English Skills Learning Center

"The ESLC Citizenship Program helps people with very limited English to prepare and pass the U.S. citizenship test and become U.S Citizens, in one-on-one and small group classes taught by our great volunteers. It is a Basic English test with Civics questions, but it is a huge task for people with limited or no English skills.  Sometimes it takes over a year to get well-prepared for this test.

We are happy to share great news that, so far this year 14 students have passed their test, 11 of them got naturalized and 3 of them will be naturalized soon.

Last year we served 74 students preparing for the U.S. citizenship test. Currently we are serving 52 students and looking forward to watching this number to grow.  The U.S citizenship not only changes the status of our students, but it also has great impact on their families: such as getting citizenship for their children under the age of 18, become eligible for a federal position, getting a U.S passport and the opportunity to invite family members to come to the United States to reunify their families.

Here is the photo of our Florida Ndagijimana (student) and Oye Akin (volunteer volunteer) who recently started working on preparing for citizenship test. Florida and Oye meets twice a week at the student’s house."