Citizenship

Hello Guyz, please how many time they have Oath ceremony in a month in Houston, tx and pls when is the next Oath ceremony date because i had my interview since 09/04/2018 and i was recommend for approval but online status stuck in interview schedule no update till now pls what can i do? pls advice

My status changed since Saturday and I still didn't got my interview letter .I called they said is on November 20th but I have no proof of that and I tried to see it online there is no way to to see it.what s hj would i do because when i told them on the phone to email me that appointment they said they cant di that so i have no idea what should i do?

I know ATL FO has always been slow to process. But didn't realize it was taking more than 10 months.

PD date 01/06/2017. FP 2/10/2018. My status still shows "Your application is being review".

Hello,

My N 400 interview scheduled in mid November and between the required documents they asked for my national passport or any related document to any entry to the United States, i have never traveled outside the states and my national passport misplaced can’t find it, my N 400 through asylum.
Any advice please any experience with the same issue?

Thank you

Is there anyone that file citizenship form Raleigh field office could share there experience. thanks much my time line for far
PD 10/03/2018. what questions was ask if you remember

Hey guys, well my mom did hers and grandmas and became a citizen in FL, Hialeah.
To my understanding everything was done in as little as 3 months, they did go to
An agent. On my side i Live in Ky and she insisted for me to do it with this agent
Even though i was going to do it on my own because I know how to do paperwork
And I didn't want to pay $65 for nothing that i could do on my own, but she insisted so
Much i did.....and happy I did.
There's a couple things i wouldn't have done or seen, she recommended me to get a background check on my own...which i had to travel for a total of 2 hrs to get that paper, she also saw something wrong
With the only trip I have made in the last 5 yrs, which if i had gone to the interview and had been asked
I wouldn't have known what to say because the stamp said i was in that country on April, and i didn't even
Go till June.......

So far:

Application sent: Oct 6 2018
Application received: Oct 11 2018
Scheduled Biometrics: Oct 13 3018
Biometrics Appointment: Nov 2 2018

Will update

Had interview in Dallas office on 08/21/2018.

On 10/12/2018, online status changed to "We scheduled your oath ceremony for Receipt Number xxx. We sent a notice with the date, time, and location of your oath ceremony to the address you gave us. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not receive your notice by November 11, 2018, please go to www.uscis.gov/e-request to request a copy of the notice. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address."

However, I have not received the letter yet as of today. Is it lost in the mail?

How long does it take to receive the oath letter from Dallas office after status changed to "Oath Ceremony Notice Was Mailed"? Thanks a lot.

Applied online

09/03/18 priority date
09/07/18 biometrics appointment notification
09/24/18 biometrics appointment & reviewed

Anyone from the Boston area got recent biometrics to interview timelines?

As a side note, I got my gc through marriage, applied sep 17 to have conditions removed. Based upon normal processing times was not expecting this to be complete until April 19, thought it may be pulled forward, was surprised when letter and new gc without conditions, dropped through letterbox about a month after I applied for n400. The status of the conditions removal case didn't/hasn't changed to reflect this.

My wife and I had our interviews today. Here are our experiences.

Both had the same appointment time. We arrived 30 minutes early. We went in through security and they pointed us to the large room on the right. We registered with the receptionist, they took our appointment letter and they asked us to take a sit. Within about 5 minutes we were called one after the other one and they returned our interview letter with a number on top, and they asked us to sit by the double doors at the end of the room. We waited there 25 or so minutes.

I was called first. It was a female officer. She was very pleasant. I made small talk as we walked through the corridor maze, and she replied to the small talk. We went into her office, she asked me to stand up and raise my right hand placed me under oath. She then clicked away in her computer and had a fairly large paper file in front of her. She moved a lot of papers around and got organized, and then asked me to place both index fingers, one at a time, in a scanner, and then took my picture.

She then said let's take the tests out of the way. She read 6 questions from her computer and typed the answers I gave her. She then handed me a paper with a simple statement, I think it was "which state has the most people", which I read back to her, and then another paper where she asked me to write, using a pen, "California has the most people". The questions she asked me were:
1. Name one freedom from the first amendment.
2. Name one branch in the government
3. Who is in Charge of the executive
4. One state senator
5. Who replaces the president if he can't do his job
6. Why did the colonists come to America

Then she asked me if I had my 2017 tax return. I gave it to her, and told her I also had the tax transcripts from the IRS. She gave me back the tax return and kept the transcripts for the last 5 years.

