My oath Taking experience..

[maritoni 3]

My Oath taking experience today at 10:00 am August 12,2014..We left around 8:00 am from my sister inlaw's place and arrived at the USCIS office in Boise at around 9:00 am. A few minutes after Ten the ceremony began. It was explained to us how to answer the questions on the invitation. There are eight questions on the invitation, the same ones were also on the Application for Naturalization (N-400). On the invitation, however, they ask you whether anything has changed si...nce the interview (marriage, joining a party etc.). I had answered everything with No since nothing had changed for me since my interview.

After that was taken care of, we were asked to turn in our green cards. At 10:15 am the real ceremony started. All Immigration Officers were introduced and a short film about immigrants over many decades was shown. We were asked to stand and sing the national anthem of the USA.

After that, all countries of origin of the people who were at today’s ceremony were named and people had to get up when their country was mentioned. 51 people from 21 countries became citizens of the United States , 13 of them from Mexico and 3 of us from the Philippines.and don't remember where the rest are from:))

After that we were asked to stand again and swear the Oath of Allegiance. After that was done, that incredible sentence was finally said:

YOU ARE NOW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The feeling of that moment in indescribable.

Now everyone had two minutes to receive congratulations from friends and relatives. After that everyone in the hall swore the Pledge of Allegiance. A video was shown in which the president welcomed us as new US citizens. After that, the song “I am proud to be an American” with subtitles was shown on the screen. Then we had to stand in line again to receive our Certificate of Naturalization. Altogether the citizenship ceremony lasted about 1.5 hours.

I would like to Thank Visajourney for helping us through out our Visa journey,this place is very helpful and full of knowledgeable people and always willing to provide heaps of great infos.

[Messybrownhair 251]

Congrats Maritoni!