2018 San Francisco filers

[littleitaly 9]

3 minutes ago, parampara said:

@littleitaly @DandelionSF @SFWolf @semonowe

 

3 minutes ago, parampara said:

@littleitaly @DandelionSF @SFWolf @semonowe

Seats are pre assigned. You will follow their instructions. Not sure how they assigned those seats. Mine was 1:15 and I got there around 1:10, waited 20mins to get in since there was a long line. Ceremony did not start till 2pm. Congrats! 

[parampara 15]

 

1 hour ago, littleitaly said:

 

Seats are pre assigned. You will follow their instructions. Not sure how they assigned those seats. Mine was 1:15 and I got there around 1:10, waited 20mins to get in since there was a long line. Ceremony did not start till 2pm. Congrats! 

 

Thank you @littleitaly

[gopinatht 11]

2 hours ago, littleitaly said:

 

Seats are pre assigned. You will follow their instructions. Not sure how they assigned those seats. Mine was 1:15 and I got there around 1:10, waited 20mins to get in since there was a long line. Ceremony did not start till 2pm. Congrats! 

@littleitaly Did anyone bring kids to their seats? I have a 6 yo kid and I was wondering if we can just bring them with us to the actual event (not the visitor's area) even if it was discouraged.

[gopinatht 11]

3 hours ago, mp24 said:

My interview is on Oct 11th, do you think I can request to get my Oath scheduled for Oct 16th or Oct 24th? 

You could try asking after the interviewer says they are going to recommend you for approval. But unless you can show a genuine need for urgency, I suspect they might not consider it. If you do have a genuine reason, you might also have to prove it with some evidence before they consider it.

[ramu2012 23]

My interview is tomorrow and I am going to ask to see if we can get it on the September Ceremony. I think the chances would be bleak but doesn't hurt to ask. 

[mp24 1]

16 hours ago, gopinatht said:

You could try asking after the interviewer says they are going to recommend you for approval. But unless you can show a genuine need for urgency, I suspect they might not consider it. If you do have a genuine reason, you might also have to prove it with some evidence before they consider it.

Good idea! Thank you for the suggestion!

11 hours ago, ramu2012 said:

My interview is tomorrow and I am going to ask to see if we can get it on the September Ceremony. I think the chances would be bleak but doesn't hurt to ask. 

Please share your experience with this after your interview. And all the best for the interview 

[ramu2012 23]

My wife and I had our interviews today. It was pretty straight forward. Both of us had separate interviews and the interviewers were very pleasant.

 

For my interview, we went over some of the questions that did not have answers to them (Somehow 🤷‍♂️) and then updated the file with the travel updates and time spent outside the US since we filed the application a year ago. We then jumped into the civics portion where he asked me 6 questions and then moved onto the english portion where I read a sentence and then wrote "Citizens can vote" on an iPad. I also told him about a traffic violation I received and that I was acquitted from it. After this, he said he was going to recommend me for approval and asked for my wife's A number so that our Oath could be scheduled together. 

 

For my wife, everything was the same, except she didn't have any traffic violations and did a name change. We carried the court decree with us and using that, the IO entered my wife's new name into the system. 

 

The online status for both of us now says approved and that Oath will be scheduled. 

[mp24 1]

6 minutes ago, ramu2012 said:

My wife and I had our interviews today. It was pretty straight forward. Both of us had separate interviews and the interviewers were very pleasant.

 

For my interview, we went over some of the questions that did not have answers to them (Somehow 🤷‍♂️) and then updated the file with the travel updates and time spent outside the US since we filed the application a year ago. We then jumped into the civics portion where he asked me 6 questions and then moved onto the english portion where I read a sentence and then wrote "Citizens can vote" on an iPad. I also told him about a traffic violation I received and that I was acquitted from it. After this, he said he was going to recommend me for approval and asked for my wife's A number so that our Oath could be scheduled together. 

 

For my wife, everything was the same, except she didn't have any traffic violations and did a name change. We carried the court decree with us and using that, the IO entered my wife's new name into the system. 

 

The online status for both of us now says approved and that Oath will be scheduled. 

That is great! Congratulations! Did you ask IO for getting  in Sept oath? 

 

Also, if you don't mind can you please share the process to change name? I want to change my name too but I heard if there is no judge present at the oath ceremony, you cannot do that. What did your wife do to change her name? Thanks!!

[Ann2935 1]

I have a couple of potentially very stupid questions. In between interview and oath, it's ok to use your green card, right? To board a plane for instance?

Also, I don't need to tell the officer at the ceremony about domestic travel? only international?

[gopinatht 11]

8 hours ago, Ann2935 said:

I have a couple of potentially very stupid questions. In between interview and oath, it's ok to use your green card, right? To board a plane for instance?

Yes, you are still a green card holder until your Oath. You are not yet a citizen until the oath.

 

[ramu2012 23]

17 hours ago, mp24 said:

That is great! Congratulations! Did you ask IO for getting  in Sept oath? 

 

Also, if you don't mind can you please share the process to change name? I want to change my name too but I heard if there is no judge present at the oath ceremony, you cannot do that. What did your wife do to change her name? Thanks!!

The IO said he couldn't control that. He didn't even know when the ceremony would be. 

For name change, we went through the court process. You could start here: https://www.courts.ca.gov/1051.htm

[DrGecko 7]

2 hours ago, ramu2012 said:

The IO said he couldn't control that. He didn't even know when the ceremony would be. 

For name change, we went through the court process. You could start here: https://www.courts.ca.gov/1051.htm

October 16 is the next date. I know because I was interviewed last week and got that.

 

Congrats, BTW.

[ramu2012 23]

5 minutes ago, DrGecko said:

October 16 is the next date. I know because I was interviewed last week and got that.

 

Congrats, BTW.

That's what I saw being reported here. I guess that's the one I would get too. Online status still says Oath is to be scheduled. I am guessing that takes some time. 

Congratulations to you as well! Are you in the morning ceremony or afternoon?

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

25 minutes ago, DrGecko said:

October 16 is the next date. I know because I was interviewed last week and got that.

 

Congrats, BTW.

 

19 minutes ago, ramu2012 said:

That's what I saw being reported here. I guess that's the one I would get too. Online status still says Oath is to be scheduled. I am guessing that takes some time. 

Congratulations to you as well! Are you in the morning ceremony or afternoon?

That's pretty encouraging, i seem to recall not too far back some people had to wait 2-3 months for oath.

Good luck re your date ramu - please keep us updated when you get the date.

[DrGecko 7]

@ramu2012, @SusieQQQ 

 

Thanks! I'm in the morning. So hopefully that means the afternoon ceremony is still wide open?

 

It only took a couple days for me to see the date online after my interview. I was pleasantly surprised.