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March 6, 1998
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The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service plans to pull the plug on independent groups, including Jewish communal organizations across the country, who have been administering the civics portion of the citizenship test. Beginning Sept. 1, only INS agencies will give the test — a move that immigration advocates fear will lengthen the waiting time for applicants. Jewish agencies administered tens of thousands of the tests year to refugees from the former Soviet Union.

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