May your American Spouse sit in with you on N400 Interview?

[zqt3344 21]

Curious

May your American spouse go in with you and sit with you while you take your N400 interview by USCIS officer?

ZQT3344

[jkelly07 120]

no .. thay can go to the embassy with you but not in the interview room,just you and the officer, so study all your test questions, have all your documents in order,

[jkelly07 120]

read the guides naturalization, citizenship

[jkelly07 120]

your approved, CONGRATULATIONS, JUST LOOKED AT YOUR TIME LINE

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Congratulations on passing your interview! Next stop the Oath Ceremony - enjoy !

For others who may be interested in the answer to your question - no, the American spouse is welcome to wait in the waiting room at the USCIS office but they are not allowed to be in the interview with you. When my name was called for my interview I made a point of asking my interviewer if my husband (and I indicated where he was sitting in the waiting room) could come with us and she said, 'No'. I have heard of one - only one - case where the husband did accompany his wife into the interview but I don't remember the circumstances involved.

Edited November 26, 2010 by Kathryn41

[CVB 18]

Congratulations on passing your interview! Next stop the Oath Ceremony - enjoy !

For others who may be interested in the answer to your question - no, the American spouse is welcome to wait in the waiting room at the USCIS office but they are not allowed to be in the interview with you. When my name was called for my interview I made a point of asking my interviewer if my husband (and I indicated where he was sitting in the waiting room) could come with us and she said, 'No'. I have heard of one - only one - case where the husband did accompany his wife into the interview but I don't remember the circumstances involved.

Yep... I had the same experience... I asked the IO when he called me... a firm NO was the answer.

Congratulations on passing the interview ... alone

Edited November 26, 2010 by CVB

[zqt3344 21]

Congratulations on passing your interview! Next stop the Oath Ceremony - enjoy !

For others who may be interested in the answer to your question - no, the American spouse is welcome to wait in the waiting room at the USCIS office but they are not allowed to be in the interview with you. When my name was called for my interview I made a point of asking my interviewer if my husband (and I indicated where he was sitting in the waiting room) could come with us and she said, 'No'. I have heard of one - only one - case where the husband did accompany his wife into the interview but I don't remember the circumstances involved.

Kathryn41,

Thank you for kind words, and help. Reason I ask if spouse was allowed in on the interview is that my husband was allowed to come in with me on my interview. I thought I was only one allowed in to the interview, but for whatever the reason, whatever my husband did or said to the interview officer she must have liked it or him because she told us "Thank you for being early and both of you come follow me to my office now" So we did follow her to the interview office and then she made us both stand and take oath with right hand to tell the whole truth and nothing but truth, and immediately she started going through my application and asking questions and actually we noticed she did not even go through all questions as we expected on the application. She even let my husband stay in room when she gave me the English test and the history or civics questions.

All she said to my husband was "Please no helping your wife you must be quiet" It was all over with in 5-10 minutes no longer, that fast then she handed over white form sheet of paper and said congratulations you are approved and will be getting letter in mail telling you when your oath ceremony will be since we do not allow same day or only have the oath ceremony once a week on Friday afternoon at federal courthouse downtown. And that was it, we got up and left with the paper of recommendation for approval. We arrived 30 minutes early and were out of office out in hall down elevator and outside building and it was 10 til the hour we were supposed to interview, it took at least 5-10 minutes to go through security a door and then walk to elevator and back down again so I estimate it only took 5-10 minutes on interview!

My husband was shocked, he also said he was worried when she asked both of us to follow her on interview and thought it was red flag, but I had no idea I just thought it was normal. Only after we got outside did he tell me that was not the way it was to happen but who cares it is over now! Thus I was wondering if any others had such a thing happen to them or if this was new procedure that USCIS just started now on interview process. Oh, and the interview officer asked us for proof of marriage and if we had pictures together with us, which we did in my purse so, otherwise we would not have brought the pictures because it did not say to do that in instructions when filing N400, anyway thought others might want to be able to know this in case it is new way USCIS is doing things so they are ready and not surprised.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Well - your husband was right - that is very unusual so I now know of two cases where the US spouse was allowed in to the interview. Regardless, you are right - it is over now and everything went very well. Maybe it is something the individual officers themselves decide. It actually seems kind of funny that she would ask for additional proof of your marriage while your husband was right with you at the interview , like you would pick up some stranger on the street to pretend to be your husband for something like this, hehehe.

Congratulations once again. I'm glad everything went well for you and hope you get your Oath ceremony soon. I know you'll both enjoy that very much - it really is special.

[NickD 202]

Felt I had a right to be with my wife since every bit of her marriage evidence also had my name on it and if there was any question about our evidence, should be there to explain it. Could have left for her test, but the answer was an extremely strong, NO!

Tis unusual that your IO let your spouse attend, if applying for the five year, no need for the spouse to attend, but if fraud is suspected in marriage, spouse should be there to defend themselves, USCIS is all screwed up on this.

Ha, during my wifes' test stage was a family and friends topic of discussion, practically anyone we discussed this with couldn't answer those 100 questions. Talking about natural born US citizens.