Passport at time of Oath Ceremony?

[awesomecal]

Hello,

I have my oath ceremony next week. From your experience, what is recommended - applying for passport right there or getting it from post office few days later?

If I am applying right after the ceremony, would they let me make a copy of the naturalization certificate before sending the original?

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!

[bg8]

You cannot apply at the oath ceremony location. You can apply in a postoffice or in any regionial passport center (if you are travelling in 2 weeks).

http://travel.state.gov/passport/about/agencies/agencies_913.html

[awesomecal]

My assumptions were, during the interview, they give you a grey envelope that contains passport application. You can fill out, bring the check and submit after the oath ceremony.

Is that true? Has anyone gone through the process? Please let me know. Thanks!

[angela_ann2002]

Hi! I think it depends where your Oath Taking ceremony, because here in LA Convention Center, you can apply right after the ceremony... but long lines, so what we did, we applied in our post office and less than a week we got our passports and the day we got our Naturalization Certificate.

[awesomecal]

I had my oath ceremony today. Beautiful location and just after the historic day. It was a memorable day.

There were booths that were accepting the passport application right after the oath was completed.