(NEXSTAR) — As part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is expanding and altering its Naturalization Civics Test.

Applicants have had to take a naturalization test in some form for at least a century, according to USCIS. For the last few years, the agency had been using the 2008 version of the citizenship test. The Biden administration switched to that older, shorter version of the test over concerns that the version enacted in 2020 would "inadvertently create potential barriers to the naturalization process."

However, the USCIS is now reverting to the 2020 iteration of the test, adding 28 questions to the pool of potential questions (there are 100 in the 2008 version, which is viewable online). Roughly 75% of the new test (also found online) is the same or similar to the former version, USCIS said.

An analysis by Nexstar found multiple instances of that. For example, the old test asked, “The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?” The new test asks, “The U.S. Constitution starts with the words ‘We the People.’ What does “We the People” mean?”

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