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Oath Taken!!
Hi!
Just wanted to share my experience with you all.
I was approved for my citizenship in November and I had my oath ceremony today. It was scheduled at the LA Covention Center at 7:40 a.m. I live in Orange County so I left at 6:30 to make sure I arrived early and find parking. I entered the address on one of my "trusted" navigation apps and followed the directions. It seemed like I was right on time. Then I realized it was taking me on a different route than I usually am familiar with; but I continued to follow it anyways thinking it was guiding me away from the usual LA traffic. Then it told me that I had arrived at my destination... only to find I was in/near Long Beach and not Downtown LA!!! Same address but different location.. the time was 7:15 a.m.
I immediately used the default iPhone map and entered LACC and it said estimate time to my destination was 8:00 a.m! I drove like a maniac until I hit heavy heavy traffic. I thought I was going to chuck my phone out the window. While stuck in traffic I googled what happens if you're late to the ceremony and most of the sites I looked at said they'll reschedule. Most people who missed their ceremony were because of traffic as well. They didn't even try to make it to the location. However, I just decided to go there anyways to see my luck. I got off the freeway at 8:20. I found signs for citizenship parking and decided to enter. To my surprise, there were other cars entering too! I told the parking attendant I was late and he assured me that I wasn't the only one. I parked my car, ran into the convention center and saw that there were soooooo many people just walking in!
Anyhow, it turns out they started closing the doors around 9:00. I'm assuming they expected people to be late. There were over 2000 people getting sworn in! It was amazing to see so many people from around the world come together with one dream.
Now, to the process of being sworn in. You have to have your ceremony appointment letter with you and greencard. You check in twice. They have you sit, have a judge swear you in, someone sings the star spangled banner, and they have you watch 2 videos. Then they have rows of people take turns getting their certificate. Make sure the information on your certificate is accurate before you leave. If there's an error, tell them immediately, but if everything is fine, congratulations, you are officially a citizen of the US!! Yay!!
So that was my experience. I'm hoping everyone's applications goes smoothly! Wishing everyone the best! Good luck!!
Just wanted to share my experience with you all.
I was approved for my citizenship in November and I had my oath ceremony today. It was scheduled at the LA Covention Center at 7:40 a.m. I live in Orange County so I left at 6:30 to make sure I arrived early and find parking. I entered the address on one of my "trusted" navigation apps and followed the directions. It seemed like I was right on time. Then I realized it was taking me on a different route than I usually am familiar with; but I continued to follow it anyways thinking it was guiding me away from the usual LA traffic. Then it told me that I had arrived at my destination... only to find I was in/near Long Beach and not Downtown LA!!! Same address but different location.. the time was 7:15 a.m.
I immediately used the default iPhone map and entered LACC and it said estimate time to my destination was 8:00 a.m! I drove like a maniac until I hit heavy heavy traffic. I thought I was going to chuck my phone out the window. While stuck in traffic I googled what happens if you're late to the ceremony and most of the sites I looked at said they'll reschedule. Most people who missed their ceremony were because of traffic as well. They didn't even try to make it to the location. However, I just decided to go there anyways to see my luck. I got off the freeway at 8:20. I found signs for citizenship parking and decided to enter. To my surprise, there were other cars entering too! I told the parking attendant I was late and he assured me that I wasn't the only one. I parked my car, ran into the convention center and saw that there were soooooo many people just walking in!
Anyhow, it turns out they started closing the doors around 9:00. I'm assuming they expected people to be late. There were over 2000 people getting sworn in! It was amazing to see so many people from around the world come together with one dream.
Now, to the process of being sworn in. You have to have your ceremony appointment letter with you and greencard. You check in twice. They have you sit, have a judge swear you in, someone sings the star spangled banner, and they have you watch 2 videos. Then they have rows of people take turns getting their certificate. Make sure the information on your certificate is accurate before you leave. If there's an error, tell them immediately, but if everything is fine, congratulations, you are officially a citizen of the US!! Yay!!
So that was my experience. I'm hoping everyone's applications goes smoothly! Wishing everyone the best! Good luck!!
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