N-400 Interview Experience

[MdAngie 0]

Hello All,

I want to share my experience today at my N-400 interview. My interview was at 7:30AM. Went in at 8:30AM. I swear to tell the truth and sat down. The IO started going over my application and asked me for my passport and my GC. I still have my condotional card because i never received my permanent one. i had my I-751 interview last year in Nov and never received the card. In Jan i received my N-400 interview notification.

Now i am bit down because on today's interview the OI told me that when i had my I-751 interview with my husband, that IO did not change my status nor closed the case so it was still pending. I believe this is an USCIS mistake. I passed the test and gave me a notice that i had passed the test but checked the check box where it said " A decision cannot be made at this time". The IO told me she was going to talk to the previous IO to close my I751. Then she told me to wait outside and after waiting for 10 mins, she came and told me to just got home and i should receive a decision on the mail within a month.

Since i never received my perm card, i still got a stamp on my passport. I am traveling to Europe in May for vacation. What do i do? Info path appt? I am lost here. I have passed all interview but still waiting... please advise!

[Gboree 67]

Wait and see what the decision might be.

[NickD 203]

Your fault, USCIS fault, doesn't make any difference, we still pay the price. All you can do now is wait those 30 days, if nothing, contact your senators office for help.

Ironically, many here on this board received their certificate without ever seeing their ten year cards. Wife just received hers days before her interview because the wait was longer back then. Only to have to give it back.

One could thing about these delays, does make getting your certificate more joyful;

How much time did they give you on your I-551 stamp, some are very optimistic that their USCIS is very efficient and only give you a couple of weeks. Then you have to go back and get another one.

[MdAngie 0]

Your fault, USCIS fault, doesn't make any difference, we still pay the price. All you can do now is wait those 30 days, if nothing, contact your senators office for help.

Ironically, many here on this board received their certificate without ever seeing their ten year cards. Wife just received hers days before her interview because the wait was longer back then. Only to have to give it back.

One could thing about these delays, does make getting your certificate more joyful;

How much time did they give you on your I-551 stamp, some are very optimistic that their USCIS is very efficient and only give you a couple of weeks. Then you have to go back and get another one.

i have my 1st stamp for one year but it expires next month. I made an info path appt to see whats going on. Going next week. The last thing i need is to go out of status. Thank you for ur advise.

[NickD 203]

First time I ever heard about that I-751 was after our 13 month grilling in the AOS stage, but was told all people have to go through that ROC stage if married less than 24 months. Ironically, we were never called in for an I-751 interview. But that stage really dragged on like yours. What I heard, is that they just do these interviews at random unless something about your marriage raised a red flag.

USCIS sure doesn't operate like the FBI, in my military days, I never asked for a top secret clearance, but said I had to have one, so they sent two FBI agents to my town spending the full day talking to all of my old neighbors, checking the high school I attended, etc. Learned about this later. So with delays in our ROC, wrote a letter to the USCIS inviting them to spend a week or longer with us, they never came. We don't have anything to hide.

Wife received quite a grilling at her citizenship interview, over 45 minutes long, but did pass, but then her application was misplaced. Also found it weird that I was very much a part of this process during both the AOS and ROC stages, but was totally ignored during the naturalization stage even though every bit of evidence also had my name on it.

USCIS is a weird agency, completely contradictory to the American way of life where the burden of proof lies on our shoulders for the entire process. Feel it also helps to have training in dealing with mentally incapacitated people. Was in mental institutions where the people I met were more sane than what I met at the USCIS.

[TBoneTX 45,308]

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