About CivicsGuide

CivicsGuide is a study aid for the U.S. naturalization test: the civics questions, the reading and writing test, and the interview itself. This page says who is behind it, where the answers come from, and what to do if you find one that is wrong.

Who runs CivicsGuide

CivicsGuide is operated by First Bravo LLC, doing business as ConfirmDev. We build the study app, write the guides on this site, and are responsible for every page on it.

We are an independent company. We are not USCIS, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by USCIS or any other government agency.

Where our answers come from

Every civics answer on this site is checked against what USCIS publishes, because that is what the officer at your interview works from:

• The 2025 civics test questions and answers and the reading and writing vocabulary lists, published by USCIS.
• The USCIS test updates page, for the answers that change: the President, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and the Chief Justice.
• The USCIS Policy Manual and the Form N-400 instructions, for the rules about who takes which test, exemptions, fees and timing.

When a study guide, a forum post or another website disagrees with USCIS, we go with USCIS, and we say so on the page.

How we keep the changing answers current

Eight civics questions have answers that change with elections, appointments and resignations. Those pages state the current answer and show the date it was last checked.

• National answers (questions 30, 38, 39 and 57) are copied from the USCIS test updates page, including every form of the name USCIS accepts.
• Senators and representatives (questions 23 and 29) come from the public congress-legislators dataset, which is maintained from official House and Senate records. Vacant seats are shown as vacant.
• ZIP codes to congressional districts come from the Census Bureau’s ZIP code to congressional district relationship file. When a ZIP code crosses a district line we say so, rather than guess.
• Governors (question 61) come from usa.gov, the source USCIS points to, and are cross-checked against the National Governors Association. When the two disagree, we check the state’s own website before anything is published.

We refresh this data after elections and whenever an office changes hands. Even so, check the official source in the week of your interview: you must answer with whoever holds the office on the day you are tested.

What we are not

We are not your lawyer, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Naturalization decisions can turn on the details of your own case. If your situation involves a criminal record, time spent outside the United States, a past immigration problem or anything else you are unsure about, speak to an immigration attorney or a DOJ-accredited representative.

Found a mistake?

Email [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. We check every report against the USCIS source, correct the page if we got it wrong, and update the date shown at the top of the article.