Naturalization Interview Experience - Boston Field Office

[MiraW 58]

Hi everyone. I just had my naturalization interview today, maybe some fellow Bostonians would be interested. 

I filed online around mid October 2017, and they scheduled my interview to be on Jan 8, 2018. This is way faster than I expected. 

My interview was scheduled at 10:30 at JFK building, and I live in a suburb that's about 45 mins away. We left home around 9 and got stuck in traffic for a looooong time, I almost had a panic attack in the car lol.

My husband dropped me off at the building at 10:40 and then went to park the car. Long story short, it was 10:50 when I finally checked in for my interview at the front desk.

I was praying they'd still accept me and thank goodness the lady at the front desk said it should be ok. 

At about 11:05, an IO came out and called my name.

I went into his office, and he told me to put down my bags and then swore me in. 

After I sat down, he looked at me extremely seriously and said "You're late, this isn't good." I apologized and got slightly shaky, AHHHHH I wish I had taken the commuter rail T_T.

The officer seemed slightly annoyed with me but then sighed and said "Ok let's begin your interview."

He asked to see my green card, but not my passport. While clicking on his computer he started the civiv questions.

Ok I can't really remember what they are, but I got 2 wrong.... My nerves were killing me. 

The two I got wrong. 1. How many people are there in the House of Representatives? The correct answer is 435, but I don't know why I said 437. 

2. We elect our representatives for how many years? This is so easy, it's 2. My brain was jammed at that time for some reason and I said 6 (probably thinking about senators...)

Anyway I got the rest correct so we moved on to the next section.

He asked me to write down the sentence he read out, which was "Washington was the first president."

After I got that right, he started to warm up a little. He asked if I studied here because my English sounded native like, and I told him I got my Master's degree from xxxx University. 

He seemed to like that and said good school. Then he started asking me some of those yes or no security questions. I think he only asked about 5 questions.

After that he confirmed with me how I wanted to change my name, and asked me to sign the name change petition. We talked a little bit about how taking your husband's name isn't common in my home country. 

The whole interview was short, but still took approx. 30 mins I'd say. But most of the time it was just me sitting there listening to him type lol.

In the end, he asked if I got any extra documents for him. I gave him the deed of our house with both my husband's and my name, and then he asked for the 2016 tax return document. He took these 2 things and said "This is good enough." 

And then he typed some more and gave me a piece of paper saying I've been recommended for approval! 

Overall, it was a very easy interview. Just don't be late!!!

[judgenot 10]

5 minutes ago, MiraW said:

Hi everyone. I just had my naturalization interview today, maybe some fellow Bostonians would be interested. 

I filed online around mid October 2017, and they scheduled my interview to be on Jan 8, 2018. This is way faster than I expected. 

My interview was scheduled at 10:30 at JFK building, and I live in a suburb that's about 45 mins away. We left home around 9 and got stuck in traffic for a looooong time, I almost had a panic attack in the car lol.

My husband dropped me off at the building at 10:40 and then went to park the car. Long story short, it was 10:50 when I finally checked in for my interview at the front desk.

I was praying they'd still accept me and thank goodness the lady at the front desk said it should be ok. 

At about 11:05, an IO came out and called my name.

I went into his office, and he told me to put down my bags and then swore me in. 

After I sat down, he looked at me extremely seriously and said "You're late, this isn't good." I apologized and got slightly shaky, AHHHHH I wish I had taken the commuter rail T_T.

The officer seemed slightly annoyed with me but then sighed and said "Ok let's begin your interview."

He asked to see my green card, but not my passport. While clicking on his computer he started the civiv questions.

Ok I can't really remember what they are, but I got 2 wrong.... My nerves were killing me. 

The two I got wrong. 1. How many people are there in the House of Representatives? The correct answer is 435, but I don't know why I said 437. 

2. We elect our representatives for how many years? This is so easy, it's 2. My brain was jammed at that time for some reason and I said 6 (probably thinking about senators...)

Anyway I got the rest correct so we moved on to the next section.

He asked me to write down the sentence he read out, which was "Washington was the first president."

After I got that right, he started to warm up a little. He asked if I studied here because my English sounded native like, and I told him I got my Master's degree from xxxx University. 

He seemed to like that and said good school. Then he started asking me some of those yes or no security questions. I think he only asked about 5 questions.

After that he confirmed with me how I wanted to change my name, and asked me to sign the name change petition. We talked a little bit about how taking your husband's name isn't common in my home country. 

The whole interview was short, but still took approx. 30 mins I'd say. But most of the time it was just me sitting there listening to him type lol.

In the end, he asked if I got any extra documents for him. I gave him the deed of our house with both my husband's and my name, and then he asked for the 2016 tax return document. He took these 2 things and said "This is good enough." 

And then he typed some more and gave me a piece of paper saying I've been recommended for approval! 

Overall, it was a very easy interview. Just don't be late!!!

Thank you for the information. Good luck waiting for your Approval/Oath Ceremony.

 

 

[austex 42]

Congratulations on you citizenship. You are lucky that it went so fast, Dallas is such a long wait.

 

i can’t wait to do mine.

 

M.