N-400 JUNE 2012 Filers

[Grashoppr 14]

LOL that's what folks keep saying - as much as I hope that's so, I'm not holding my breath.

[kerran 4]

Sitting here waiting for my name to be called is nerve-racking...

[coloso 6]

Hey Kerran I can't wait for you to finish keep us update brother... Tell us when you going into the office...

Athena29 what is your update? I haven't seen you on the list..

[No-Where-Man 147]

Kerran

Trust me, its so so easy and simple as long as your application straight forwad, its like filling an application and making sure you put the right information

Good luck and update us

Sitting here waiting for my name to be called is nerve-racking...

[coloso 6]

I haven't even study my stuff so well so I am a little concerned about it,, I haven't study in all this time, But I am passing that one it should be straight forward I hope...

Athena tell us how is your case. what is your last status ?

Edited October 15, 2012 by coloso

[Grashoppr 14]

I got a set of flash cards at a seminar in early June, shortly before I filed. Previously I'd looked at the same study material online (there's a PDF file on the USCIS website). Went over them a few times, put the ones I get stuck on, on top of the pile, but I haven't even looked at them since early July. Once I get my IL and have a date I'll study them again - most of them I know, but I'll concentrate on the ones that I trip on. I joked with the man that ran the seminar, that I have nightmares about my interview, and they ask ONLY the questions I have difficulty with! He laughed. He said the hardest part for most people is the English test (and spelling doesn't even count!) Given that English is my first language, that's the least of my concerns.

I'd be driving myself crazy if I'd been studying those cards for the last 108 days. I'm sure a refresher a week or so before the interview will fix me up.

[coloso 6]

Man i haven't even study since I didn't have any update I was a little distressed in my mind. So I have started to listen to the CD in my car. Yes that's a great way of studying, reviewing the ones that we are having difficulty with. I am going to do that thanks Grashopps!

[Grashoppr 14]

I like the cards, because if somebody else reads the questions, I don't see the 'multiple choice' answers. Since the actual test doesn't have multiple choices, I have to rely on my knowledge/memory. My partner read the cards to me - for most I blurted out the answer before the card was read (note to self: don't do that in the interview - it's rude!) That's how I'll cram before the interview, and I'll probably bring the cards with me to read over while I'm waiting - then I'll hand them off to someone else when I'm done

[athena29 0]

Thank you for inquiring about me...my last update was on 10-05-12 with a yellow letter to bring some additional documents to the (phantom) interview. I did expect it thou so it was not a big surprise.

I have just called USCIS this morning to see about opening a service request since I am on the 85th day of being in line. No such luck. However, next Monday, I will be past the magical 90 day mark and we will take it from there. After opening service request, USICS has 15 days to respond to me, can they again give me notice of 90 days?! At what point should i contact my (future) US rep?!

[coloso 6]

My notice in my last service request said I needed to wait for 90 days before I contacted them again. 13 days after I got my service request letter I got an update saying they just has put me inline for the interview then the next day they updated my status and it said I was schedule for an interview....

So it can varied, On Trackitt I saw many people who has been in line for 30 days other for one day. There was this user who got an update e-mail saying he has been put inline and then two days after he got another update saying he was schedule for an interview. I think since you guys have been inline for so long your interview letter should be close after receiving your Yellow Letter recently...

[Grashoppr 14]

Well you're still within normal processing time (as am I). My online status used to say if I hadn't received an IL within THIRTY days, to call - so I did when the 30 days had passed. Was given a reference number and told the DO would get back to me within 15 days. During that 15 days, the status changed to "If no notice is received within NINETY days..." Nobody ever got back to me. I didn't call again - didn't see a point since they'd changed the waiting period.

I'm still in the 90-day period, that ends around Oct. 27th. No point in my trying to call again before then. Hoping to get IL in the next 2 weeks remaining in that 90 days - if not, I guess I'll call. I'm sure they grow weary of us impatient types I'm at 108 days now... so I'm still within normal processing time. My DO is averaging 5.2 months nowadays, which is about 156 days (give or take - 30-day average to a month). So I have another 6 weeks + before I've gone over. 6 weeks versus the 3 1/2 months I've been waiting isn't all that bad And maybe it will happen sooner...

[coloso 6]

I have to say that making an infopass helps as well, I did an infopass and a service request and I think that combination plus they have never update me since june 28 which was my Bio. So go ahead and do a infopass.

[Grashoppr 14]

Nah - too soon for that. I'm sure there are people with legitimate reasons to schedule one, but I'm not one of them - yet. If another month passes, then yes - as I'll be having concerns about my driver's license expiring (can't renew it without either my citizenship or renewed GC or otherwise proof of legal residency). For now - the waiting is just a psychological inconvenience and nothing more.

[athena29 0]

Soon enough I will be beyond normal processions times for NYC local office, which is currently 5.7 weeks....InfoPass would be really an imposition for me, taking day off, traveling down to Manhattan, however I will reconsider if service request does not yield much. Overall this naturalization process has been and still is very disheartening compared to obtaining GC and removal of conditions.

[coloso 6]

Well I have done a Service request after I have done my info pass early september. That speed up the process. I didn't know if I were within the normal time to do a service request it was just done after I have explain them over and over.