2025 Naturalization Civics Test
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2025 On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, USCIS announced a new 2025 Naturalization Civics test. This new test will be very similar to the 2020 Naturalization Civics […]
US Citizenship Act 2021 – A Summary of Selected sections in point form
Dear Reader: PLEASE NOTE – each and every clause of the new bill is NOT discussed below – this summary is of the clauses that I thought were relevant and […]
Proof of Financial Ability-Form I-944
Form I-944 is a new USCIS form. It came into effect on February 24, 2020, under the presidential proclamation issued by Trump, calling for the USCIS to scrutinize all US […]
78 pages and $1760
78 pages and $1760 © Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2020 __________________________________________________________________________ Yes. That’s right. 78 pages and $1760. That is how much it would take in terms of the application forms […]
Why Can’t “They” Just Become Legal?
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2019 __________________________________________________________________________ Time after time, in discussing immigration with fellow citizens, even lawyers, I have heard the question raised: Why can’t “they” become legal? The “they” […]
USCIS Plays Grinch for Christmas
by Farhad Sethna, © 2016 Too bad that one of my last posts – or possibly the last post for 2016 – has to be a negative observation: The USCIS […]
USCIS ANNOUNCES FEE INCREASE
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 In a notice published on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in the Federal Register (the official publication of the United States Government), the USCIS proposed […]
NEW NATURALIZATION FORM N-400 EFFECTIVE MAY 5, 2014
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2014 Effective May 5, 2014, any applicant for naturalization (U.S. citizenship) will be required to file the new version of Form N-400, which has a […]