N400 Naturalization Interview Experience (Los Angeles, CA)

[murse.b28 7]

Hi all, 

I just had my naturalization interview today 04/24/2018, and thought of coming up here and share my experience you y'all. 

 

A little background info., I submitted my application online on 01/12/2018, received biometric notice on 01/13/2018 scheduled 01/31/2018 for fingerprint. Then 03/15/2018 received notice for an interview scheduled on 04/24/2018 at 09:45 am. 

Interview took place at DTLA's federal building. I took the metro to Civic Center/ Grand Park. From the train station, it is about a 10 mins walk. I arrived around 09:10 am and theres already a line forming to go through the security at the entrance. It took me about 15 mins for the security. After the security, I followed the sign to the elevator and went straight up to the 8th floor (listed on my appointment notice). 

 

I followed the sign to the assigned room on the 8th floor. Theres a security guard at the counter collecting the interview appointment notice, and he asked me to wait in the waiting room. The waiting room is pretty big, it has about 50 seats and a kids area to the side with some toys. A TV with news, some pictures on the wall and some plants in the room. There were about 10 people in the waiting room when I arrived, most of them are on their phone (there were no signs about cellphone use). 

 

I waited for about an hour and a half. During this time more people showed up and other people's name were called either via a speaker in the waiting room, or an interviewer will come to the waiting room. Around 11:00 am, my name was called, so I went up the to counter and followed the interviewer to his office. 

 

Before sitting down, he asked me to swear to tell the truth..etc. then he asked for my green card, drivers license, and since I'm under the age of 26, he also asked for my selective service registration. (He scanned all of them)

Then he said, "let's start with the test and get it over with." He had me read a sentence on a piece of paper, "Where is the White House?" then he passed me another piece of paper and asked me to write down "The White House is in Washington D.C. ". 

Civic Test: 

1. What is an amendment?

2. Who vetos the bill?

3. What is the capital of your state (California)?

4. What is the supreme law of the land?

5. Who did the US fight in WWII?

6. Who do we show loyalty to when we say the pledge of allegiance?

 

Then he said, "Triple-A, you passed, now we need to go over the information on the application." -- So we went through the address history (I lived in another state up until 09/2017), employment history,  travel history, and contact information.  I reminded him I plan on doing a name change  (I filled out the name change section on my online application) since he didn't ask me about it. So we went over the name change part, and he printed out name change forms for me to verify the information and sign. Then we moved on to the yes/no questions about crime and drugs, etc. They were all pretty straightforward.

 

At the end, he print out my N-652 (Interview Result) along with some oath ceremony information, and a booklet about US history and constitution, and told me its all done and wait for the oath ceremony notice in the mail, it should come within the next 60 days. 

- The whole interview process took about 50 mins. I walked out the federal building around 12:00.

 

I hope this post helps you with the preparation process, and let me know if you have any questions.  Good luck! 

 

[Sunnyland 639]

Congratulations for the approval! 

[murse.b28 7]

1 minute ago, Sunnyland said:

Congratulations for the approval! 

@Sunnyland Thank you! Are you also working on your N400? If so, good luck and feel free to ask questions! 

[CarlHamilton 252]

Congrats!  What kind of green card do (did) you have?  Employment?  Family?  Marriage?  Other?

[Dallas39 21]

Congratulations

[lierre 224]

Thank you so much for sharing! Congratulations!

 

This gives me joy!  And hope that I can just be done with this process within the next 5 months.

[Sunnyland 639]

22 hours ago, murse.b28 said:

@Sunnyland Thank you! Are you also working on your N400? If so, good luck and feel free to ask questions! 

 

 

Yes and next week is my interview/test! Did they give you back the GC after the interview? I understand that I will have to hand it when I have my oath ceremony, right?

[Hypnos 6,576]

Glad to see others moving along in the process. 

[murse.b28 7]

On 4/24/2018 at 4:42 PM, shomer said:

Congrats!  What kind of green card do (did) you have?  Employment?  Family?  Marriage?  Other?

@shomer  Thanks! I had EB5 green card.

 

[murse.b28 7]

50 minutes ago, Hypnos said:

Glad to see others moving along in the process. 

@hyponos   

 

5 hours ago, Sunnyland said:

 

 

Yes and next week is my interview/test! Did they give you back the GC after the interview? I understand that I will have to hand it when I have my oath ceremony, right?

@Sunnyland  Good luck! you got this!! and yes they returned my GC to me! 

10 hours ago, ivyanddan said:

Thank you so much for sharing! Congratulations!

 

This gives me joy!  And hope that I can just be done with this process within the next 5 months.

@ivyanddan  yup! glad I could help! good luck with the process!! 

23 hours ago, Dallas39 said:

Congratulations

@Dallas39   Thanks!  

[TBoneTX 45,291]

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