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The Naturalization Interview and Test (N-400 Part 9) – Master 37 Yes-No Questions & 90 Key Words for Citizenship Interview · U.S. Citizenship Test 2026

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  Have you ever claimed to be AUS citizen in writing or any other?
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  Way have you? Ever registered to vote or voted
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  in any federal, state, or local election in the United States?
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  No what? Does claim to be AUS citizen
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  mean to tell someone that you are AUS citizen?
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  To tell someone that you are AUS citizen?
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  What does vote mean? To elect a new leader.
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  To elect a new leader, do you currently owe any overdue
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  federal, state or local taxes in the United.
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  States no. Yes.
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  And if you owe taxes, the officer might ask, are you
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  planning to pay your overdue taxes?
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  Yes. What does owe taxes mean?
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  To owe the government money? To owe the government money.
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  What does owe any overdue taxes mean?
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  Didn't pay taxes on time? Didn't pay taxes on time?
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  Since you became a lawful permanent resident, have you
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  called yourself a non resident alien on a federal, state, or
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  local tax return or decided not to file a tax return because you
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  considered yourself to be a non resident?
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  No what? Is a non resident alien a person
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  who is not AUS resident? A person who is not AUS
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  resident. What does file a tax return
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  mean? To send a tax form to the
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  government. To send a tax form to the
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  government. Have you ever been a member of,
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  involved in, or in any way associated with any communist or
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  totalitarian party anywhere in the world?
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  No, tell me. What the Communist Party is no
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  freedom like Cuba or China. No freedom like Cuba or China.
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  What is a totalitarian party? A political party with total
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  control. A political party with total
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  control. Have you ever advocated,
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  supported, and promoted any of the following or been a member
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  of, involved in, or in any way associated with any group
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  anywhere in the world that advocated any of the following?
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  Opposition to all organized government?
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  World communism. The establishment in the United
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  States of a totalitarian dictatorship.
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  The overthrow by force or violence or other
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  unconstitutional means of the Government of the United States,
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  or all forms of law. No, what does?
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  Communism mean a political party with a lot of control.
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  A political party with a lot of control.
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  What is a totalitarian dictatorship?
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  A political system with total control.
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  A political system with total control.
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  What does overthrow mean? To remove a government by force?
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  To remove a government by force? Do you understand what
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  unconstitutional means are methods not allowed by the
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  Constitution? Methods not allowed by the
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  Constitution? The unlawful assault or killing
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  of any officer or officers of the government of the United
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  States or any other organized government because of their
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  official character. The unlawful damage, injury, or
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  destruction of property or sabotage.
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  No. What does unlawful assaulting
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  mean? To attack someone illegally?
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  To attack someone illegally. What is sabotage?
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  The act of destroying something? The act of destroying something.
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  Have you ever been a member of, involved in, or in any way
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  associated with, or have you ever provided money, a thing of
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  value, services or labor, or any other assistance or support to a
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  group that used a weapon or explosive with intent to harm
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  another person or cause damage to property?
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  No. What is a?
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  Weapon like a. Knife, gun or bomb?
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  Like a knife, gun or. Bomb what?
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  Is explosive a substance that can explode?
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  A substance that can explode? Engaged.
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  Participated in kidnapping, assassination or hijacking or
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  sabotage of an airplane, ship, vehicle, or other mode of
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  transportation? No.
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  What does kidnapping mean? Taking someone by force
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  illegally. Taking someone by force
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  illegally. What is assassination?
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  The killing of someone famous. The killing of someone famous.
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  What is hijacking? Taking control of a vehicle by
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  force. Taking control of a vehicle by
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  force. Threatened, attempted tribe,
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  conspired planning with others, Prepared, planned, advocated
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  for, or incited. Encouraged others to commit any
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  of the acts listed in item numbers 6 dot A or 6 dot.
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  B. No what?
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  Does threaten mean to tell someone you will hurt them?
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  To tell someone you will hurt them.
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  What does conspire mean? To plan secretly with other
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  people. To plan secretly with other
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  people. What does incited mean?
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  To encourage someone to do something illegal.
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  To encourage someone to do something illegal.
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  Have you ever ordered, incited, called for, committed, assisted,
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  helped with, or otherwise participated in any of the?
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  Following torture, genocide. Killing or trying to kill any.
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  Person no What? Does torture mean to cause great
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  pain to someone? To cause great pain to someone?
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  What does genocide? Mean killing a.
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  Whole race killing a whole. Race.
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  What does? Kill mean to cause someone to
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  die to cause someone to die intentionally and severely
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  injuring or trying to injure any person, any kind of sexual
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  contact or activity with any person who did not consent.
