N-400 September 2023 Filers

[He and I 66]

I get my N400 interview next Thursday, so I guess they transfer my pending ROC to the local office: today my pending ROC update is to 'Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction', when yesterday the website showed ' Your Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, was transferred to another office for processing.'

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

5 months still waiting 😯 this is long compared to July interview in 45 days from filing 

[MunnoTheCat 68]

 

12 minutes ago, LEXUSdRIVER2908 said:

5 months still waiting 😯 this is long compared to July interview in 45 days from filing 

 

are you on "your case is taking longer than expected"? if so, then same here. The frustrating part is one doesn't have a clue what is actually going on with the application. Do you or anyone know if "your case is taking longer than expected" actually jumped back to any defined "processing time" like 2 months or 5 months?

Edited January 25 by MunnoTheCat

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

Mines says your case is taking longer than expected long than a month and hasn’t changed. 

[MunnoTheCat 68]

1 minute ago, LEXUSdRIVER2908 said:

Mines says your case is taking longer than expected long than a month and hasn’t changed. 

dittu and that's weird. Is it simply a glitch or a real "put this fella on hold" thing?

[He and I 66]

Had my interview this morning and went smooth. Got approved, right away after answering 6 questions, reading and writing.
Hope the same to everyone who is waiting!

[vickacy2002 43]

Just got notification today that interview has been scheduled and mail will be coming soon. I checked myaccount and saw interview letter with schedule on 2/28.

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

Congrats man

[BJM-SSM 18]

Anyone from Charlotte, NC? I filed on September 15, 2023 still haven’t heard anything. 

[OldUser 6,589]

10 hours ago, BJM-SSM said:

Anyone from Charlotte, NC? I filed on September 15, 2023 still haven’t heard anything. 

Did you receive I-797?

Were your biometrics reused?

3-4 months of silence is ok, this is USCIS

[R1CH1991 247]

I have my oath ceremony tomorrow evening. I’m really excited and will update with how it all goes

[A.DUBAI 23]

I had my N-400 interview yesterday, here is how it went down:

The officer put me under oath before I sat down, asked for my green card and ID, and started asking the civics question, I got the first 7 correctly, so he moved to the next part and asked me to read the sentence "who was George Washington?" on the tablet, then asked me to write "George Washington was the first president". After that, he started reading the questions from my application, and everything went smoothly until we hit the question about being arrested or cited before, I mentioned in the application that I got 2 speeding tickets back in 2019 and they were both dismissed by the court (lawyer fees were $3000 in 2019 as I have a commercial driver's license) and I offered to show the dismissal and he was interested in these documents, after that he had me sign twice on the information I provided under oath and he gave me my documents back. Then he stood up and said follow me, I did, and he walked me to a waiting room and asked me to wait until I was called, I said how did I do, he smiled and said you passed, congratulations. I shook his hands and thanked him. worth mentioning that I broke the ice with him since he called my name and picked me up to go for the interview, I had a little conversation to show him I am fluent in English, and he was annoyed by the work overload so I touched on that and even said that the Gov. agency I work for is hiring and we had a laugh about that, and during the interview, his colleague came to the room with big files of more work and he was annoyed so I showed sympathy and tried to be friendly, he was a cool black guy, and he pretty much understood that I am fluent and educated so it was a chill interview. My interview was at 8 AM I showed up at 7:30 but the security said to go and come back by 7:45, the interview started around 8:20 and I was done at 8:50 AM.

In the waiting area, there were a bunch of other people waiting so I waited and I was called after less than 5 minutes. The guy saw the pin with my agency logo that I had on my suit and said "Oh you work for this agency, I tried to work there but I got this job at the same time so I picked this one since the other one was dealing with the general public and was difficult, so he was very nice, we chatted for like 3 minutes, then he congratulated me and asked me to come back at 2 PM after he stuck a sticker with a code on my Green Card, I said come back TODAY!!?? He said yes today for your ceremony .... !!!! I came back, got in surrendered my green card, and got my Naturalization certificate the same day, received 2 packets: the white USCIS envelope, and a yellow manila envelope with a message from President Joe Biden. And an American flag that I used during the ceremony. 

