N-400 April 2020 Filers

[ShpatBeqa 32]

1 hour ago, Raymyster said:

Did you have to file a FOIA or they just scheduled you out of nowhere?

Out of no where…

[Cloggie 17]

Congrats!

[Raymyster 2]

Ok so here is a step by step on how to file the CORRECT FOIA

 

1- go to https://first.uscis.gov/

2- Sign up for an account

3- Click SUBMIT A REQUEST

4- Click FOR MYSELF

5- Make sure to select (Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)/Privacy Act (PA))

6- leave What is purpose of your request? BLANK

7- Fill out all the info as you know it, first name, last name, maiden names, dob, passport number, alien number, receipt number, address, phone number, parents information.

8- MAKE SURE YOU SELECT ENTIRE A-FILE in the following step

 

Good luck.

[Guido51 9]

any florida filers? mine has been pending over a year.

[Guido51 9]

hi everyone, i have a pending n400 and i751.

today i learned that i am in line for interview for n400 since January. 

they said my interview is requested to my local office but not scheduled yet.

do you know how long it takes for interview to be scheduled?

anybody had or saw similar experience? 

 

thank you if you can share.

[Cloggie 17]

Hi Guys,

I too filed a FOIA. It's been stuck for a while.

Anybody has an idea how long it will take to move from stage 2 to stage 3?

 

 

[Kristina B. 4]

Interview was today at 8am, by 8:45am I was sworn in. It was a rather anti-climatic end to it all. There were three of us in the oath ceremony, all of us had applied two years ago.

[orangeal 12]

10 hours ago, Kristina B. said:

Interview was today at 8am, by 8:45am I was sworn in. It was a rather anti-climatic end to it all. There were three of us in the oath ceremony, all of us had applied two years ago.

Awesome

[Kristina B. 4]

So now that I've had time to sleep and process yesterday, here is a more detailed account of what happened.
My appointment was at 8am, so I arrived at the office at 7:30am as one does. I couldn't enter the building until 7:45am though. After I checked in, I had to wait a bit to be called back for my interview. There were four people there waiting (including myself) and at least two of them were there for interviews as well.

I was called back for my interview a few minutes after 8am, and we started with me being put under oath swearing that I would tell the truth. I was more anxious than nervous and my hands were shaking which the immigration official commented on. We then went to the part where I had to answer six of ten questions. I had studied but still felt like I had forgotten all of it. 

The questions I got were:

1. What did the emancipation proclamation do?

2. What is the capital of Alabama?

3. What are the two parties in the US?

4. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

5. Who did the United States fight in World War II?

6. Why does the flag have 50 stars?

Throughout it all, the immigration officer was not shy about expressing his very conservative views, and when I answered the first question with 'freed the slaves in the confederacy' went on to tell me how slavery continued in the north, which led to him asking me if I liked history and the importance of keeping confederate statues up instead of erasing history and how he read 1984 and how that is what is happening now... It felt rather strange and when we got to the topic of voting (because I had answered the question of why I wanted to become a US citizen with how important it was for me to vote) I was advised by him how important it is to look at facts instead of government doublespeak and to not vote based on emotional reasons. He also asked me about my thoughts on current gas prices and launched into a 'my whole family are business owners' speech. All of it seemed very inappropriate.

Throughout those discussions, I also had to read the sentence 'What was the first state?', which I did not know the answer to, and then write 'Delaware was the first state.' 

And with that, I was done. They are currently doing same-day oath ceremonies in Montgomery due to Covid, so I was walked over to another room where I waited for two other people to join us. We had to say our oath of allegiance and then got our certificate of naturalization and we were able to leave. To be honest, the whole oath ceremony felt very anti-climatic. 

[orangeal 12]

5 hours ago, Kristina B. said:

So now that I've had time to sleep and process yesterday, here is a more detailed account of what happened.
My appointment was at 8am, so I arrived at the office at 7:30am as one does. I couldn't enter the building until 7:45am though. After I checked in, I had to wait a bit to be called back for my interview. There were four people there waiting (including myself) and at least two of them were there for interviews as well.

I was called back for my interview a few minutes after 8am, and we started with me being put under oath swearing that I would tell the truth. I was more anxious than nervous and my hands were shaking which the immigration official commented on. We then went to the part where I had to answer six of ten questions. I had studied but still felt like I had forgotten all of it. 

The questions I got were:

1. What did the emancipation proclamation do?

2. What is the capital of Alabama?

3. What are the two parties in the US?

4. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

5. Who did the United States fight in World War II?

6. Why does the flag have 50 stars?

Throughout it all, the immigration officer was not shy about expressing his very conservative views, and when I answered the first question with 'freed the slaves in the confederacy' went on to tell me how slavery continued in the north, which led to him asking me if I liked history and the importance of keeping confederate statues up instead of erasing history and how he read 1984 and how that is what is happening now... It felt rather strange and when we got to the topic of voting (because I had answered the question of why I wanted to become a US citizen with how important it was for me to vote) I was advised by him how important it is to look at facts instead of government doublespeak and to not vote based on emotional reasons. He also asked me about my thoughts on current gas prices and launched into a 'my whole family are business owners' speech. All of it seemed very inappropriate.

Throughout those discussions, I also had to read the sentence 'What was the first state?', which I did not know the answer to, and then write 'Delaware was the first state.' 

And with that, I was done. They are currently doing same-day oath ceremonies in Montgomery due to Covid, so I was walked over to another room where I waited for two other people to join us. We had to say our oath of allegiance and then got our certificate of naturalization and we were able to leave. To be honest, the whole oath ceremony felt very anti-climatic. 

What a disgrace that he treated you in such a condescending manner! 

[ShpatBeqa 32]

You must bring the following with you to the interview.

 

”any evidence of selective service registration”

 

####### is that ? 

[fk67 7]

Our journey got completed today in Boston. 

Filled mid April 2020.

 

Got bio done in Feb 2021. Then nothing for exactly 13 months. Filled FOIA in February 2022, which completed in three weeks.  Received interview notification in early March 2022.

Today was interview, n then was offered same day Oath, which we graciously accepted. Was done n minted as a new n proud US citizen by 10AM.

 

This forum helped a lot. I wanted to file for FOIA back in November of 2021 but got discouraged by posts on Reddit. But finally reading positive feedback from this forum we applied in February 2022.

 

thank you all. 

 

 

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[TheFinn 3]

Yesterday was my 2nd anniversary from filing... May 5th will be the first anniversary from the interview, and may 8th is the first anniversary from responding to the RFI...

 

Case has been "actively reviewed" since Sep 17th 2021. 

 

Needless to say what I think of this all.

 

Congrats to everyone who has been able to get through the process - and for those of us STILL waiting, keep the faith !

[orangeal 12]

Very frustrating l'm sure. What was the RFE about?