USCIS Vocabulary- part 1

Steps for citizenship are called:

• ladder

• naturalization

• elevator

• DMV

A box that does not need an answer, does not apply:

• N/A

• NP

• MN

• NN

When traveling to a different country:

• brood

• domestic

• abroad

• passport

Other names that you have used in the past:

• alien

• aliases

• alley

• apple

Your birth family’s last name:

• mad

• mermaid

• maiden name

• Madden

Something that is not required:

• exemption

• excellent

• excel

• ex

date and time for the interview

• schedule

• “interview scheduled”

• cancel

• careful

When someone pays for bills and expenses:

• “financially supported”

• finance

• business

• credit cards

To be allowed or able to do something:

• actual

• impossible

• eligible

• cancel

To sneak something or someone into the country illegally:

• snuggle

• smuggled

• legal

• customs