A Quick Update of New Resources for U.S. Citizenship Prep

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A quick update of new resources for U.S. Citizenship prep plus directions on how to print out USCIS One Nation, One People.  

Dollar General Grant page

Looking for Adult Ed program funding? The Dollar General Grant is one of the easiest grants to get for small programs.

ESL Video: Study for the US Citizenship Civics Test page

ESL Video looking for teachers/classes to beta test their new USCIS Officer Chattybot.  Contact Ryan Detwiler ryandetwiler@eslvideo.com more class codes.  Mega congrats to ESL Video for their 12-part series based on the USCIS One Nation, One People textbook.

LINCS: Top 10 U.S. Citizenship Preparation Resources for 2025 post

List of citizenship resources for 2025.

USA Learns: Access America Unit 5: Settling In 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities website

USA Learns Access completed a course update Fall 2024, an awesome intro to EL Civics topics.  They built out Unit 5.2 to include sections about becoming a Citizenship and immigration which includes activities for the videos below.  Look for updates to USA Learn’s Citizenship course in 2025.  To make suggestions or comments, contact help@usalearns.org.

• Becoming a U.S. Citizen
• Getting Help – Citizenship

USCIS Tech Talks: Supporting our Valued Stakeholders (Dec 10, 2024) video

During this engagement, on December 10, 2024, USCIS presented on the use of an Online Access Code by applicants and legal representatives, updating legal representatives, including filing a stand-alone form G-28, in online accounts.

USCIS Office of Citizenship ALL DAY Teach Training Sessions 2025 page

Coming soon to a city near you, the USCIS Office of Citizenship Training Team! 

uscitizenpod: Winter Holidays Citizenship Quiz 2024   video | PDF | MP3   

Include religious, secular, and civic holidays.

uscitizenpod: USCIS One Nation, One People PRINTING DIRECTIONS

Note: If you want the pdf already reformatted, click https://bit.ly/1n1px

Create main text

1. Download pdf from https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/brochures/OOC_M-1175_CivicsTextbook_8.5x11_V7_RGB_English_508.pdf
2.  Open pdd in Adobe Acrobat
3. File > Print. Printer: Adobe PDF
4.  Pages to Print > Pages: 3 to 44
5. Page Scaling: Tile Large Pages
6. Tile Scale: 100% Overlap: 0 in.
7. Orientation: Portrait
8. OK to create the PDF. (another pop-up will open--click the prompt--I saved the new file as "1n1p")

With this method, you do not have to manually reorder the pages.

Add Cover and Back

A. Open the Original PDF

1. Tool > Organize Pages > check Extract as Separate File > Extract (save as Cover)
2. Tool > Organize Pages >check Extract as Separate File > Extract (save as Back)

B. Open the Newly-created PDF

1. Tools > Organize Pages > check Insert File > Select Cover > Click open
2. Insert Pages Pop-up: Location > Before > First > Ok
3. Tools > Organize Pages > check Insert File > Select Back > Click open
4. Insert Pages Pop-up: Location > After > Last > Ok