Passport after Oath

[tim131 14]

Hi There,

What is the fastest way to get a passport after the oath and n-400 process, is it to get it expedited and prove that you'd be leaving soon, with flight confirmations - is this risky? don't want to pay for flights and not be able to get a passport in time.

Also, if you were to get your naturalization certificate - and then apply for a passport, but in the mean time traveled on a different passport, and then get a family member to post over the us passport so you can return on the passport, is that ok?

[Penguin_ie 5,995]

Most areas have a centralised passport facility where you can get a passport the same day with proof of flights.

US citizens are supposed to travel in and out of the country on their US passports. Additionally, do you REALLY want to send as important a document as a US passport by post?

Your otehr option is to delay the oath ceremony until after your travels.

[tim131 14]

Most areas have a centralised passport facility where you can get a passport the same day with proof of flights.

US citizens are supposed to travel in and out of the country on their US passports. Additionally, do you REALLY want to send as important a document as a US passport by post?

Your otehr option is to delay the oath ceremony until after your travels.

Thanks for your reply,

Well the reason for the citizenship (its for my wife) is that she can upgrade an F2A petition to an CR1 petition immediately after her oath, to save us waiting for much longer. When she gets her citizenship she will be flying back to Ireland (where she is a permanent resident - we got this done last time she was over to make travelling to and from much easier, with not being limited as to how long she can stay in the country) to be with me until I get my green card where we will then move to the states.

So the reason behind this all is to minimize time spent apart.

So we will look at getting a same day passport for her!!

Thanks for your response

Edit - the way I wrote that, it made it look as if she had spent a lot of time in Ireland, she has only be there once, where she spent about 3.5 months staying with me, we got her permanent residency as its easy to get in that way, and stay for as long as she wants. She still remained a resident of the US during this time, and has not traveled out of the US apart from that one time - so it wont effect her citizenship application, she meets all the residency requirements

Edited April 20, 2014 by tim131