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2 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

That is exactly what our officer wanted to see....... Let us know where she will take the oath ceremony!!

Will do maybe we had the same IO  his name is on the paper work but I dare not publicize it in public!


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21 hours ago, Sarge2155 said:

Well, the wife had her interview today 10:30am appointment time. I want to advise everyone that this is second hand information from a wired and excited woman so I had to glean portions of the following events: The interview was conducted at our local FO in Irving, Texas or for those not familiar with Irving, you can say Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. For that reason we left the house at 6:30am, why you ask so early the traffic in this area is horrendous and we did not want to risk traffic and a back log due to a wreck or construction so we gave ourselves ample time (it's about an hours drive anyway).

 

We arrived about 7:50am so we had a long wait until her appointment time, but we were ready we had pillows, blankets snacks, etc. You know the wife had to bring her make up kits and comb, brush, lipstick, etc since she would be messing her hair up while waiting (women) 😁. The place had interviews starting at 7am so they were in full swing once we got there. They would not let her enter the building until 15 minutes prior to her scheduled time. I knew from talking to several other people as they came out that I would not be allowed to go inside the building.

 

These are the questions they asked her remember you need 6 correct out of 10. The wife got the first 6 correct so they only asked 6 questions:

 

1. Who is your US Senator

2. Name your US Representative

3. Who veto's bills

4. What state borders Mexico

5. What is Benjamin Franklin famous/known for

6. What is a constitution

 

She had a short sentence to read: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Sentence to write: What is one promise that you make when you become a United States citizen?

 

She said the IO was cordial and told her she had passed the civics and reading and writing portions. The wife said she saw our I-751 package on his desk all 6lbs of it. He asked where her spouse was and she said in the car, it was at that time he told her  the interview was a combination, but there was no need for me to attend. She said he was concerned to see 2022 taxes and he wanted proof that we were living together. He also asked for items from the filing of the I-751 until the interview, which by the way served as items for the N400 too. Mind you all this happened in about 15 minutes she said the IO seemed rushed but he did not miss a beat. The IO gave her a Form N-652 which stated she had passed the civics, written and writing test. It also stated that he would be recommending approval of the I-751 and the N-400.

 

One important detail I think everyone should know she said the I-751 sitting there in all its glory was basically an after thought and the IO did not waste to much time on it.  He had already gone through it as it was in disarray sitting on his desk. All in all the wife said she was relaxed and the everything  happened like she had studied and we had rehearsed (we did plan on her going inside the interview alone without me.) She was not bothered by that fact since we covered it as a possible scenario before hand.

 

As of a few minutes ago we got status  saying "Oath Ceremony Will Be Scheduled." Just a side note in all the excitement the wife forgot to take a picture besides the USCIS name plate, so I have to drive out AGAIN this Saturday so she can get dressed up again just to take a picture of the sign on the building geeezzzz!!!!!  End of story!

 

 

Congratulations! Awesome news to hear and thanks for the detailed secondhand review of the process.

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1 hour ago, Zxcvbnmz said:

Do you mind sharing what did they ask you

What was Lincoln famous for?

Who vetoes bills? 

How many house representatives are there? 

Who's the leader of the executive branch? 

Name one of the members of the Constitutional Convention that wrote the Constitution. 

How many amendments to the Constitution are there? 

 

He had me read a sentence (something about Thanksgiving) and write "Thanksgiving is in November."

 

If you get an app and just go through the questions a bunch of times, you'll be fine.  That's all I did. Worked until I was getting at least 96% on the app 50 question tests.  

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On 4/10/2023 at 9:19 PM, KenandBina said:

How do you find out if your office does same day oaths? 

So I originally was basing that off a few random threads I found here on VJ, but as it turns out my office does do same day oaths! Another user here pointed out that recent reviews on Google for our FO mention same day oath ceremonies and they were correct. So I recommend looking at Google reviews for your own FO to see if there are recent mentions regarding the oath.

