N-400 April 2023 Filers

[interprime 27]

FINALLY got the interview notice for November 7th today after 5 months of waiting. So, so, so happy to nearly be at the end of this!

[MunnoTheCat 68]

3 minutes ago, interprime said:

FINALLY got the interview notice for November 7th today after 5 months of waiting. So, so, so happy to nearly be at the end of this!

 

5 months is actually a good timeline. good luck with your Interview 

[Lovemetz 5]

On 9/11/2023 at 3:59 PM, Lovemetz said:

Nope nothing pending.
I got my 10 years permanent resident card in 2019. (got the first (conditional) green card in 2015, submitted renewal in 2017 Nov and it took a year and a half)

So it's been 8 years since I became a permanent resident. 

My field office is Nashville. I live 20 mins away from the field office. I went to that office for the green card.

Finally! As of yesterday my status was changed to "interview was scheduled". 

I didn't get the notice yet so I don't know when it is, but I'm so happy that it's moving!!

[interprime 27]

Had my interview today at the Baltimore FO. Brought my wife along because we were told it would be a Combo interview for the I-751 too, but the agent informed me that she didn’t need to come in at all, so that was a surprise!

 

interview lasted about 15 minutes, civics questions were fine, as were the English portion of the test and the Yes/No questions. She quickly went through my I-751 application with me and that was it then. At the end she told me that a decision couldn’t be made right there due to the I-751 application, but I expected that.

 

What I didn’t expect was to see an update on my USCIS account once I got home a couple of hours later stating that my application had been recommended for approval and that my Oath Ceremony will be scheduled! Quite a relief! So, now I just have to wait for that to be scheduled and I’ll finally be done with the USCIS for good!

[Crazy Cat 41,811]

5 minutes ago, interprime said:

Had my interview today at the Baltimore FO. Brought my wife along because we were told it would be a Combo interview for the I-751 too, but the agent informed me that she didn’t need to come in at all, so that was a surprise!

 

interview lasted about 15 minutes, civics questions were fine, as were the English portion of the test and the Yes/No questions. She quickly went through my I-751 application with me and that was it then. At the end she told me that a decision couldn’t be made right there due to the I-751 application, but I expected that.

 

What I didn’t expect was to see an update on my USCIS account once I got home a couple of hours later stating that my application had been recommended for approval and that my Oath Ceremony will be scheduled! Quite a relief! So, now I just have to wait for that to be scheduled and I’ll finally be done with the USCIS for good!

Congratulations!!!  

[interprime 27]

5 hours ago, interprime said:

Had my interview today at the Baltimore FO. Brought my wife along because we were told it would be a Combo interview for the I-751 too, but the agent informed me that she didn’t need to come in at all, so that was a surprise!

 

interview lasted about 15 minutes, civics questions were fine, as were the English portion of the test and the Yes/No questions. She quickly went through my I-751 application with me and that was it then. At the end she told me that a decision couldn’t be made right there due to the I-751 application, but I expected that.

 

What I didn’t expect was to see an update on my USCIS account once I got home a couple of hours later stating that my application had been recommended for approval and that my Oath Ceremony will be scheduled! Quite a relief! So, now I just have to wait for that to be scheduled and I’ll finally be done with the USCIS for good!

Update on this: Oath Ceremont scheduled for the 29th! Can’t believe how quickly things have gone today!

[yuna628 9,671]

15 hours ago, interprime said:

Update on this: Oath Ceremont scheduled for the 29th! Can’t believe how quickly things have gone today!

Congrats! Enjoy the ceremony

[VJ0617 21]

On 11/7/2023 at 5:51 PM, interprime said:

Update on this: Oath Ceremont scheduled for the 29th! Can’t believe how quickly things have gone today!

 

13 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Congrats! Enjoy the ceremony

Happy for our fellow Baltimore guys! Congrats to both interprime and yuna628!

 

I am an August filer, still waiting for my interview to be scheduled.

[Chancy 6,241]

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[Skyman 321]

 

On 7/26/2023 at 5:27 PM, ma-mr-canada said:

Yes, I will recommend sending a message to USCIS. Cleveland office usually holds an oath ceremony at least twice a month near downtown Cleveland and once a month near Toledo. 

https://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/naturalization-schedule

Thanks so much for posting this. My wife's interview is today in Cleveland. 

Edited November 7 by Skyman

[SusnOwen 159]

My husband had his citizenship interview yesterday in the Hartford, CT office.  I had submitted a letter with his application, requesting a joint interview for his lifting conditions.  He was in the interview about 45 minutes (he's a talker!), and she did not request to meet with me.  He passed his citizenship tests, and the agent went through his I-751 petition with him, and looked at the pictures and asked a ton of questions about our marriage, such as why we don't have our pay deposited to the joint account instead of transferring money to our own accounts (he explained that we reached and agreement and the mortgage, etc.. are paid from the joint).  They also spent some time talking about Vegas, because ironically when we had our first interview, we had just booked a trip to Vegas for our anniversary - with this interview, we booked a trip to Vegas over Thanksgiving!  She told him that she could not approve him on the spot due to the underlying I-751, but said that she was recommending him for approval and his oath ceremony letter would arrive in the mail.  

 

Our status has not yet changed online - oddly, I received a notice about a week ago that they had taken action on our case, but when I log into the website there is not an update.  So, I guess we are in a holding pattern at the moment, but still feel relieved that the finish line is in sight!

[SusnOwen 159]

3 hours ago, SusnOwen said:

My husband had his citizenship interview yesterday in the Hartford, CT office.  I had submitted a letter with his application, requesting a joint interview for his lifting conditions.  He was in the interview about 45 minutes (he's a talker!), and she did not request to meet with me.  He passed his citizenship tests, and the agent went through his I-751 petition with him, and looked at the pictures and asked a ton of questions about our marriage, such as why we don't have our pay deposited to the joint account instead of transferring money to our own accounts (he explained that we reached and agreement and the mortgage, etc.. are paid from the joint).  They also spent some time talking about Vegas, because ironically when we had our first interview, we had just booked a trip to Vegas for our anniversary - with this interview, we booked a trip to Vegas over Thanksgiving!  She told him that she could not approve him on the spot due to the underlying I-751, but said that she was recommending him for approval and his oath ceremony letter would arrive in the mail.  

 

Our status has not yet changed online - oddly, I received a notice about a week ago that they had taken action on our case, but when I log into the website there is not an update.  So, I guess we are in a holding pattern at the moment, but still feel relieved that the finish line is in sight!

Update to this - I received a notice this am that the I-751 petition had been transferred to another office, then we received a notice that the oath ceremony would be scheduled!

[SusnOwen 159]

Update, Oath Ceremony scheduled for December 3rd!! 🤸‍♂️