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  Did not agree or was unable to consent, Could not agree or was
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  being forced or threatened by you or someone else.
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  No. What does injure mean to hurt
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  someone? To hurt someone What does sexual
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  contact or activity mean? Touching private parts of
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  someone Touching private parts of someone What does did not
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  consent mean? Did not agree.
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  Did not agree. Have you?
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  Ever ordered, incited, called for, committed, assisted, helped
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  with, or otherwise participated in any of the following.
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  Not letting. Someone practice their religion.
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  Causing. Harm or suffering to any person
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  because of their race, religion, national origin, membership in a
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  particular social group, or political opinion.
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  No. What is?
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  Religion. The belief.
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  In a God or gods? The belief.
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  In a God or gods? What?
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  Is suffering physical or mental pain of a person?
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  Physical. Or mental pain of a person.
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  Have you? Ever served in, been a member
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  of, assisted, helped or participated in any military or
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  police unit? Have you?
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  Ever served in, been a member of, assisted, helped, or
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  participated in any armed group? A group that carries weapons,
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  for example, paramilitary units. A group of people who act like a
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  military group but are not part of the official military
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  self-defense unit, vigilante units, rebel group, or guerrilla
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  group. No.
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  What is? A military unit.
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  The official. Army for a country.
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  The official. Army for a country.
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  What is? A paramilitary unit.
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  Like a. Military group, but not
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  official. Like a.
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  Military group, but not official.
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  What is a? Self-defense unit.
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  A group that. Protects a community.
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  A group. That protects a community.
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  What? Is a rebel group.
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  A group that. Fights the government.
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  A group that. Fights the government.
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  What does? Guerrilla group mean.
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  A group that. Uses weapons to attack the
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  government. A group that.
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  Uses weapons to attack the government.
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  Have you? Ever worked, volunteered or
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  otherwise served in a place where people were detained,
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  forced to stay? For example, a prison jail,
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  prison camp? A camp where prisoners of war or
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  political prisoners are kept? Detention facility or labor
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  camp? Or have you ever directed or
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  participated in any other activity that involved detaining
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  people? No.
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  What does to be? Detained mean?
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  Held in. Custody by police.
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  Held in. Custody by police.
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  What is? Prison or jail?
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  A place. Where prisoners are kept.
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  A place. Where prisoners are kept.
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  What is? A detention facility.
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  A place. Where people are forced to stay.
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  A place. Where people are forced to stay.
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  What is a? Labor Camp.
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  A place where? People are forced to work.
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  A place where? People are forced to work.
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  Were you? Ever a part of any group or did
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  you ever help any group, unit, or organization that used a
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  weapon against any person or threatened to do so?
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  If you answered yes to item number 10 dot a?
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  When were you a part of this group or when you helped this
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  group? Did you ever use a weapon
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  against another person? If you.
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  Answered yes to item number 10 dot a.
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  When you are a part of this group or when you helped this
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  group, did you ever threaten another person that you would
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  use a weapon against that person?
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  No, have you? Ever sold, provided or
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  transported weapons or assisted any person in selling, providing
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  or transporting weapons which you knew or believed would be
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  used against another person? Have you?
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  Ever received any weapons training, paramilitary training,
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  or other military type training? No.
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  What is? Weapons training.
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  Learning how? To use a gun?
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  Learning how to use a gun. What is paramilitary training?
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  Learning how to. Fight in combat Learning how to
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  fight in combat. What is?
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  Military type training. Learning how?
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  To fight in combat. Learning how?
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  To fight in combat. Have you?
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  Ever recruited, asked enlisted, signed up, conscripted, required
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  to join, or used any person under 15 years of age to serve
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  in or help an armed group, or attempted or worked with others
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  to do so? Have you?
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  Ever used any person under 15 years of age to take part in
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  hostilities, or attempted or worked with others to do so?
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  This could include participating in combat or providing services
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  related to combat, such as serving as a messenger or
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  transporting supplies. No, what does?
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  Recruit mean. To ask.
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  Someone to join the armed forces?
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  To ask. Someone to join the armed
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  forces? Have you?
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  Ever committed, assisted in committing, or attempted to
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  commit a crime or offense for which you were not arrested?
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  No, what does? Commit mean.
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  To do something. Wrong or illegal?
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  To do something. Wrong or illegal?
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  What is a? Crime.
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  An. Action that breaks the law.
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  An action. That breaks the law.
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  What is an offense? A minor.
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  Crime. A minor.
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  Crime. What does?
