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Sporting focus off citizenship test

Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A review of the nation's controversial citizenship test will today find the test has been too strongly focused on Australian history and will recommend an overhaul of the test process. Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans said the focus of the new...

Tags: citizenship test, Donald Bradman, Don Bradman, National Australia Day Council, cricketer legend, Kevin Rudd, australians citizen, minister kevin, sir donald, federal government

Could you pass the new citizenship test?

Clarkston :: GA :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

James Yarsiah listened to his college classmates discuss whether the civics component of the new U.S. naturalization test -- which prospective citizens can start taking Wednesday -- is more challenging than its predecessor. Are new conceptual questions...

Tags: citizenship test

Germany introduces citizenship test for immigrants

Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Germany on Monday introduced a test for foreigners who want to become German citizens, even though critics have slammed the move as discriminatory. There are 310 questions to determine whether an applicant knows enough about the country's political system,...

Tags: Germany, citizenship test

Citizenship test to be overhauled

Umm Durmān :: Sudan | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

S citizenship test set-up by the Howard government is set for a major overhaul after a review found it to be flawed and discriminatory. Richard Woolcott is the head of a committee commissioned to review the test said the 2006-document needs reform, News...

Tags: citizenship test

German cabinet approves new citizenship test and ID cards

Berlin :: Germany | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The new identification cards, set for use in 2010, will ease commerce for internet sales and make bank transfers and bureaucratic affairs run more smoothly. A digital fingerprint saved to the card will be optional, though a digital photo will be required...

Tags: citizenship test

German-Turkish conference focuses on integration

Cologne :: Germany | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

German-Turkish conference focuses on integration The German Embassy over the weekend held a conference titled "Integration versus Assimilation -- A Transnational Attempt at Thinking" in İstanbul, bringing together a number of high-ranking German and Turkish...

Tags: citizenship test, Germany

Govt spends $3.4m to help refugees pass citizenship test

Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans says the organisations help around 35,000 people who have difficulty taking the test. "The services will help refugees and other people overcome disadvantages such as low English proficiency, a lack of formal education,...

Tags: citizenship test, help refugees

Citizenship test 'spooks' migrants

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Australians because they feared they would be deported if they failed the controversial citizenship test, Immigration Minister Chris Evans has admitted. Senator Evans yesterday ruled out scrapping the test, but said an independent committee would examine...

Tags: citizenship test

School 'helps citizenship cheats'

Sale :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A BBC undercover reporter filmed a language school giving the candidates answers to an English test in advance. Since 2005, most people applying for citizenship have had to demonstrate proficiency with the English language and a knowledge of British

Tags: recruit, citizenship test, uk citizenship

Craig Ferguson Passes Citizenship Test

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The "Late Late Show" host announced Monday that he got a perfect score on his citizenship test, taken Friday in Los Angeles. The Scottish-born Ferguson will officially be sworn in a few weeks from now. "All of you people born here, if you had to

Tags: Craig Ferguson, citizenship test, late late, U.S

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