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65/20 accommodation track
Applicants 65 or older with 20+ years as a permanent resident study the starred subset for their assigned USCIS track. This current combined source has 62 tagged questions across both tracks.
USCIS gives long-term permanent residents an age-based accommodation. If you qualify for 65/20, you study only the starred subset for the test track USCIS assigns to your filing — not both full banks — and you may answer the civics test in your own language, with an interpreter you bring. The nearby 50/20 and 55/15 rules excuse only the English test, not the full question set. USCIS’s newer 2025 test track (see which track is yours) preserves the 65/20 accommodation with its own starred subset. The list below combines the currently tagged questions from both tracks (62 total); use only your assigned track and verify the current official subset at uscis.gov before your interview.
65 or older with 20+ years as a permanent resident: study only the 20 starred questions (2008 test track), and may test in your own language with an interpreter. The 2025 test track preserves this accommodation with its own starred subset — see Part 5.
55 or older with 15+ years as a permanent resident: may take the civics test in your own language with an interpreter (English test still required unless another exception applies).
50 or older with 20+ years as a permanent resident: may take the civics test in your own language with an interpreter (English test still required unless another exception applies).
Form N-648, completed by a medical professional, can excuse the English and/or civics requirements for an applicant with a qualifying disability or impairment. This runs through your doctor and preparer, not this course.
This page teaches the test. Whether you qualify for an accommodation is a question for your N-400 and your immigration attorney or a USCIS-accredited representative — not for this course.
Pulled directly from the same imported question pool used across every /citizenship page — never a separately maintained list. Expand any question to see the answer and explanation.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land — the test's foundational question. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
27 total; the first 10 are the Bill of Rights — keep the two numbers separate. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
The First Amendment five: speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
Capitalist or market economy — either official form passes. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
Any branch name or its institution works: Congress/legislative, President/executive, courts/judicial. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
Senate + House — the bicameral pair. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
Four-year presidential terms; elections in November. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
November — the calendar answer paired with the 4-year term. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
The veto is the executive check on the legislature — same grid as the signing question. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.2)
The Supreme Court — pair it with the how-many-justices and Chief-Justice dynamic cards. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
Democratic and Republican — with the President's-party question as its dynamic sibling. (Starred*.) (Book §1.3)
Dynamic answer: never memorize from stale materials; our officeholders worksheet routes you to the official source. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.2)
Dynamic answer: Governor, your two US Senators, your Representative, Speaker, and Chief Justice all ride the current-officeholders worksheet. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.3)
The First Amendment five: speech, religion, assembly, press, petition — petition is the one students forget. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
Capitalist and market both pass; command/planned economy is the opposite. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.1)
The three-column card: legislative-Congress, executive-President, judicial-courts. (Starred*.) (Book §1.2)
The paired questions travel together; the count is verify-current by design. (Starred* on the court.) (Book §1.2)
Know-YOUR-state discipline: the capital, Governor, and Senators are all state-specific answers. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.3)
Senators are state-specific AND dynamic — the double-trap the worksheet defuses. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.3)
The supreme-law phrase answers the what-is question AND its reverse form. (Starred*.) (Book §1.1)
The party pair is stable; WHICH party holds the presidency changes — the split the worksheet manages. (Starred* the pair.) (Book §1.3)
Dynamic answer: the Vice Presidency changes with elections and appointments; never memorize from stale materials — the officeholders worksheet routes you to the official source. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §1.2)
Eighteen and older — the 26th Amendment's number, asked directly. (Starred*.) (Book §2.1)
Everyone pays taxes and obeys laws; jury service and federal voting are the citizens-only responsibilities. (Starred*.) (Book §2.2)
Loyalty to the flag and to the United States — either or both accepted. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §2.2)
April 15 — the test's most concrete date. (Starred*.) (Book §2.3)
Flag + United States — either or both; officeholders are never the object of the pledge. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §2.2)
Part 2's two hard numbers, paired: tax day and Selective Service. (Tax day is Starred*.) (Book §2.3)
Taxes and law-obedience bind everyone; jury (and federal voting) are the citizens-only answers. (Starred*.) (Book §2.2)
Eighteen-and-older is the 26th — also the direct answer to the voting-age question. (Starred*.) (Book §2.1)
The test's most concrete date — calendar it twice. (Starred*.) (Book §2.3)
Native Americans/American Indians — either official form. (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
Jefferson wrote it; Washington fathered the country; Franklin gets his own famous-for list — keep the trio straight. (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
Washington — also the answer to 'who was the first President?' (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
Washington again — the pairing with Father of Our Country makes both automatic. (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
Lincoln's official list: Emancipation, preserving the Union, Civil War leadership — any one. (Starred*.) (Book §3.2)
The 1900s sequence: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf — any one. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
Either accepted phrasing; King's is among the most-asked questions in real interviews. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
The official phrasing: terrorists attacked the United States. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
Either official phrase passes; practice pronouncing both. (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
Lincoln: Emancipation, Union, Civil War leadership. Alaska belongs to a different era. (Starred* Lincoln.) (Book §3.2)
Either official phrase passes — among the most-asked at real interviews. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
Say the official sentence; it is the accepted answer. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
The double-Washington: memorize once, answer twice. (Starred* both.) (Book §3.1)
Same date, two granularities — the paired-question drill from the treatise. (Starred*.) (Book §3.1)
The two most-answered names on the test, consolidated into one recall card. (Starred* both names.) (Book §3.2)
One rehearsed sentence answers two official questions aloud. (Starred* King.) (Book §3.3)
Say the sentence exactly; it is the accepted answer. (Starred*.) (Book §3.3)
Washington, D.C. — paired with the where-is-the-Statue-of-Liberty question. (Starred*.) (Book §4.1)
New York Harbor/Liberty Island (New Jersey-adjacent answers also accepted). (Starred*.) (Book §4.1)
Stripes = original colonies; stars = current states — the flag's two-number logic. (Starred*.) (Book §4.2)
Stars = states; the accepted forms all say one star per state. (Starred*.) (Book §4.2)
July 4 — the 1776 adoption date wearing its holiday clothes. (Starred*.) (Book §4.2)
Any two from the official list; Halloween and Valentine's are the classic traps (not national holidays). (Starred*.) (Book §4.2)
The two place answers travel as a pair; swapping them is the classic slip. (Starred* both.) (Book §4.1)
The flag's two-number logic answers two official questions at once. (Starred* both.) (Book §4.2)
One date, two questions — holiday (no year) and adoption (with year). (Starred*.) (Book §4.2)
USCIS accepts several location forms; say the one you can pronounce confidently. (Starred*.) (Book §4.1)
Say 'Washington, D.C.' — the D.C. distinguishes it from the state on the Canada border. (Starred*.) (Book §4.1)
Speaker is a dynamic card like President, VP, Chief Justice, Governor, Senators. (DYNAMIC.) (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §4.4)
The Congress power list grew: laws, war declaration, budget. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §5.2)
Same official list as Part 4 — the ask just got bigger; keep three ready. (Starred* for 65/20 studiers.) (Book §5.5)
Every numbered practice test draws from the full pool, so starred questions naturally appear inside them too. For focused review of only the starred set, use the expandable list above as many times as you like — there is no limit and no account required to read it.
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