N-400 JUNE 2012 Filers

[Ilarrotta 2]

Hello All!

Finally this Wednesday I will have my Oath Ceremony! I am so excited however my husband is more excited than I am! He is beyond excited that I am becoming a citizen which for him is a big deal. I had a question for whoever has gone through the process. What papers do I have to provide? Will they check my status and all that again? I just would like to be prepared.

Also, I currently have dual citizenship: Colombian and Venezuelan. Will they take them both away from me? Or only one? How many citizenships can a US citizen have?

Thank you all and good luck to those still waiting!

[BigDaddy28 228]

Hello All!

Finally this Wednesday I will have my Oath Ceremony! I am so excited however my husband is more excited than I am! He is beyond excited that I am becoming a citizen which for him is a big deal. I had a question for whoever has gone through the process. What papers do I have to provide? Will they check my status and all that again? I just would like to be prepared.

Also, I currently have dual citizenship: Colombian and Venezuelan. Will they take them both away from me? Or only one? How many citizenships can a US citizen have?

Thank you all and good luck to those still waiting!

The US does not recognize dual citizenship, so you can have even 10 citizenships beside the US citizenship. However you have to check with Venezuela and Colombia about their citizenship laws. They might not approve being a citizen with the US. Since you are already a dual citizen and both of them didn't do nothing, I suspect that they will make you renounce one of them. The best thing is to call the embassies here in the US if they ones here and ask them about it. Good luck

[BigDaddy28 228]

Hello All!

Finally this Wednesday I will have my Oath Ceremony! I am so excited however my husband is more excited than I am! He is beyond excited that I am becoming a citizen which for him is a big deal. I had a question for whoever has gone through the process. What papers do I have to provide? Will they check my status and all that again? I just would like to be prepared.

Also, I currently have dual citizenship: Colombian and Venezuelan. Will they take them both away from me? Or only one? How many citizenships can a US citizen have?

Thank you all and good luck to those still waiting!

Alright I read about both countries and you won't loose none of them. You will be having triple citizenship, that's interesting.

[coloso 6]

I wish I can have triple citizenship...

[BigDaddy28 228]

I wish I can have triple citizenship...

my great grandfather is french, and I'm supposed to have dual citizenships too but long story make it short, my grandmother didn't get the french citizenship from her father.

[Wilerao59 10]

Hello All!

Finally this Wednesday I will have my Oath Ceremony! I am so excited however my husband is more excited than I am! He is beyond excited that I am becoming a citizen which for him is a big deal. I had a question for whoever has gone through the process. What papers do I have to provide? Will they check my status and all that again? I just would like to be prepared.

Also, I currently have dual citizenship: Colombian and Venezuelan. Will they take them both away from me? Or only one? How many citizenships can a US citizen have?

Thank you all and good luck to those still waiting!

You do not need to provide any paper at the time of taking oath except your green card and Oath notice UNLESS there was some changes in your situation after the interview date and prior to coming for the Oath, such as if you get divorced, get arrested/charged or something of these type which would be mentioned in the back of your Oath notice. If so, then you will not be allowed to take oath and another interview will be scheduled for you. Other than this, nothing fancy about the Oath process. Pretty much the same process, meaning you will need to be there on time, surrendering your green card, making sure that all the info on your naturalization certificate is correct, waiting for everyone to be get over with this same process over there and then judge would come to give a speech and then you take Oath along with everyone and would collect your naturalization certificate and you are done.

You will not loose any citizenship you already have. It's true that United States doesn't recognize dual citizenship, which means- you can have as many as citizenship prior to becoming a US citizen but not after becoming a US citizen, as I'm told by many US Immigration officers. I matter of fact many people have three citizenship prior to being a US Citizen. I myself holding triple citizenship (Canadian and British along with US Citizenship), and don't have any problem while entering and existing the United States.

The timeline for your case and my wife's case is similar as my wife filed her application for naturalization on June 14, 2012 which was a day later of yours and she got approved last Friday but no Oath letter yet. Given the timeline for N-400 in NYC, the progress in her case and timeline is good. In West Coast, many people get over within 3 months of filing their application but this is not the case especially in NYC.