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  To be arrested mean. To be.
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  Handcuffed by the police. To be.
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  Handcuffed by the police. Have you?
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  Ever been arrested, cited, detained or confined by any law
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  enforcement officer, military official in the US or elsewhere,
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  or immigration official for any reason or been charged with a
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  crime or offense? No.
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  Yes, if you have. Received any traffic tickets
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  behind the wheel? You must answer yes to this
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  question. So the traffic ticket is a
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  citation. What does?
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  To be cited mean. Given a.
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  Ticket by police. Given a ticket.
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  By police. What does to be?
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  Confined mean. To be kept.
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  In a place. To be kept.
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  In a place. What does to be?
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  Charged Mean. To be.
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  Accused of a crime? To be.
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  Accused of a crime? Have you ever?
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  Received a suspended sentence, been placed on probation or been
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  paroled. No.
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  Yes. If you answered yes, have you
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  completed the probation or parole, Yes or no?
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  What does? Suspended sentence mean.
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  Delaying a. Sentence delaying a sentence.
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  Have you? Ever used any person under 15
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  years of age to take part in hostilities, or attempted or
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  worked with others to do so? This could include participating
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  in combat or providing services related to combat, such as
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  serving as a messenger or transporting supplies.
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  No, what does? Procure mean.
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  To find. A prostitute for somebody.
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  To find a. Prostitute for somebody.
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  Please tell. Me what prostitute is.
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  Someone. Who has sex for money?
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  Someone who has sex for money. What is?
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  Prostitution. The work.
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  Of a prostitute. The work.
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  Of a prostitute. Have you?
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  Ever manufactured, cultivated, produced, distributed,
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  dispensed, sold or smuggled, trafficked any controlled
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  substances, illegal drugs, narcotics or drug paraphernalia
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  in violation of any law or regulation of AUS State, the
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  United States, or a foreign country.
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  No, what does? Smuggle mean.
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  To take. Things to a country illegally.
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  To take. Things to a country illegally.
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  What are? Controlled substances.
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  Drugs. Controlled by the government.
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  Drugs. Controlled by the government.
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  What are? Illegal drugs or narcotics.
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  Like. Heroin or cocaine?
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  Like. Heroin or cocaine?
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  What is? Drug paraphernalia.
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  Equipment. To make or use illegal drugs.
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  Equipment. To make or use illegal drugs.
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  Have you? Ever been married to more than
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  one person at the same time? Have you ever?
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  Married someone in order to obtain an immigration benefit.
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  Have you? Ever helped anyone to enter or
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  try to enter the United States illegally?
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  No what? Does obtain mean?
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  To gain. Something.
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  To gain. Something.
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  What is an? Immigration benefit.
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  Things like a visa, green card or citizenship.
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  Things like a visa, green card or citizenship.
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  What does? Illegally mean.
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  Not. Allowed by the law.
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  Not. Allowed by the law.
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  Have you? Ever gambled illegally or
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  received income from illegal gambling?
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  Have you? Ever failed to support your
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  dependents, pay child support or to pay alimony?
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  Court ordered financial support after divorce or separation.
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  No, what does? Gamble mean?
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  To play. A game for money.
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  To play. A game for money.
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  What does? Illegal gambling mean.
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  To play. A game for money illegally.
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  To play. A game for money illegally.
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  What? Does pay alimony mean?
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  To pay. Money to an ex-spouse after a
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  divorce. To pay.
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  Money to an ex-spouse after a divorce.
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  Have you ever? Made any misrepresentation to
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  obtain any public benefit in the United States.
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  No. How do you define?
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  Misrepresentation. The act.
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  Of giving false information. The act.
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  Of giving false information. What is public benefit welfare?
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  Like food stamps, housing or health care?
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  Welfare. Like food stamps, housing or
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  healthcare? Have you?
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  Ever given any U.S. government officials any information or
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  documentation that was false, fraudulent, or misleading?
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  Have you? Ever lied to any U.S. government
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  officials to gain entry or admission into the United States
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  or to gain immigration benefits while in the United States?
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  No. Do you know?
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  What false is? It means.
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  It's not true. It means.
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  It's not true. What is?
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  Fraudulent. To be.
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  Dishonest. To be.
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  Dishonest. What is?
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  Misleading. Giving.
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  Somebody the wrong idea? Giving somebody the wrong idea.
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  What? Does lie mean?
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  To say. Something that is not true.
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  To say. Something that is not true.
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  Have you? Ever been placed in removal,
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  rescission or deportation proceedings?
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  Have you? Ever been removed or deported
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  from the United States? No.
