Code Titles THE POLL

US Government Publishing Office Bestsellers: The Poll

good luck ∞ !!!