N-400 DECEMBER 2018 filers

[gregcrs2 1,778]

1 hour ago, Inesmlm said:

Leo7777,

 

its not the first time that your comments are anything but unhelpful. I’m pretty sure you just went through a tough situation with your wife obtaining a passport to fly to her home country. 

 

I really don’t need to justify anything to you especially when you’re criticizing instead of helping. I am pretty sure I’m not the first person going through this, but since you’re being such a helper here it is: 

 

besides not visiting my family in years, I have a parent who has terminal cancer and was only able to schedule my flight for that time. 

Is that enough for you to contain your unnecessary opinion?? 

 

If you don’t have anything helpful to suggest than say nothing at all. 

 

 

It's a VJ TOS violation to tell someone not to comment regardless of how you word it.  

[gregcrs2 1,778]

1 hour ago, Inesmlm said:

Besides, let me add: when I booked my flight 2.5 months ago I had no clue of the interview date and with and estimate of a complete case in January of 2020. I guess that it has to be too much luck or not that the oath ceremony would fall on the morning of my flight. 

My job is also not flexible and neither is someone’s sickness. Life happens and these situations can happen as well. 

 

I thought your process / your wife’s was complete, so if you’re sticking around this forum you could at least try helping others, otherwise move on and leave the answer to someone else. 

My understanding is it will take 2-3 weeks to get a US passport at an overseas US embassy...if everything goes smoothly.  You'll probably need 2 visits to the embassy.  Once to provide all documentation and once to pick up your passport.    

[Inesmlm 13]

Gregcrs2,

 

I didn’t tell anyone not to comment but rather be helpful instead of giving an empty opinion that is in no way contributing to what the purpose of this forum is about. 

 

Do you think it’s okay to mock someone when someone is asking for help? In fact I would wait for him, out of anyone else here to be helpful since he just went through a situation that he’s now criticizing. 

 

So, updating my own initial question to ANYONE who needs guidance on this particular situation, I ended up getting an answer that it is indeed possible to have the passport done overseas at a US embassy, and like you mention Gregcrs2, it will take around 2-3 weeks to obtain it and there’s no expedite service outside the US. 

[gregcrs2 1,778]

11 minutes ago, Inesmlm said:

Gregcrs2,

 

I didn’t tell anyone not to comment but rather be helpful instead of giving an empty opinion that is in no way contributing to what the purpose of this forum is about. 

 

Do you think it’s okay to mock someone when someone is asking for help? In fact I would wait for him, out of anyone else here to be helpful since he just went through a situation that he’s now criticizing. 

 

So, updating my own initial question to ANYONE who needs guidance on this particular situation, I ended up getting an answer that it is indeed possible to have the passport done overseas at a US embassy, and like you mention Gregcrs2, it will take around 2-3 weeks to obtain it and there’s no expedite service outside the US. 

https://pt.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/passports/first-time-passport-applicants/

 

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[Inesmlm 13]

9 hours ago, Leo7777 said:

Real question is why on earth did you buy ticket before completing the whole process of citizenship interview,  oath ceremony and obtaining USA passport.

After all the thousands of documents you had to deal with and waiting for years and years to obtain citizenship . . . you now want to go through the unnecessary additional nightmare of trying to travel at same time you need to obtain USA passport ?????

 

Fair enough, I apologize. Again I didn’t mean to instruct anyone not to answer but rather give an helpful answer. 

 

This doesn’t seem or sound like a constructive post. 

 

 

 

Edited May 25, 2019 by Inesmlm

[Amhara 460]

@Inesmlm

I sympathize with you.  But thanks for letting us know about the embassy option to get the US Passport at the embassy.  I hope you will be there long enough to be able to get it before heading back!  Sometimes, the US Embassy has an email address to ask and confirm these questions.  But I am glad you posted here, but one of us may need this info in the future!

[Inesmlm 13]

10 minutes ago, Amhara said:

@Inesmlm

I sympathize with you.  But thanks for letting us know about the embassy option to get the US Passport at the embassy.  I hope you will be there long enough to be able to get it before heading back!  Sometimes, the US Embassy has an email address to ask and confirm these questions.  But I am glad you posted here, but one of us may need this info in the future!

 

Thank you for your kind words and you’re welcome! Any important information is worth sharing here. 

 

I emailed the US embassy in my home country and I’m still waiting for a confirmation (and how long will it take). 

[peacan 7]

Oh boy! Let's call a truce!

[ordjnb 40]

You can get passports made the day of. I've had friends who did that. 

[Leo7777 243]

4 hours ago, ordjnb said:

You can get passports made the day of. I've had friends who did that. 

Depends on where you live (or where you are willing to travel to and stay in hotels enroute and at the location and how much you are willing to pay for this travel and accommodations) and how much you are willing to pay for the same day service.

 

But if you mean to infer that anyone can do this anywhere; then you are badly misleading persons.

[ordjnb 40]

Fair. In a big city you can Def get it in a couple of hours. 

[Leo7777 243]

10 hours ago, ordjnb said:

Fair. In a big city you can Def get it in a couple of hours. 

Again . . . not true with respect to 'a big city.'

 

There are only a very few cities, big or small, where there are facilities to do this.

[BK-H 14]

 

Montgomery, AL field office 

I applied Dec 16, 2018 and I did my fingerprint Jan 2, 2019 and my status is still showing Case Is Being Actively Reviewed. And Estimated wait time: 6 months

 

Hope everything moves swiftly! Keeping our fingers crossed 🤞🏽

[Kath2506 13]

On 5/25/2019 at 1:44 PM, peacan said:

Oh boy! Let's call a truce!

Hi there Peacan ... nice to see another Aussie in here...