People from more than 40 countries participate in a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix in 2018. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) In towns across the United States, it’s a Fourth of July tradition: celebrating the country’s birthday by naturalizing new citizens. Eighteen cities across the nation, from Seattle to New Orleans to Portsmouth, N.H., held naturalization ceremonies Tuesday, with more in the days before and after the holiday.

But the path to citizenship could be getting rockier. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is weighing changes to the citizenship test that would add a new English-speaking section and multiple-choice civics questions — […]

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