Name your U.S. representative.

Why this is the answer

Your U.S. representative is the member of the House elected by the congressional district where you live, so the answer is a name, and it depends on your address. Every state is divided into districts, and each district elects one person to the House. Wyoming has a single voting member for the whole state; California has 52. Unless your state has a single member, knowing the state is not enough: you need your district. The House's website, house.gov, lists every representative and the district each one serves, and the study guide sends applicants there. Districts are not permanent. After each census, taken every ten years, House seats are recalculated among the states. A state can gain or lose a seat, and when its number of seats changes, its districts change with it. If you moved, or if the seats in your state were redistributed, your representative may be someone new. Elections can change the answer as well. All House members are elected every two years, and USCIS says you must answer with the name of the official serving at the time of your interview. Check the name in the weeks before you go, not months earlier. Unlike the senator question, two neighbors can have different answers here if a district line runs between their homes. Residents of U.S. territories have their own set of accepted answers. Some territories send a nonvoting delegate or a resident commissioner to the House. If you live in one, you may give that person's name, or simply say that the territory has no voting representative in Congress. Either is accepted. The most common mistake is naming one of your two U.S. senators. Senators represent all the people of the state, while your representative speaks for one district. Another is naming a member of your state legislature. The question asks for the person who represents your district in the U.S. House in Washington.