Citizenship testing halted private exams nationwide
The Clinton administration will stop private citizenship testing citing fraud and inefficiency. Beginning Sept. 1 all testing will be done by the government through INS, reducing from about 1,000 sites to 100 facilities and affecting roughly 240,000 of last year’s applicants who used outside contractors. Immigrant advocates decry the change.
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