Rescheduling Oath Ceremony due to COVID test within 14 days of Oath Date

[swji89 41]

Hi all,

 

I have read enough to know it's always a risk asking for your oath ceremony to be rescheduled... but wondered if anyone has had any experience having to reschedule it based on COVID.

 

Mine is scheduled for January 8th and I received a positive COVID test a couple of days ago on 12/26... looking back, the fever I had on Monday morning (which passed by Monday afternoon) and stuffy nose were probably the start of the symptoms, but I only got tested having lost my sense of smell and taste on 12/24. 

 

January 8, the day of my oath ceremony,  will be literally 14 days since the test and when I was advised to isolate for 10 days since symptoms started (10 days since 12/24 would be 1/2). I worry about being asked if I've tested positive in the past 14 days when checking in (and not wanting to lie, I'd obviously have to say "yes") but also worry about rescheduling the ceremony and risking having massive issues getting it rescheduled... would it be better to go (10 days after symptoms being the doctor's advise, so I'd be well past that on 1/8) and then get sent away because of my answers to any screening questions, or to risk rescheduling?

 

I also worry about the "missing your oath more than once" issue as they must have had a computer issue and accidentally scheduled a ceremony for 12/8 and descheduled it on the same day (I received the descheduling notice in the mail, weirdly enough).

 

I called the USCIS Contact Center (as the N-445 suggested I do if I had COVID-related issues with attending) but they said to just mail the notice back to the office with an explanatory letter... something the N-445 said to do if there was a "reason other than noted above" for needing to miss the ceremony.

 

I guess it boils down to is it worse to try and reschedule now or to go and potentially be sent home on the day?

 

[AstroCanada 206]

Given that USCIS officers are front-line workers in the pandemic, I think they will be more than happy to accommodate a positive Covid-related request to reschedule.  

 

Other than that you have discretion with counting.  You could potentially count the day of the test as one of the 14 days.  Did you take the test on the 26th?  Or receive the positive result on the 26th?  I would imagine you would count from the day the test was taken.