<p><img alt="" class= "attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="710" src= "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/American-Flag.jpeg" width="899"></p> <p>Advocates for immigrants are fearful that a new citizenship test in the works from the Biden administration will be too hard.</p> <p>The current test in use is from 2008, according to <a href= "https://apnews.com/article/new-citizenship-test-naturalization-immigrants-immigration-c074aa1c92b226b4960485fb26d0f4fa" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a>. The Trump administration revised the test in 2020, which advocates deplored as being too difficult. In 2021, the Biden administration tossed out the Trump-era test and went back to the one that had been replaced.</p> <p>The new test is expected to be used next year. More than 1 million immigrants became U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2022, one of the highest levels since 1907.</p> <p>Sara Goodman, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine, told the AP the current test is easier than citizenship tests used by nations such as Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom.</p> <p>She said the test requires a high beginner level of English, and those taking it can have access to a question bank with answers before taking the test.</p> <p>However, the new test would add a <a href= "https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-admin-sues-az-law-requiring-voters-show-proof-citizenship/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">speaking section</a> in which citizenship applicants would be shown a picture and have to describe it in English.</p> <p>For me, I think it would be harder to look at pictures and explain them, said Heaven Mehreta, who came to the U.S. from Ethiopia 10 years ago and passed the test last year, according to the AP.</p> <p>We should not create additional barriers to naturalization when there are already so many, said Jennifer Anzardo Valdes, deputy director at Miami-based Americans for Immigrant Justice, according to <a href= "https://www.axios.com/2023/07/15/us-citizenship-test-english-biden" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Axios</a>.</p> <p>Helena Coric, the National Immigration Forums assistant vice president of Business Engagement & Inclusion Programs, said even the current English requirement is a barrier to citizenship, keeping immigrants with low proficiency levels from even applying for citizenship, according to Axios. A harder version will just make that worse.

She said the federal government should have an implementation plan that allows vulnerable populations an option to