approve and oath same day

[Captain Oates 911]

Is there a list somewhere of which field offices actually do the approval and oath on the same day ?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Not that I am aware of. I do know that Atlanta will give a same day oath ceremony if your exam is in the morning and they are having an oath ceremony that afternoon. They seem to be scheduled every 2 weeks or so.

[Captain Oates 911]

Not that I am aware of. I do know that Atlanta will give a same day oath ceremony if your exam is in the morning and they are having an oath ceremony that afternoon. They seem to be scheduled every 2 weeks or so.

yes it would be interesting to see if it is small towns or large ones

I will probably be done in Yakima Washington in the desert

ps we have identical cats - the black and white one on the right

[Kathryn41 3,205]

yes it would be interesting to see if it is small towns or large ones

I will probably be done in Yakima Washington in the desert

ps we have identical cats - the black and white one on the right

Oh cool - my husband calls them the Holstein cats, hehehe!

[Captain Oates 911]

yes it would be interesting to see if it is small towns or large ones

I will probably be done in Yakima Washington in the desert

ps we have identical cats - the black and white one on the right

Oh cool - my husband calls them the Holstein cats, hehehe!

Brit term for a cow like that is a Friesian which aint far from Holstein - I used to date a German psychiatrist there so I know the area.

Ours I call the Orca! It waits til I need to do something intense on the computer and then shoves its whole body in my face on purpose for 10 minutes. As soon as I have finished important stuff, it slopes off and sleeps somewhere

It can't jump like the other tabby which has siamese legs and can jump 6 feet straight up.

I met a woman on the plane coming over from manchester and she had a cat under the seat - $35 it costs to fly it like that

It was very quiet - think she had slipped it a Micky Finn

I digress !

I am doing all my N400 stuff 11 months early and glad I did - some of the old obscure info is being dug out for the 4th time I reckon - including where I have lived with dates and all trips. We moved 5 times in 2 years so that's no fun

It's quite ironic that I have to swear against overthrowing the lawful government by illegal force seeing as that's how the U.S started and no event is more celebrated. I will practise not grinning for 2 months prior

Chances of getting a center which does approval and ceremony on the same day are tiny it seems

Edited August 19, 2009 by saywhat

[milimelo 4,479]

Wow saywhat, and I thought I was lurking on the naturalization forum way too early! My date comes up in March '10.

Seems as people like black and white cats! I have two - one is a real tuxedo - black coat with white paws and nose/mouth area then going down its neck, chest and to the tail - Tommy - his sister Sally is the opposite - all white except for couple of black dots and a black tail.

I will say though (and we had cats all the time), these two seem to be smarter than others - there's a demanding meow, a hungry meow and a play with me meow. They sure have their butler trained well!

[Captain Oates 911]

Wow saywhat, and I thought I was lurking on the naturalization forum way too early! My date comes up in March '10.

Seems as people like black and white cats! I have two - one is a real tuxedo - black coat with white paws and nose/mouth area then going down its neck, chest and to the tail - Tommy - his sister Sally is the opposite - all white except for couple of black dots and a black tail.

I will say though (and we had cats all the time), these two seem to be smarter than others - there's a demanding meow, a hungry meow and a play with me meow. They sure have their butler trained well!

Long legs tabby likes her rear haunches scratching and she sits in front of me and stares right into my eyes then raises her right hand (ok paw) and stretches it out towards me and spread those toes. Then when I stop scratching her she runs in front of me and throws herself on the floor so I cant pass. This happens 4 times in 12 paces

Wife not impressed and threatening to cite adultery on an emotional level

Women are ok but they can never quite achieve cathood

[NickD 202]

Going to a different state in many ways is like going to a different country, as a Wisconsinite tagged as a Packer fan in Minnesota where there are Viking fans, not that I give a darn about these spoiled brats earning huge paychecks by playing a game. But they have this large Viking stadium and like to keep applicants waiting for up to a year until the numbers build up where over a thousand before having an oath ceremony. They call their office St. Paul and not even located in St. Paul but in Bloomington, and for some strange reason, the entire northern section of Wisconsin is in the St. Paul district while many of the cities are far closer to Milwaukee.

Like our friend just a few miles from St. Louis but in Illinois has to run clear up to Chicago. They don't give us a choice. Thanks to Sen. Feingold, he arranged a special oath ceremony for just Wisconsinites, but still in Bloomington. People were there only 70 miles from Milwaukee, really a long drive for them. Our distance is about the same either way. But if it wasn't for this special oath ceremony, we probably still would be waiting for an oath ceremony and a very long one at that.

