PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The federal government implemented a new, longer version of the naturalization test last month, making it a bit more difficult for green card holders to become U.S. citizens.

The new test became standard as of October 20th as part of an executive order from the Trump administration earlier this year, and a Phoenix nonprofit is helping people study for the updated exam.

It is still oral exam with several accepted answers per question. However, the new version expands the list of potential questions from 100 to 128. Test takers will be asked 20 questions selected at random instead of 10, and will need to get 12 right to pass rather than six.

“About 25 percent of it is new material, and a lot of the new material goes in depth into history and the constitution more

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