What do we bring to the oat ceremony?

[NickD 203]

I can't believe you had to be there three hours early!!!

Guess they want to be just like the airlines, can recall, rushing into an airport, paying cash for the ticket, and hopping the plane just 15 minutes before it was scheduled to take off. Ha, even recall a Continental Champagne breakfast flight where the stewardess sat on my lap each of us had glasses and she kept them full with a couple of bottles. The ending, we were both way to drunk to do anything. Nowadays they jam you in a seat half the size of your body and want five bucks for a 1/2 ounce bag of peanuts and want to see what kind of underwear you are wearing.

And what's three hours anyway compared to waiting over five years? Gladly wait six hours, just to get it over with.

[sparkofcreation 0]

Yes, we were already there at the time of postings. They do the ceremony at the lovely hour of 8 am!

My husband's ceremony was at 10:00 am, but we still had to be there at 7:00! What time did you have to be there?

We just had to be there at 8. The judge came in at 9. I can't believe you had to be there three hours early!!!

Well they started check-in at 7:00, check-in finished at 9:00 (you'd think they could stagger it, have some people due to arrive at 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, etc.; but it did take them until 9:00 to get everyone checked in because they swore in over 450 people), then the new citizens had to sign their naturalization certificates and fill out their Social Security applications and get them checked over by the SSA people and pick up passport applications, everyone had to be in their seats at 9:45 and the ceremony started at 10:00 on the dot. Distribution of naturalization certificates started at 11:00 and finished at 12:15. Then back to Social Security, voter registration, and over to the post office to apply for a passport.

[tammiandtom 0]

Interesting. They didn't have social security apps. or passport apps. there, just the voter registration that people filled out after they got their certificate. Of course it was only 50 people also.