There is no consistency between one field office and another, almost like each is making there own rules, some odd 80 different field offices. We logged close to 4,000 miles of driving for immigration and immigration related matters. From the same government that is telling us to conserve on fuel. And because of that strange over 18 rule they imposed for a child, will have to log another 1,000 miles next year.

Talk about government efficiency, these two words do not fit together.

[Captain Oates 911]

Going to a different state in many ways is like going to a different country, as a Wisconsinite tagged as a Packer fan in Minnesota where there are Viking fans, not that I give a darn about these spoiled brats earning huge paychecks by playing a game. But they have this large Viking stadium and like to keep applicants waiting for up to a year until the numbers build up where over a thousand before having an oath ceremony. They call their office St. Paul and not even located in St. Paul but in Bloomington, and for some strange reason, the entire northern section of Wisconsin is in the St. Paul district while many of the cities are far closer to Milwaukee.

Like our friend just a few miles from St. Louis but in Illinois has to run clear up to Chicago. They don't give us a choice. Thanks to Sen. Feingold, he arranged a special oath ceremony for just Wisconsinites, but still in Bloomington. People were there only 70 miles from Milwaukee, really a long drive for them. Our distance is about the same either way. But if it wasn't for this special oath ceremony, we probably still would be waiting for an oath ceremony and a very long one at that.

There is no consistency between one field office and another, almost like each is making there own rules, some odd 80 different field offices. We logged close to 4,000 miles of driving for immigration and immigration related matters. From the same government that is telling us to conserve on fuel. And because of that strange over 18 rule they imposed for a child, will have to log another 1,000 miles next year.

Talk about government efficiency, these two words do not fit together.

Heck that is interesting

We started our visa journey in Hubertus, just north of Milwaukee and I am caged up here with a fervent packer fan who arranges our holidays around televised games !

I didn't know the field offices were so different

Is the field office allocated or can you choose ? For instance I am half way between Yakima nd Seattle and the USCIS website says my field office is Yakima

If it has to be whatever the website says, how do I find out whether Yakima is 4 months or 12 months ?

3 years into a 10 year green card, one might says what is the rush ? But it means putting our holidays/job changes and moving plans on hold while the process chugs on - so it is a major bind

[NickD 202]

They consistently send us to Milwaukee for biometrics and Bloomington for interviews, they told us where to go and when, we obeyed. If they sent us to LA for the oath ceremony, we would have showed up, just to get it over with.

USCIS Processing Time Information for our

Yakima WA Field Office

N400 Application for Naturalization January 31, 2009

Claims applications received for January 31, 2009 are currently being processed, while to send your N-400 to some outbox or service center, somebody determines where you will go. I believe you can request a change, but any change causes delays.

Our date was March 31, 2008 but according to the St. Paul field office processing dates, my wife would have never voted in the major election that year. But ended up being a USC with two months to spare, can't really trust those processing dates.

Was just the opposite with our I-751, California was processing I-751's in Sep of 2007 our application was in Mar of 2007 and here it was already in March of 2008 and not a word. Calls to the USCIS and ombudsman was worthless and let a few more months drag by. An attorney finally suggested I call my senator, wife finally got her ten year card around the mid of June of 2008, just a couple of weeks, June 27th when her one year extension would have expired. She was able to bring in her ten year card just a couple of weeks later, July 17, 2008 for her USC interview, with the delays in her oath ceremony did her oath September 3rd. She had her ten year card for about seven weeks with all that stress to get it when she had to turn it back in. She didn't want to give it up, LOL.

[Captain Oates 911]

They consistently send us to Milwaukee for biometrics and Bloomington for interviews, they told us where to go and when, we obeyed. If they sent us to LA for the oath ceremony, we would have showed up, just to get it over with.

USCIS Processing Time Information for our

Yakima WA Field Office

N400 Application for Naturalization January 31, 2009

Claims applications received for January 31, 2009 are currently being processed,

Wonder how accurate those times are

I know during the GC process they would give out times of say 8 months for things that everyone knew were taking months. The timelines were laughably innacurate

The only way would be to find someone who was processed by Yakima which is in the desert and a mule train only goes through town once every 2 years

We get cut off by snow here and the 2 available mountain passes can be blocked for days. I have visions of a judge with snow shoes plodding through the drifts to get me to sing the sparse strangled spanner