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  Do you know? What removal is?
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  Making. Someone leave the US.
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  Making. Someone leave the US.
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  Do you? Understand what rescission is.
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  To take. Back a decision.
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  To take. Back a decision.
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  What is? Deportation proceeding.
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  A legal. Process for deporting a person.
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  A legal. Process for deporting a person.
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  What does? To be deported mean.
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  To be forced. To leave the US.
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  To be forced. To leave the US.
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  Are you a? Person born as a male who lived
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  in the United States at any time between your 18th and 26th
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  birthdays. No, Yes, if you.
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  Answered yes to item number 22 dot a.
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  Did you register for the Selective Service?
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  No. Yes, if.
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  You answered yes to item number 22 dot B.
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  Provide information about your registration.
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  What is? Selective Service services and
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  armed forces under law. Services and armed forces under
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  law. Have you ever?
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  Left the United States to avoid being drafted in the US armed
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  forces. Have you ever?
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  Applied for any kind of exemption from military service
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  in the US armed forces. Have you ever?
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  Served in the US armed forces. No, what does?
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  Avoid being drafted mean. To prevent.
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  Being selected as a soldier to prevent being selected as a
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  soldier. Do you know?
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  What US armed forces are. US.
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  Military, Navy, Air Force, Space Force.
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  US. Military, Navy, Air Force, Space
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  Force. Are you?
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  Currently a member of the US Armed Forces.
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  No, if you. Answered yes to item number 26
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  dot A. Are you scheduled to deploy
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  outside the United States, including to a vessel, within
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  the next three months? No, Yes, if you.
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  Answered yes to item number 26 dot a.
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  Are you currently stationed outside the United States?
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  No, yes, if you answered. No to item number 26 dot A.
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  Are you a former U.S. military service member who is currently
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  residing outside of the US? Yes or no?
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  Have you ever? Been court martialed or have you
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  received a discharge characterized as other than
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  honorable, bad conduct or dishonorable while in the US
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  Armed forces? Have you ever?
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  Been discharged from training or service in the US armed forces
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  because you were an alien? Have you ever deserted from the
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  US armed forces? No.
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  Do you know? What alien is?
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  A person. Who lives in a country but is
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  not a citizen. A person who lives in a country
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  but is not a citizen. Do you?
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  Now have or did you ever have a hereditary title or an order of
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  nobility in any foreign country? No, Yes, if you.
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  Answered yes to item number 30 dot a.
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  Are you willing to give up any inherited titles or orders of
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  nobility that you have in a foreign country at your
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  naturalization ceremony? Yes.
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  What is? A hereditary title.
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  A royal. Title, such as a Prince or
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  Princess. A royal.
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  Title, such as a Prince or Princess.
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  Do you know? What an order of nobility is.
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  A position. Given by a king or queen.
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  A position. Given by a king or queen.
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  Do you support the Constitution and form of government of the
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  United States? Do you?
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  Understand the full oath of allegiance to the United States.
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  Yes, what? Is the Constitution.
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  It's the. Supreme law of the land.
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  It's the. Supreme law of the land.
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  What is? The form of government of the
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  United States. Republic.
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  Republic what? Does allegiance mean to be loyal
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  to something? To be loyal to something.
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  Are you? Unable to take the oath of
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  allegiance because of a physical or developmental disability or
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  mental impairment. No, what does?
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  Developmental disability mean. A problem.
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  With body movement or function. A.
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  Problem with body movement or function.
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  What does? Mental impairment mean.
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  Having a. Mental problem.
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  Having a. Mental problem.
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  Are you? Willing to take the full oath of
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  allegiance to the United States. If the law.
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  Requires it. Are you willing to bear arms on
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  behalf of the United States? Yes, what?
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  Does oath of allegiance to the United States mean?
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  A promise. To be loyal to the United
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  States. A promise.
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  To be loyal to the United States.
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  What? Does bear arms mean?
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  To own. Or use a gun to fight.
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  To own. Or use a gun to fight.
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  If the law. Requires it.
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  Are you willing to perform noncombatant services in the US
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  armed forces? If the law.
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  Requires it. Are you willing to perform work
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  of national importance under civilian direction?
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  Yes, what does? Noncombatant services mean
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  services that do not involve combat or fighting.
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  Services that do not involve combat or fighting.
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  What is? Work of national importance.
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  Tasks. That are important to a nation
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  during crisis. Tasks.
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  That are important to a nation during crisis.
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  What is a? Civilian direction.
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  A direction from a person who is not in the military.
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  A direction from a person who is not in the military.