Help Desk:

My mother will take Naturalization Oath Ceremony next month at a local district court, she got a form N-445 for many questions on it to answer. Since my mother' English is not good, I want to know if USCIS officers at the Naturalization Oath Ceremony will evaluate applicants’ ability to speak English, or the applicants are not required to do so after they passed a standardized test before at a formal interview?

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Answer: There should be no evaluation of applicants’ ability to speak English during the Naturalization Oath Ceremony. But applicants should prepare for the naturalization oath ceremony. Therefore, candidates for the oath ceremony should take time to read over and fill out the questions with signature before going to the swearing-in ceremony. 

They should familiarize themselves with the questions in order to answer questions in English in the event that questions are asked. Please note that the questions pertain to activities which have occurred since the date of the naturalization interview. 

For others who are not know, the N-445 questions are as follows:

After the date you were first interviewed on your application for Naturalization, Form N-400:

1. Have you married, or been widowed, separated, or divorced? (If “Yes” please bring documented proof of marriage, death, separation or divorce.)

2. Have you traveled outside the United States?

3. Have you knowingly committed any crime or offense, for which you have not been arrested; or have you been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, convicted, fined, or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance, including traffic violations?

4. Have you joined any organization, including the Communist Party, or become associated or connected therewith in any way?

5. Have you claimed exemption from military service?

6. Has there been any change in your willingness to bear arms on behalf of the United States; to perform non-combatant service in the armed forces of the United States; to perform work of national importance under civilian direction, if the law requires it?

7. Have you practiced polygamy; received income from illegal gambling; been a prostitute, procured anyone for prostitution or been involved in any other unlawful commercialized vice; encouraged or helped any alien to enter the United States illegally; illicitly trafficked in drugs or marihuana; given any false testimony to obtain immigration benefits; or been a habitual drunkard?

 

 

 

 

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