N400 Sacramento Field Office

[Saman1103 41]

On 8/29/2022 at 11:42 AM, Vicolas said:

I finally submitted my N400 yesterday! When I submitted, it said estimate 16 months waiting time. Woke up this morning, case was updated to under actively review and estimate time changed to 10 months😂😂😂

I will be applying next month and I'm already dreading the process. Our removal of conditions is coming up on 1 year with no movement. Why do they make this process so long? Also I've been reading the Sacramento field office doesn't do name changes so I'll have to do that as well after. Such a painful process this is

[Vicolas 121]

7 hours ago, Saman1103 said:

I will be applying next month and I'm already dreading the process. Our removal of conditions is coming up on 1 year with no movement. Why do they make this process so long? Also I've been reading the Sacramento field office doesn't do name changes so I'll have to do that as well after. Such a painful process this is

Same here, removal of condition didn’t change at all and I’m over 1 year now. Hopefully the N-400 will force some movement on the removal of condition. Luckily this is the last step of the immigration so nobody need to suffer again. 

I didn’t know that Sacramento doesn’t do name change… I was debating if I should update my name or not during citizenship process, now it’s easy, I can’t even if I want lol

[Saman1103 41]

6 hours ago, Vicolas said:

Same here, removal of condition didn’t change at all and I’m over 1 year now. Hopefully the N-400 will force some movement on the removal of condition. Luckily this is the last step of the immigration so nobody need to suffer again. 

I didn’t know that Sacramento doesn’t do name change… I was debating if I should update my name or not during citizenship process, now it’s easy, I can’t even if I want lol

I'm going to request it still. There's comments on here stating that the Sacramento field office doesn't allow.. But that may be in certain situations. So I'll still try.

[Saman1103 41]

On 8/29/2022 at 11:42 AM, Vicolas said:

I finally submitted my N400 yesterday! When I submitted, it said estimate 16 months waiting time. Woke up this morning, case was updated to under actively review and estimate time changed to 10 months😂😂😂

No updates? I will be applying in 4 days. From what I've been reading it looks like 10-12 month wait. There's a lady in this thread that got hers in 3-4 months. Lucky her

[Vicolas 121]

On 11/4/2022 at 5:14 PM, Saman1103 said:

No updates? I will be applying in 4 days. From what I've been reading it looks like 10-12 month wait. There's a lady in this thread that got hers in 3-4 months. Lucky her

I actually just got a notification that interview will be in January! Totally unexpected but yeah it’s about 5 months for me.

[Saman1103 41]

7 hours ago, Vicolas said:

I actually just got a notification that interview will be in January! Totally unexpected but yeah it’s about 5 months for me.

That's awesome. I hope mine is as fast as yours

[Vicolas 121]

18 hours ago, Saman1103 said:

That's awesome. I hope mine is as fast as yours

Yes I'm pretty excited about it, but I got about 6 weeks' time to prepare so I'd better start on the civic test ...

 

I've been watching the progress for the VJers that is in Sacramento office, I think the processing time is trending much better, it was pretty consistent as 6-7 months, the most recent ones (myself included) are ~5 months from the NOA1 to interview. This is a good sign and hopefully it turns to ~4 months processing timing when it's your turn. 

 

I'll try to change name too in the office, will let you know if it works or not.

 

Good luck!

[Saman1103 41]

1 hour ago, Vicolas said:

Yes I'm pretty excited about it, but I got about 6 weeks' time to prepare so I'd better start on the civic test ...

 

I've been watching the progress for the VJers that is in Sacramento office, I think the processing time is trending much better, it was pretty consistent as 6-7 months, the most recent ones (myself included) are ~5 months from the NOA1 to interview. This is a good sign and hopefully it turns to ~4 months processing timing when it's your turn. 

 

I'll try to change name too in the office, will let you know if it works or not.

 

Good luck!

Thanks and good luck

[Saman1103 41]

Any Sacramento filers recently have their interview? If so how did it go

[da95826 387]

14 minutes ago, Saman1103 said:

Any Sacramento filers recently have their interview? If so how did it go

Did the n400 interview in May, a combo i751/n400 interview, and no name change Sacramento field office did not accommodate our name change request. The interviewing officer indicated the Sacramento field offices do not support name change requests during naturalization and updated our n400 application and removed the name change request during our interview. 

 

The we, petitioner and spouse, were admitted into the field office, we waited 45 minutes, and we were both called in to the combo interview. The IO was cordial and friendly throughout the interviews, the petitioner and spouse remained throughout i751 and n400 interview and test.  

 

You can see our timeline below.

[Saman1103 41]

On 11/29/2022 at 4:55 PM, Vicolas said:

Yes I'm pretty excited about it, but I got about 6 weeks' time to prepare so I'd better start on the civic test ...

 

I've been watching the progress for the VJers that is in Sacramento office, I think the processing time is trending much better, it was pretty consistent as 6-7 months, the most recent ones (myself included) are ~5 months from the NOA1 to interview. This is a good sign and hopefully it turns to ~4 months processing timing when it's your turn. 

 

I'll try to change name too in the office, will let you know if it works or not.

 

Good luck!

Good luck today and let me know how it goes.

[Vicolas 121]

21 hours ago, Saman1103 said:

Good luck today and let me know how it goes.

My interview went very well. The officer was a lady, super nice/sweet/chill, I waited 50 mins and then did the combo interview (have a pending 751). Questions were very simple, like how we meet, where do we live etc., and civic test was the most basic ones too, like when do we celebrate the Independence Day, etc.

 

Both cases were approved but it sounds like it’ll take some time to take effective in system, so I should expect a February oath at the earliest. 
 

I asked the name change, and so far they don’t take any name change, maybe sometime in the future.

 

Good luck to you too!!!

[Saman1103 41]

6 hours ago, Vicolas said:

My interview went very well. The officer was a lady, super nice/sweet/chill, I waited 50 mins and then did the combo interview (have a pending 751). Questions were very simple, like how we meet, where do we live etc., and civic test was the most basic ones too, like when do we celebrate the Independence Day, etc.

 

Both cases were approved but it sounds like it’ll take some time to take effective in system, so I should expect a February oath at the earliest. 
 

I asked the name change, and so far they don’t take any name change, maybe sometime in the future.

 

Good luck to you too!!!

Awesome and congrats

[ale07 51]

Hi! I filed N400 online today and got a notice about biometrics reuse. I have a pending I-751 as well.

[Saman1103 41]

On 1/14/2023 at 6:41 PM, ale07 said:

Hi! I filed N400 online today and got a notice about biometrics reuse. I have a pending I-751 as well.

Same here. Welcome to the 5-7 month wait