When President Trump signed the "Restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant workers" proclamation on Friday, several companies issued alerts to H-1B staff telling them not to leave the US and to return if they were overseas, while there were reports of passengers rushing to get off flights leaving the country.
New changes are coming to the U.S. citizenship test, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Wednesday. The government is reinstating a 2020 exam from President Trump's first administration. Applicants will have to study 128 questions about U.S. history and politics and correctly answer 12 out of 20 questions. Previously, applicants had to answer six out of 10 questions correctly.
Changes continue that could affect how many people obtain U.S. citizenship. Now, the Donald Trump administration has placed greater emphasis on the requirement of good moral character for naturalization. This concept has long been a key part of U.S. immigration law, and the administration's new directive broadens its scope, raising concerns that the citizenship process will become more subjective and restrictive for hundreds of thousands of immigrants each year.