She then went through the entire application putting a check mark against every answer and information (DOB, address, etc). Then went to the Y/N questions and same thing. When we got to the "have you ever been arrested or cited" here is where it got a bit anxious. I had selected Yes, as I have traffic tickets, and also put yes if I have been charged and if I had been guilty. But I confirmed that it was only tickets. Here she said that I wasn't supposed to say Yes if it was only tickets, and I told her that I was just following the instructions to the letter and that since the tickets are called traffic "citations", thats why I answered yes. She leaned back in her chair and look up, still very pleasantly, and said "I see why you would answer yes". At first she changed the answer on my form, but then she revered to my previous answer and instead wrote a note explaining why I had said yes and that in her opinion it was not a problem. Before finishing her note she asked whether I ever had a DUI or anything like it, to which I said no.

Then we got to the travel question, she asked me if I travel a lot because of work and I said yes. And that a lot of it is international (in the application a year ago I listed 129 days outside of US in 29 trips). I told her that I had brought a new list of travel, since I have traveled more since filing the application. My total as of today was 41 trips and 177 days abroad. Here again, she was a bit confused. She said, "I will add this to your file, but I won't count the new days against you" or something like that.

She then started to do a lot of printing and things, and at the end she gave me a paper that said that a decision can't be made. I asked if there was something wrong and she said no, that she was recommending me for approval, but that a supervisor needs to review her recommendation, and that it could be quick or it could take 2 weeks. I was disappointed but she said congratulations and was very positive. She escorted me out. The whole thing took about 25 minutes.

Outside, I found my wife, still waiting to be called. I was surprised. At that point she told me that she had seen a lot of people leaving their interview, being asked to wait outside, and being called again to give them their oath notice for this coming Friday at 10:30am. At that point I was even more disappointed, but then remembered how long I have waited to get here, and sucked it up.

About 15 minutes later (in total about 50 minutes after the appointment time) my wife was called. She was in and out in about 15 minutes. As soon as she walked in, the Officer asked her if she had a copy of my original i-140. My wife didn't have it, and I didn't have it. She said that it was the only thing missing in her file. So my wife said that I was waiting outside and that maybe I had it. So she did the test and the picture and the Y/N and such, and they came together outside to ask me about the i-140. I said I didn't have it, but she asked for the name of the officer who had interviewed me, so that she could get it from her. Gave her the name, she said she knew her well and would get it directly and then issue an approval.

My wife later told me that the Officer said that if I was outside waiting for my Oath notice then she would just walk over to get the file. But then since I need to wait for supervisor approval, then she just said she would mail her the approval. This also was a bit disappointing, but it is what it is.

All in all a good experience. My takeaway is that either I drew a junior officer who has to get everything approved by her supervisor, or given the changes and notes to my application that the officer made, those need to be reviewed by a supervisor. I am leaning to her being junior, as she really was not fully experience on the subjects of travel days and ticket citation. I also don't really understand why the i-140 has any bearing here, but who knows.

I hope this helps someone out there. I tried to write as much as I can remember as so many others have been so helpful to me in this forum. Keep the faith. Be patient. Your time is coming. God Bless.

MY STATE HAS 5-9 CEREMONIES EVERY MONTH AND 4-5 OF THEM SAYSAT COURTHUSE.

DOES THAT MEAN ITS A JUDICIAL CEREMONY?

HOW DO U KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BTW A JUDICIAL & AN ADMINISTRATIVE CEREMONY?

 IT DOESN'T SAY ON MY STATE CEREMONY CALENDAR. IT ONLY SAYS WHERE.
I AM WAITING FOR A JUDICIAL CEREMONY BC I HAD A NAME CHANGE ITS BEEN 5 WEEKS NOW BUT IDK IF THE NEXT ONE IS A JUDICIAL SINCE IT ONLY SAYS NOV 7TH COURTHOUSE ROOM 15. HELPPPPPP.....