N-400 November 2019 Filers

[lesly87 27]

@Pete20155 Keeping my fingers crossed for your speedy approval! Did you get your GC through employer by chance? I read online that there was a new law where there was more scrutiny around employment history in those cases. 

[Pete20155 52]

1 minute ago, lesly87 said:

@Pete20155 Keeping my fingers crossed for your speedy approval! Did you get your GC through employer by chance? I read online that there was a new law where there was more scrutiny around employment history in those cases. 

Thank you @lesly87 No my green card was marriage based. 

[Madge6690 13]

Update for others who filed from CA (we are in SF)- just checked and it said my husband's estimated wait time is 13 days!!? Does anyone know what that means exactly? We haven't heard anything, just says the case is being actively reviewed (since last december heh...). Thank you!

[Comic 66]

So I I’m finished gathering all the information I think I will need for my interview and I guess it’s now time to start studying 

[kenzo_gal 70]

Yesterday, I took an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. It was a mixed of emotions since I am happy that after migrating here for five years, eight months and five days, I am finally done with the immigration process and at the same time, it was with a heavy heart to renounce my citizenship to my Mother Land. I will always love my country of birth and origin no matter what, and will always continue and raise my children with the Filipino values and morals that were taught and passed down to me by my parents, but I also love to live and fulfill my American dream in God's time.

 

The ceremony could've been better with my family around, but due to the present pandemic, I had to attend and took an oath all by myself. But on the lighter note, I am finally done and I am so over the moon. To God be the Glory!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

 

Thank you all for sharing your inputs, your own experiences and for your positivity. I wish everyone the best. 🥰

[AraBel 11]

2 hours ago, Madge6690 said:

Update for others who filed from CA (we are in SF)- just checked and it said my husband's estimated wait time is 13 days!!? Does anyone know what that means exactly? We haven't heard anything, just says the case is being actively reviewed (since last december heh...). Thank you!

I am from SF too. I checked mine and it says 19 more days for estimated time. I don’t know either what that means. I hope everything will be perfectly fine for the interview follow by the oath ceremony afterwards. 

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

9 hours ago, AraBel said:

I am from SF too. I checked mine and it says 19 more days for estimated time. I don’t know either what that means. I hope everything will be perfectly fine for the interview follow by the oath ceremony afterwards. 

SF guys, I wouldn’t get too excited. My husband filed in October 2019 and after an actual number of “days” a while back under estimated time it now says “ We are taking longer than expected to process your case. You do not need to do anything at this time.“ Hopefully it won’t be too much longer though.

[bec128 42]

My wife was approved at her interview today at the Albany NY office.

 

We received the notice on Sept 5 -- the only reason I saw it is because I logged in to the website to update our address, because we moved that weekend! I was afraid it would mess with our case since we now live in the Buffalo office's territory, but we didn't receive any further communication from USCIS about it and they didn't seem to have an issue with it at the interview. My wife said the only hiccup was on the civics test, the officer asked her who her Congressman is, and she had memorized the name of the one for here, not the previous one. I guess the officer has a list of all the congressmen for the areas they serve, and ours wasn't on it! Oh well, she still passed the interview.

 

She asked about a same day oath. Albany doesn't do that, but they basically let her pick her oath date and gave her the notice right then. We'll be going back next Friday for her "drive-thru" ceremony!

[Pete20155 52]

17 hours ago, kenzo_gal said:

Yesterday, I took an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. It was a mixed of emotions since I am happy that after migrating here for five years, eight months and five days, I am finally done with the immigration process and at the same time, it was with a heavy heart to renounce my citizenship to my Mother Land. I will always love my country of birth and origin no matter what, and will always continue and raise my children with the Filipino values and morals that were taught and passed down to me by my parents, but I also love to live and fulfill my American dream in God's time.

 

The ceremony could've been better with my family around, but due to the present pandemic, I had to attend and took an oath all by myself. But on the lighter note, I am finally done and I am so over the moon. To God be the Glory!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

 

Thank you all for sharing your inputs, your own experiences and for your positivity. I wish everyone the best. 🥰

Congratulations again ...happy for you !!👍

 

[kenzo_gal 70]

21 hours ago, Pete20155 said:

Congratulations again ...happy for you !!👍

 

Thank you @Pete20155 

I have read the same response like yours before and some of them got a decision after a few days or weeks. Hopefully, you'll hear from them as soon as possible. God bless.

[kenzo_gal 70]

I don't know what happened with our spreadsheet but only a few names were left on it and even mine was gone. Anyways, I have entered mine again and hope you don't mind that I have arranged it in chronological order. Please feel free to make an update or add yours if you haven't already. 🥰

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13PozuhhH6LKgrz-OiJfdFa73WLmygUQeqW3bERg8Cuk/edit#gid=0

[aa1979 100]

5 hours ago, kenzo_gal said:

I don't know what happened with our spreadsheet but only a few names were left on it and even mine was gone. Anyways, I have entered mine again and hope you don't mind that I have arranged it in chronological order. Please feel free to make an update or add yours if you haven't already. 🥰

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13PozuhhH6LKgrz-OiJfdFa73WLmygUQeqW3bERg8Cuk/edit#gid=0

Congratulations!  Glad you made it  

[aa1979 100]

On 10/7/2020 at 3:33 PM, bec128 said:

My wife was approved at her interview today at the Albany NY office.

 

We received the notice on Sept 5 -- the only reason I saw it is because I logged in to the website to update our address, because we moved that weekend! I was afraid it would mess with our case since we now live in the Buffalo office's territory, but we didn't receive any further communication from USCIS about it and they didn't seem to have an issue with it at the interview. My wife said the only hiccup was on the civics test, the officer asked her who her Congressman is, and she had memorized the name of the one for here, not the previous one. I guess the officer has a list of all the congressmen for the areas they serve, and ours wasn't on it! Oh well, she still passed the interview.

 

She asked about a same day oath. Albany doesn't do that, but they basically let her pick her oath date and gave her the notice right then. We'll be going back next Friday for her "drive-thru" ceremony!

Congratulations for passing the interview.  Do you mind sharing with me the civics questions as well as the reading/writing sentences?  Thank you!

[bec128 42]

Update: My wife got a call from the Albany office. The officer told us that because we no longer live in their US District Court area, her file will need to be transferred in order to attend the oath ceremony. So they're sending it to Syracuse, where I guess we'll have to wait for an oath ceremony. So close yet so far! At least she won't have to attend the interview again.

 

12 hours ago, aa1979 said:

Congratulations for passing the interview.  Do you mind sharing with me the civics questions as well as the reading/writing sentences?  Thank you!

Sorry, my wife has a terrible memory lol. It was everything she could do to learn the 100 questions from the study guide. My understanding is that the questions are randomized, so you'll just need to basically memorize all of those questions. Using the USCIS app helped a lot.

 

 

[Pete20155 52]

19 hours ago, kenzo_gal said:

Thank you @Pete20155 

I have read the same response like yours before and some of them got a decision after a few days or weeks. Hopefully, you'll hear from them as soon as possible. God bless.

Well hoping to get the decision sooner. Where I had to wait for so long I don't mind waiting a couple more months, but anything longer than that will cause me anxiousness. Thank you. @kenzo_gal How did your Oath Ceremony go ? did you apply for your passport yet ?