N-400 February 2024 Filers

[Laure&Colin 558]

6 hours ago, happydoctor said:

It’s  hard to say . The officer definitely read the questions from the computer and then typed exactly what I answered. To me it looked like questions were chosen randomly by their program . Same about reading and writing , I guess. 

 

That's exactly what I was about to reply. I didn't see any indication that the officer was choosing questions, but of course I couldn't see his screen.

[ctrlplm 42]

Just passed my interview - and got scheduled for same day oath as well. The interview took 20 minutes maybe? I don’t remember how many questions they asked but the majority of the time was spent on logistic questions and updated the form (they updated some of my answers since I left them blanks apparently).

 

i decided to do a name change at the local court rather than via the ceremony since driving to USCIS isn’t fun 

[Duggu 60]

Update:

 

After waiting for more than 100 days , Interview finally got scheduled for June 26th ( San Jose, California ) 

 

 

[Ichaa 10]

Great news😊

[Ichaa 10]

2 minutes ago, Duggu said:

Update:

 

After waiting for more than 100 days , Interview finally got scheduled for June 26th ( San Jose, California ) 

 

 

Great news😊

[crm2822 9]

2 minutes ago, Duggu said:

Update:

 

After waiting for more than 100 days , Interview finally got scheduled for June 26th ( San Jose, California ) 

 

 

Best of luck. In one of your previous posts u said your case was stuck in background checks. How did u know this? Did they tell u that?

[minivatreni 193]

41 minutes ago, crm2822 said:

Best of luck. In one of your previous posts u said your case was stuck in background checks. How did u know this? Did they tell u that?

No one can know that information. We are not privvy to it. 

[Pinnacle 15]

2 hours ago, Duggu said:

Update:

 

After waiting for more than 100 days , Interview finally got scheduled for June 26th ( San Jose, California ) 

 

 

That's great! 

[Laure&Colin 558]

Congrats to @AndrewSeattle and @ctrlplm for becoming citizens! 🥳

@ctrlplm any news for your spouse's case?

 

Also hoping to hear good news soon from @Woodpecker07 who has their interview today!

 

@Duggu yay, the wait for an update is over! I think for everyone out there still waiting, there's no reason to worry when you're still within the estimated timeline. Yes it's frustrating to see people who applied later get their interviews earlier than you for no obvious reason but.... the USCIS works in mysterious ways. Trust that most applications get processed without mistakes eventually.

 

 

User Name                 Date applied       Interview date         Oath date

🇺🇸 Lanzoni                   01/29/24       -     04/04/24 ✅          05/08/24 ✅

Sahar1122                    01/30/24       -     05/15/24 ✅           06/21/24             

🇺🇸 Laure&Colin          02/01/24       -     05/14/24 ✅           Same-day oath✅       

Youssuf                        02/01/24

Chelleyandaaron     02/01/24       -      06/04/24

Winbig                          02/01/24       -      05/08/24 ✅          06/03/24

USAUAinCZ                02/02/24

thedtayl                        02/02/24

🇺🇸 Wisconsinbly      05/02/24      -     03/27/24✅            05/09/24✅

CollegeDropOut       02/07/24      -     05/17/24                  Pending I-751 approval

Duggu                           02/07/24      -     06/26/24

MrsOli                           02/14/24      -      06/13/24

🇺🇸 Tommy2000       02/14/24      -      04/10/24 ✅            05/02/24✅ 

BlackPearl9                02/14/24

PhoenixNiro               02/15/24      -      05/29/24

YellowDuneBuggy   02/15/24      -      06/13/24

Elethiomel                  02/15/24       -      04/09/24 ✅           06/20/24 

Tunes                            02/16/24

alt blank                      02/16/24        -     06/20/24

Woodpecker07        02/17/24        -     05/22/24

🇺🇸 ctrlplm                   02/17/24        -     05/22/24 ✅            Same-day oath✅

ctrlplm (spouse)     02/17/24

zen_nj                          02/17/24

Aur0ra                         02/18/24

Brazibride                  02/19/24       -       06/13/24

Minivatreni                02/20/24      -       06/10/24

mmv_1                          02/20/24      -       05/28/24

🇺🇸 AndrewSeattle  02/21/24        -      05/21/24 ✅          Same-day oath✅

Vamphog                   02/22/24       -       05/29/24

koski                            02/22/24       -       05/21/24

johndott                     02/22/24

🇺🇸 Valmabe              02/24/24      -       04/18/24✅            05/13/24✅

Haydnator                 02/24/24

Jish&Abt                    02/24/24      -       05/23/24

Jm06                           02/25/24       -      04/10/24 ✅           05/17/24

RmSean                      02/25/24

Theredcomet           02/27/24

Seiya-pegasus        02/27/24

Mr W & I                      02/28/24        -     04/18/24✅             05/06/24

Endless desire         02/29/24

Music_en                   02/29/24

 

Edited May 22 by Laure&Colin

[Duggu 60]

2 hours ago, crm2822 said:

Best of luck. In one of your previous posts u said your case was stuck in background checks. How did u know this? Did they tell u that?

