Citizenship Test Answers for Puerto Rico
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has no U.S. senators. Its representative in Congress is a nonvoting Resident Commissioner; naming that person is acceptable, and so is saying the territory has no voting representatives.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Puerto Rico
San Juan
The capital answer does not change. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has no U.S. senators. Saying so is the correct answer.
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner now
Pablo José Hernández
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Puerto Rico now
Jenniffer González-Colón
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Puerto Rico
San Juan is Puerto Rico's capital and largest city, founded in 1521 and the oldest city under the American flag, more than a century older than Boston. Puerto Rico is a territory rather than a state, which shapes the answers here: it has no U.S. senators, and its seat in the House belongs to a nonvoting Resident Commissioner, so answering that the territory has no voting representatives is correct. It does have a governor, elected by residents. People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens by birth, a status Congress granted in 1917. The territory casts no electoral votes for president, because the Constitution assigns electors to the states and to the District of Columbia only.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.