 

We are hoping to luck out and get it all done in one day but with ROC also pending we know it's dependent on whether they can approve both on the spot or not. 

K1 to AOS                                                                                   AOS/EAD/AP                                                                      N-400

03/01/2018 - I-129F Mailed                                              06/19/2019 - NOA1 Date                                              01/27/2023 - N-400 Filed Online

03/08/2018 - NOA1 Date                                                    07/11/2019 - Biometrics Appt                                   02/23/2023 - Biometrics Appt
09/14/2018 - NOA2 Date                                                    12/13/2019 - EAD/AP Approved                               04/03/2023 - Interview Scheduled

10/16/2018 - NVC Received                                              12/17/2019 - Interview Scheduled                          05/10/2023 - Interview - APPROVED!

10/21/2018 - Packet 3 Received                                      01/29/2020 - Interview - APPROVED!                  OFFICIALLY A U.S. CITIZEN! 

12/30/2018 - Packet 3 Sent                                               02/04/2020 - Green Card Received! 

01/06/2019 - Packet 4 Received                                     ROC - I-751

01/29/2019 - Interview - APPROVED!                           11/02/2021 - Mailed ROC Packet

02/05/2019 - Visa Received                                             11/04/2021 - NOA1 Date

05/17/2019 - U.S. Arrival                                                     01/19/2022 - Biometrics Waived

05/24/2019 - Married ❤️                                                    02/04/2023 - Transferred to New Office

06/14/2019 - Mailed AOS Packet                                    05/10/2023 - APPROVED!

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Oath Ceremony scheduled for April 27, 2023.  

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Just now, mam521 said:

Oath Ceremony scheduled for April 27, 2023.  

Congrats!!!   Have you booked an appointment for your passport?  

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In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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Just now, Crazy Cat said:

Congrats!!!   Have you booked an appointment for your passport?  

We're going to have to do emergency passport.  Work confirmed that I will have to head to Malaysia to teach May 15th - 19th.  So, I'll need to leave no later than the 11th. And then we have a trip to Europe that's been booked since before I even applied for citizenship.  

 

Kids' passports - we're going to wait until we're back from Europe.  Once we have them, we'll apply for the N-600's. 

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23 hours ago, mam521 said:

What was Lincoln famous for?

Who vetoes bills? 

How many house representatives are there? 

Who's the leader of the executive branch? 

Name one of the members of the Constitutional Convention that wrote the Constitution. 

How many amendments to the Constitution are there? 

 

He had me read a sentence (something about Thanksgiving) and write "Thanksgiving is in November."

 

If you get an app and just go through the questions a bunch of times, you'll be fine.  That's all I did. Worked until I was getting at least 96% on the app 50 question tests.  

Thank you so much for sharing

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On 4/12/2023 at 4:59 PM, Sarge2155 said:

Just got the status about the oath ceremony it's April 25, 2023 at 1:30pm never got so many status updates in the whole time we have been dealing with USCIS. The start of the journey with the K1 was rough took an excessive amount of time to approve for the time frame (2018.) Then wife got caught up in the sputum thing lucky after the culture growth she was fine, on to the K1 interview wife said the lady was extremely difficult but she passed and got through that. Then on to AOS we caught a break here as it was just as COVID kicked in (2020) full strength everyone was scared, we got waived and  approved for AOS no interview.  The rest is history ROC and N400 was a no brainer. I'm glad I watched others namely @Crazy Cat  and followed suit to what him and his wife did, it paid off BIG TIME!!! After the 25th it will be done, I'll throw all those documents in a big box and seal them up, put them up in the attic and we are DONE! It's been a great journey, bad and good you just have to stick with it and have faith in yourselves!!!!!!

 

See  everyone on the flip side as I'll be around to help where I can!

Congrats! That was fast and I am in queue for interview at same FO :)

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44 minutes ago, MK_Dallas said:

Anyone attended N400 interview please confirm if the interview officer checking Visas?

 

 

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