I wish you all the best of luck, and remember you are allowed at least 1 guest for the ceremony so bring someone who knows how to take pictures, if not, ask someone to take your picture, I took a smoking hot Latina with me that almost caused an accident when she walked across the parking lot towards the USCIS office to meet me at the waiting line. GOOD LUCK Y'ALL .... Relax and Enjoy that day and say goodbye to the anxiety and waiting. 

[Crazy Cat 41,771]

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[boobooboo 7]

 

On 1/18/2024 at 7:20 PM, boobooboo said:

 

Had my interview today, everything went well. Oath ceremony scheduled for next Fri 26th, got the notice online about 6 hours after the interview. Was in an out in about 40min, the actual relevant interview part was maybe 5 min (test + few yes/no questions), rest of the time was just chatting about other stuff. They let me into the building 30min early and I was called in early too. Maybe a 5min wait at max.

 

 

Final timeline:

 

San Jose FO

5-year rule

Employment based. 

 

Application submitted online

Sep 20, 2023

Applied 88 days before anniversary. 

 

Receipt notice / Reuse of biometrics

Sep 20, 2023

Within a few minutes. 

 

Interview scheduled

Dec 11, 2023

 

Interview

Jan 18, 2024

 

Oath ceremony notice

Jan 19, 2024

Notice date was 19th but I saw it roughly 6 hours after my interview, so was on the 18th itself. I am not sure why it said 19th even when it was 18th on the East Coast. Maybe USCIS runs on UK/GMT/UTC time lol. Very american. 

 

Oath

Jan 26, 2024

San Jose does oaths every other Friday it seems. Oath ceremony is literally a drive through in their parking lot. Again, very american. People line up in their cars in 4 rows. Batches of about 15 cars are the asked to hop out. You listen to the oath, and all you do is acknowledge. Didn't even have to repeat the oath lol. Then you get back in your car and someone comes over with the certificate and asks you to drive off. Other than waiting in the car, was under 5min. Took under 30min in total. People were allowed to record videos/take pictures since it was in the parking lot. Guests were allowed. 

 

Certificate issued notice

Jan 27 2024

I got my certificate right after the oath so again not sure why the notice date was 1 day after even though I saw it within a few hours of 26th itself in USCIS online status. UTC time lol. 

 

Edited January 27 by boobooboo

[Crazy Cat 41,771]

3 minutes ago, boobooboo said:

 

Final timeline:

 

San Jose FO

5-year rule

Employment based. 

 

Application submitted online

Sep 20, 2023

Applied 88 days before anniversary. 

 

Receipt notice / Reuse of biometrics

Sep 20, 2023

Within a few minutes. 

 

Interview scheduled

Dec 11, 2023

 

Interview

Jan 18, 2024

 

Oath ceremony notice

Jan 19, 2024

Notice date was 19th but I saw it roughly 6 hours after my interview, so was on the 18th itself. I am not sure why it said 19th even when it was 18th on the East Coast. Maybe USCIS runs on UK/GMT/UTC time lol. Very american. 

 

Oath

Jan 26, 2024

San Jose does oaths every other Friday it seems. Oath ceremony is literally a drive through in their parking lot. Again, very american. People line up in their cars in 4 rows. Batches of about 15 cars are the asked to hop out. You listen to the oath, and all you do is acknowledge. Didn't even have to repeat the oath lol. Then you get back in your car and someone comes over with the certificate and asks you to drive off. Other than waiting in the car, was under 5min. Took under 30min in total. People were allowed to record videos/take pictures since it was in the parking lot. Guests were allowed. 

 

Certificate issued notice

Jan 27 2024

I got my certificate right after the oath so again not sure why the notice date was 1 day after even though I saw it within a few hours of 26th itself in USCIS online status. UTC time lol. 

 

Congratulations!!!  You are now rid of USCIS!!!  Get that passport!!!!  My wife naturalized exactly one year earlier....

Edited January 27 by Crazy Cat