Citizenship

I applied for citizenship basing on 3 years marriage to a US citizen, I had my interview in July 2014, the IO told me to wait for a letter in a mail since she couldn't prove me so she sent my file to her supervisor to make a decision, its been 15 months now and I haven't heard a word from them. Should I apply for citizenship again at 5years or do I have the withdraw the previous application first or do I wait until they make a decision?

Hi! There,

I’d like to mention something about my case and get some experience from you that are similar to my case.
I applied for citizenship by filling N400 form on April 17, 2015 in San Jose- California and after three weeks got a letter for finger print on May 11, 2015. I did my finger print on that day but so far after 6 months I haven’t get any letter for interview date and I don’t know when may receive this letter. If anybody has experience about these types of cases, please let me know.

Thank you!

Hello everyone!
I have a couple of question about the experience that I am having with my N400 case.
I submitted my application late in July, got my letter of acceptance on August, got my fingers print appointment letter and date to be taken on the same month, I went and got the fingers print done in August 20's, and on September 1st on the web page says that the have scheduled an interview for my case, and that they will send me an appointment notice and that I need to follow intructions that will be in that letter, I call a week after because I couldn't find the keys of my mailbox to know if they have had send the interview notice letter to me so that way I figure out how to get it out of my mailbox, and they just said it hasn't been sent yet, so call again a couple of time in the same month and their answer was the same, and yesterday I call and have them get me a supervisor or somebody that can find out what happens with my appointment. They did so, and the supervisor told me that they made a mistake and that they still working on reviewing my documents, that they scheduled me for an interview by mistake and that the same day they change it in their system but not on the web page.

I don't have any idea of what is going on with my case.

Have any body had that experience before? Can anybody help me to understand this?

Thanks a lot!!

Hello everyone,
I am just wondering if anyone has had the same experience as I have.
I have filed my N400 in June, did finger prints in July. I filed for an expedite request earlier this month and it was approved, but I have received anything from USCIS yet except for the letter that says my expedite request was approved; not even my online status has changed yet!!
Has anyone gone through the same experience? How long did it take for USCIS to actually process the application?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I just did my fingerprints 09/10 and on 09/14 my status changed indicating that am in line for interview scheduling. Has anyone in Denver recently gone through the process? How long after fingerprints did you receive your interview letter?

Hi everyone,
I recently got my fingerprints taken on September 11 2015 in Rhode Island.

Does anyone know how long the whole process takes in RI?

has anyone applied or finished the process in RI recently?

How long does it usually taken between finger prints and interview in RI?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

- 4/10/15 Bio-metrics taken
- No Interview yet.

It's been more than 5 months already. Has anybody been waiting this period for N400 thro marriage? what should I do?

Thx,

WLB

So I wanted to share my experience so that you can see that there is still hope no matter what your situation. I received my green card in March 2010 based on a VAWA petition. In April 2011 I had an incident on my daughter’s school bus. In June 2011 the local sheriff came to my home and said that they had a warrant for my arrest, stemming from the said incident. I was mortified, but was advised that I can turn myself in later that night after I had my daughter sorted out. I did as instructed, was arrested, booked, fingerprinted, and mug shot taken. I spent the night in jail, saw a judge in the morning and bonded out on $5,000 bail.

I went to court in July 2011 and pled Nolo Contendere on a misdemeanor charge of disrupting a public school bus. I received 1 year non report probation, anger management and $100.00 fine.

Fast forward to March 2015. I decided that I wanted to file my N-400 for US citizenship, but was a bit skeptical because of the arrest and all. I was worried that they will consider it a crime of moral turpitude and that it would be grounds for denial. I contacted several attorneys who told me that I should wait at least five years after the arrest because that would show good moral character. Nevertheless, I decided to go ahead and file anyways.
March 23rd, 2015: Filed N-400 and included final disposition of the case (certified from the court), notice of probation completion (also certified from the court) and copies of my degrees. At that point I had a BS degree and two MS degrees and was working on a third MS and PhD at the same time. I figured that it wouldn’t hurt and could only help.

April 16th, 2015: We received your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization
April 27th, 2015: We scheduled you for a fingerprint appointment.
May 15th, 2015: Went to Atlanta GA support office to have fingerprints taken.
May 19th, 2015: We are scheduling your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, for an interview.
June 16th, 2015: We scheduled an interview for your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization.
July 21st, 2015: Attended interview and testing
August 26th, 2015: Your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, was placed in line for oath ceremony scheduling.
September 4th, 2015: Received notice to appear for oath ceremony on September 11th, 2015.

Interview: My officer was very nice. My appointment was at 2:30 pm and I got there around 1:50 pm. Checked in down stairs, then the clerk (happened to be a lady from my church) advised me to go to the third floor and wait to be called. It seemed like I was waiting forever (turned out to be about 10 minutes), but then an officer came out and called my name. He asked for my notice and instructed me to step inside of his office.

Once inside, I was asked to raise my left hand and say I do to the oath that he repeated. I was instructed to have a seat and he began reviewing the information that was on my application so that he can make any changes that needed to be made, and to see if anything had changed since I filed. He asked about my trips outside of the US and a couple other basic questions.

He then told me he would begin the testing and I was asked to read a sentence. I can’t quite remember, but I think that it was something to the effect of “Mexico is on the border of the United States.” I was then asked to write the same sentence on another sheet of paper.

I was then asked my six questions which he checked off as I answered:
1. What is the supreme law of the land?
2. What did the declaration of independence do?
3. How many us senators are there?
4. If the president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
5. What does the presidents’ cabinet do?
6. What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?

Whew, I aced the interview and the test. The immigration officer then congratulated me and said that I had passed the interview and the testing and that he was recommending me for U.S. citizenship. However, he said that he could not give me an oath letter right away because my file was huge (and it was), and needed to be looked at by his supervisor. He said that it was nothing to worry about, but of course I was still worried, thinking that they may change their minds because of the arrest. He did give me a letter stating that I had passed everything and was recommended for citizenship. The immigration officer was just so nice.

I was on pins and needles waiting for my letter, and just when I was not thinking about it because I figured that it would take a while, there it was in my mail box. So this is the end of my journey and next week this same time (and believe me, I am counting the seconds, minutes, hours and days…literally), I will be a US citizen, gods willing.
So I hope that this will give someone hope, no matter what.
Soon to be new US citizen.

N-400 was filed on February 08, 2015 in Chicago. I received a notice from
USCIS that they received my case February at the end of the month. Later on in March i received another notice to appear for biometrics on March 18 2015. Done with fingerprints. Today is September 2. 6 month and 24 days passed since I filed my application, and no interview date yet.

More to that, when checking my case status on USCIS website, the only update there is regarding my case is that my case was received on February 23, and that they sent me a notice on that. And that's it. Not even an update that they send me a biometrics letter, even though I completed that in March. I keep checking their website since May 2015, for an update, but everything is still the same from day one.

Also, when checking processing times for Chicago, it's showing that as of June 30 2015, they are working on January 23 applications. The chart has not been updated since than.

Perhaps someone else also in the same situation? Any suggestions, inputs will be greatly appreciated.

hello,

I filled my N400 application on 07/29. I received the letter of receipt a week after i mailed in the application on 08/07/15 however i have yet to receive anything for fingerprints. is it normal to take this long? While reading this forum i noticed everyone received their fingerprints notice fairly quickly and I'm starting to get worried. any advice/ insights will be greatly appreciated.

-application sent: 07/29/2015
-letter of receipt: 08/07/2015