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While the eligibility requirements and the subject material of the naturalization test have not changed, applicants are now using a stylus on a digital tablet instead of a paper application. Immigration Services Officers (ISO) will carefully instruct applicants on how to use the tablets before administering the tests: * For the reading test, a sentence will appear on the tablet and the ISO will ask the applicant to read it. * For the writing test, several lines will appear on the tablet, replicating the appearance of a piece of blank paper. The ISO will read a sentence aloud and ask the applicant to write it on the tablet. Applicants will continue to take the civics test verbally, without the tablet. [USCIS is now using digital tablets to administer the English reading and writing tests during naturalization interviews.] ________________________________ Please do not reply to this message. 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