 

My spouse who filed with me, She was done with the entire process in first week of May ( interview/oath/passport).

She asked the IO why my interview is not scheduled yet (during her naturalization interview).  The IO told her my background checks are pending at NBC. There is no issue from San Jose field office. 

Field office can only schedule interview once background checks are done at NBC and they get a go ahead from NBC.  

 

 

Edited May 22 by Duggu

[crm2822 9]

41 minutes ago, Duggu said:

 

My spouse who filed with me, She was done with the entire process in first week of May ( interview/oath/passport).

She asked the IO why my interview is not scheduled yet (during her naturalization interview).  The IO told her my background checks are pending at NBC. There is no issue from San Jose field office. 

Field office can only schedule interview once background checks are done at NBC and they get a go ahead from NBC.  

 

 

Ok thank you for sharing information. So it means field office pick the cases and schedules the interviews themselves versus NBC sending the cases to them and scheduling? Like pull vs push?

[ctrlplm 42]

1 hour ago, Laure&Colin said:

@ctrlplm any news for your spouse's case?

 

Unfortunately not!! Still no movement. Not sure if it's because we put him down with his primary citizenship whereas he entered the US on the German passport, or whether he took a short 10 day trip home (I got the interview notice when he was out of the country), or whether his name is super common that's causing the delay

 

1 hour ago, Duggu said:

She asked the IO why my interview is not scheduled yet (during her naturalization interview).  The IO told her my background checks are pending at NBC. There is no issue from San Jose field office. 

 

What? I didn't know you could've asked about my spouse's case as well!!! I guess I should've had the mind but I got up at 6AM and was super tired for the interview... 

 

Also here's my exprerience:

 

Arrived 30 minutes early but didn’t get called in 30 minutes after my assigned time slot. Can’t remember the questions because I was sleep deprived - the officer spent more time on the logistic questions - apparently I left some of the questions blank - not sure how I did that since I filled them out online. She updated the questions and verified the changes. Also, I asked the officer to remove “so help me god” part from my oath.

 

No name change and they told me to swear in the same day at 8:30. I actually have a judicial name change scheduled later with my local court - it's additional fee but saves me a lot of time.

 

The ceremony was… efficient. They did a group oath swearing, and it was a bit awkward for me to not do “so help me god” part when everyone else was saying it - not that it mattered since it was a lot of peple😅😅. I felt like I stood out too much.

 

And then they handed the certificates by calling out our names - felt like handing out candy to children a bit  😂.

 

The officer was funny though - made a few jokes in between the ceremonial and legalese parts of the ceremony. I thought it was a positive experience. 

 

The room was super crowded at the end when everyone was trying to take a photo with the sign - I ended up just leaving because I didn't want to line up and they needed to clear the room for other people. I wish they had a place to take photograph outside the venue though.

[Laure&Colin 558]

5 minutes ago, ctrlplm said:

 

Arrived 30 minutes early but didn’t get called in 30 minutes after my assigned time slot. Can’t remember the questions because I was sleep deprived - the officer spent more time on the logistic questions - apparently I left some of the questions blank - not sure how I did that since I filled them out online. She updated the questions and verified the changes. Also, I asked the officer to remove “so help me god” part from my oath.

 

Your oath ceremony sounds a bit like mine was. Quick and to-the-point but not very ceremonial.

Also, my interviewing officer corrected some blanks and errors on my form too, that I'm 100% sure I didn't make. When I saw the corrections on the tablet I was like "I definitely didn't do that though??". Like entering 0 in my total number of marriages instead of 1. The officer said almost everyone makes that mistake... which made me think that it was probably a bug with the online form.

[ctrlplm 42]

1 minute ago, Laure&Colin said:

Also, my interviewing officer corrected some blanks and errors on my form too, that I'm 100% sure I didn't make. When I saw the corrections on the tablet I was like "I definitely didn't do that though??". Like entering 0 in my total number of marriages instead of 1. The officer said almost everyone makes that mistake... which made me think that it was probably a bug with the online form.

Oh you're right! I'm checking the copy of the PDF from the website and I definitely put 1 for the number of times in the PDF!! And yes, I had a couple of other questions blank as well - I'm pretty I would've noticed the gaps.

 

[Laure&Colin 558]

2 minutes ago, ctrlplm said:

Oh you're right! I'm checking the copy of the PDF from the website and I definitely put 1 for the number of times in the PDF!! And yes, I had a couple of other questions blank as well - I'm pretty I would've noticed the gaps.

 

 

Yup, definitely a bug on their side. Good thing at the citizenship stage they can correct at interview without trouble or delay. I know they released a new version of the form since we filed, hopefully they fixed that.