N-400 Interview - sorry for the dumb question

[Jupiter07 12]

I mailed my 400 application today based on 3yrs' marriage to USC.

Does the 400 interview require both husband and wife? I don't have a problem with that. It's just that I was thinking only the naturalizing spouse is needed and gets interviewed. Until I read on this forum that they now require state IDs from both husband and wife. And then I started wondering do they just need the IDs or they need the USC to be present... Thanks for your feedback.

Edited November 16, 2011 by Jupiter07

[w8inglongtime 29]

I mailed my 400 application today based on 3yrs' marriage to USC.

Does the 400 interview require both husband and wife? I don't have a problem with that. It's just that I was thinking only the naturalizing spouse is needed and gets interviewed. Until I read on this forum that they now require state IDs from both husband and wife. And then I started wondering do they just need the IDs or they need the USC to be present... Thanks for your feedback.

I don't think they need your spouse to be present. I know they didn't ask me to bring my spouse adn haven't read from any of the many approved applicants on VJ saying they had to bring their spouses. Unless they changed the rules withing the past 2 months, I will say the answer is NO.

[adonis123 2]

Spouses are not supposed to attend. Nor does it say on the interview letter to bring spouse to the interview unlike AOS Interview letter. Would be going myself.

I missed the part where they ask you to bring Spouse ID card. I know you have to bring Spouse BirthCertificate, passport, naturalisation cert. but do you have to bring spouse ID also???

[Jupiter07 12]

Spouses are not supposed to attend. Nor does it say on the interview letter to bring spouse to the interview unlike AOS Interview letter. Would be going myself.

I missed the part where they ask you to bring Spouse ID card. I know you have to bring Spouse BirthCertificate, passport, naturalisation cert. but do you have to bring spouse ID also???

I wondered about that too and since I don't have an interview letter yet, I decided to ask. I will find the post and paste it here.

Edited November 16, 2011 by Jupiter07

[tdegrenier 1]

Just for my own thing and since I have been there for everything else, I will be going with my wife.

I will sit out in the waiting room with our son and she will know I am there for moral support

[aussie girl 1]

I didn't do the 3 yrs marriage to USC but instead the 5 year residency. During my interview today while waiting in the waiting room, I observed many numbers of spouses wanting to go in the interview with the naturalization candidate when they are called in. I don't know exactly what they were told as I only hear bits and pieces but I see them all walking back to their seats and the candidate being ushered in by the USCIS reviewer. They allowed interpreters to come to the interview though. I was near the door so I kind of hear and got the idea of what was happening. There was one spouse who asked to go in with the candidate who kind of looks old and lost. The USCIS reviewer told them both to wait outside for a little bit longer while she checks something. Then after 20 mins opened the door and called them both in.

I mailed my 400 application today based on 3yrs' marriage to USC.

Does the 400 interview require both husband and wife? I don't have a problem with that. It's just that I was thinking only the naturalizing spouse is needed and gets interviewed. Until I read on this forum that they now require state IDs from both husband and wife. And then I started wondering do they just need the IDs or they need the USC to be present... Thanks for your feedback.

[Jupiter07 12]

Thanks for the feedback - a resounding NO.

Edited November 16, 2011 by Jupiter07

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Naturalization is a very personal thing.

With very few exceptions, spouses are not permitted to be present during the interview.

[NickD 203]

As a natural born US citizen, only proof I needed to get a state ID, drivers' license, or even a federal US passport was my birth certificate. These three forms of identification are strictly secondary forms, so why in the heck would the USCIS want to see the secondary forms of ID. Is someone there smoking crack? Further proof of smoking crack of the USCIS is the only way my gals could get a state ID or drivers' license was with their green card. They didn't want to see their birth certificates, trusted the USCIS to look over all that stuff along with the FBI.

Its not easy to be nice when dealing with morons when they can't even trust their own green card it took them over a year to issue with tons of evidence to your identity. If your husband has to drive to work for the reason he can't go with you strictly for moral support, he will need his drivers' license. So what does he have to do, use that same birth certificate that is one form of REQUIRED evidence to get a state ID he will never use again!

Since the USCIS wants to make such a big deal about marriage, and they do go extremely overboard on this issue, feel very strongly the US citizen spouse should be able to attend, since all of that marriage evidence also has that persons name on it, but again dealing with a bunch of nitwits. Surprised during our AOS they didn't want to see all that evidence, but took the effort of getting letters from my register of deeds, banks, health insurance, etc., that neither my wife nor stepdaughter according the the American patriot act, another pile of ####### weren't permitted to have any of that because they didn't have SS cards, nor green cards, nor birth certificates that they were born in this country. But fortunately we had a good IO that knew all that stuff and didn't want to see those letters.

But they sure got all that for the I-751, as a matter of fact, due to how they were dragging their feet on the ten year cards, requested all updated proof. Not a new piece of evidence was provided with the N-400!

Again, as a matter of fact, not one bit of new information was provided on that N-400, all copied and pasted from the I-751, I-485, G-325a's, just had to update it for another year. USCIS reinvented the definition of redundancy. Wife said her file was over three inches thick that made me wonder, how could they lose that three times in our process!

Wife's co-worker asked me yesterday about applying for US citizenship, first question I asked her, how long did you have your green card. She said ten years. Easy, just send in the N-400, a check for $680.00, copy of both sides of your green card, and two passport photos of yourself they will never use since they are taking their own rotten photos now. Looked at me like I was nuts, because everyone else told her she needed a ton of that proof of marriage stuff. Just said, don't take my word for it, its all in the USCIS site.

In a way it was good I couldn't go in with her, sat down for hours explaining to her all of our evidence, in particular our tax system, most complicated in the world with over 1,025 different forms, not to mention our home tax assessment forms. But she did get an idea why we are broke, damned government is taking away all of our money.