Good luck....

Edited November 12, 2012 by Wilerao59

[coloso 6]

I had a couple of jury duties appoint I cancel them.There was one I didn't go because I undertood I am not a US citizen how is working on the interview?

[Grashoppr 14]

How did you get summoned for jury duty if you aren't a citizen yet? I thought when you register to vote, you get registered for jury duty... am I wrong about that?

[Wilerao59 10]

How did you get summoned for jury duty if you aren't a citizen yet? I thought when you register to vote, you get registered for jury duty... am I wrong about that?

Anyone could get a letter (not a summon though) from a court relating to jury duty. A court obtains names and addresses of people from various govt. agencies, such as Department of Motor Vehicle, Social Security administration or any other State, City and Federal agency. Getting that letter from the court relating to jury duty doesn't mean one must be serving as a juror; rather court wants to keep you in their database as a possible juror in the future if they need but obviously after verifying you are eligible to be a juror. They don't know who is a US Citizen and who is not by just the name and address. So, unless a person wouldn't notify them about not being a US citizen after receiving that letter, they would presume that person to be a US Citizen and might hold that person for contempt of court for not responding to that letter within permitted time. That said, one doesn't get registered to serve in a jury duty (unlike registering to vote); rather courts get the name and address of people from a list which they get from various govt. agencies. So, anyone could get that court letter related to jury duty if a person has ever dealt with any kind of govt. agency, but only US citizens would be asked to serve on a jury duty after verification of their US Citizenship.

Edited November 13, 2012 by Wilerao59

[coloso 6]

Thank you for the heads up, I was intrigued, because even in two different states I have gotten that letter. even when I moved from the first state I lived in. I still got a letter...

Any how thanks for the heads up.

[Grashoppr 14]

Thanks for the clarification. In Canada, when you register to vote, you also get entered into the jury pool.

And, someone I know who just became a citizen, and register to vote, also got her first summons to juror - that is why I thought they were connected.

I've been here 12 1/2 years (same address) never have received anything from the court system about jury duty or similar.

[coloso 6]

a couple of day for my interview and I still need to review tons of things for the test.. I don't find the senator, representative of the state of new york. There are couple of questions I need to know about some representatives. Does any body know that? I looked in google but I am not sure about that. I know the governor Andrew Cuomo.

[shashar 0]

a couple of day for my interview and I still need to review tons of things for the test.. I don't find the senator, representative of the state of new york. There are couple of questions I need to know about some representatives. Does any body know that? I looked in google but I am not sure about that. I know the governor Andrew Cuomo.

I hope you found the answers to your questions by now,if not here we go,,,

The two senators for the state of New York are Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand.

While the representative is Gary Ackerman.

Goodluck at your interview.

[Wilerao59 10]

Thanks for the clarification. In Canada, when you register to vote, you also get entered into the jury pool.

And, someone I know who just became a citizen, and register to vote, also got her first summons to juror - that is why I thought they were connected.

I've been here 12 1/2 years (same address) never have received anything from the court system about jury duty or similar.

As I said that there is no any process of registering to serving in a jury duty or in other words-people in the United States don't make a choice of whether or not they can or can not serve in a Jury duty; rather courts randomly pick up their name from a list of database that they receive from various govt. agencies. Once someone receives that letter, s/he must need to notify the correct requested information to the court within permitted time.

Even in United States, some govt. officials are seen to be providing Voter Registration Form in the court house where Oath for citizenship is being taken, but not at all places though. And once someone is registered to Vote, then a person's name is placed in govt. database for a possible juror. But registering to vote is not mandatory here in the United States nor one could automatically be entered in Jury pool by virtue of registering to vote.

I've lived for 22 years at the same address and never received any court letter about Jury duty until recently despite of being a US citizen for many years. While on the other hand, I know a lady who is in this country only for 9 months and recently became a LPR but she has already received 3 letters from the court relating to Jury duty. So it's about randomly picking up names by the system.

[Grashoppr 14]

I understand - I was just explaining where my idea about that came from. I do appreciate the clarification though, as I'm sure other readers do too