N-400 July 2024 Filers

[Elena V 5]

1 minute ago, theprocess01 said:

I had my interview today, is was very simple and was approved.

Congrats! Same day oath or not?

[theprocess01 51]

Just now, Elena V said:

Congrats! Same day oath or not?

No, she told me it should be scheduled for 2-3 weeks from today

[Elena V 5]

2 minutes ago, theprocess01 said:

No, she told me it should be scheduled for 2-3 weeks from today

Almost done ✅ congrats once again, I have my interview next Monday 

[jm17 7]

Had my interview today and it got approved! It was super fast—the only thing that was long was the waiting (I waited 30 minutes past my scheduled time).

 

The interview itself took roughly 10 minutes. Afterward, I got a call saying I had to go back in because the officer forgot to have me sign one of the documents. No biggie—luckily, I was still in the area.

 

I had a name change (dropped my mom's maiden name as my middle name), so the officer told me I’d have to take the oath in front of a judge, which is only done once a month. Two hours later, I received an email from USCIS saying my oath ceremony is scheduled next month!

 

Good luck to everyone who's still waiting for their interview!

[Scott001 128]

10 hours ago, top_secret said:

Well Success!!!!  kind of.  My wife is now a US Citizen!!!!!  

 Congrats. 
 

My wife passed hers as well. The oath ceremony will be in a few weeks. 
 

on a side note: we just got back from a week in SD. it was fricken freezing! I’ve gotten weak since moving away from SD and my wasn’t too pleased about me eating Mexican food everyday haha. 

[Kai G. Llewellyn 838]

Had my interview yesterday and passed! Interview wrapped at 12:15 and I went in for the Oath Ceremony at 1pm in the Seattle office. By 1:30pm, I was DONE and am now a freshly minted US Citizen~!

[top_secret 2,421]

Passports completed with expedited appointments at the passport agency this morning.  Both wife and daughters passport applications now show completed online with will call pickup of the actual passports scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. They did give us a little more hassle than we expected on proving actual custody of my wife's daughter for her derivative citizenship.  They were fine with her Philippine birth certificate showing only one parent as proof of sole legal custody.  But while we had insurance documents, state ID and several other proof of her living with us at our address, they still insisted on us getting additional school records for her.  But, they let us drop by her school and then e-mail attendance and enrolment records so it still all got sorted today.  Tomorrow afternoon they should have actual US Passports on hand.  Generally we'd give a really positive review for the San Diego Passport Agency too.  They seemed friendly and efficient.

[OldUser 6,714]

1 hour ago, top_secret said:

Passports completed with expedited appointments at the passport agency this morning.  Both wife and daughters passport applications now show completed online with will call pickup of the actual passports scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. They did give us a little more hassle than we expected on proving actual custody of my wife's daughter for her derivative citizenship.  They were fine with her Philippine birth certificate showing only one parent as proof of sole legal custody.  But while we had insurance documents, state ID and several other proof of her living with us at our address, they still insisted on us getting additional school records for her.  But, they let us drop by her school and then e-mail attendance and enrolment records so it still all got sorted today.  Tomorrow afternoon they should have actual US Passports on hand.  Generally we'd give a really positive review for the San Diego Passport Agency too.  They seemed friendly and efficient.

It's normal. Derivative citizenship is complex and confusing. Are you applying for daughter's N-600?

[top_secret 2,421]

11 hours ago, OldUser said:

It's normal. Derivative citizenship is complex and confusing.

 

That sounds like almost a quote of what the agent at the Passport Agency said. 🤣

 

11 hours ago, OldUser said:

Are you applying for daughter's N-600?

 

We already planned to file N-600 and I have one filled out online already.  I'll be finalizing a few details and submitting it in the next few days. Although we had fairly minimal problems getting our daughters passport, none the less they did ask for more evidence than the fairly good evidence what we had brought in the first place.  Yesterday it was just a quick chat with the very nice attendance clerk at her school and we had the extra records the Passport Agency wanted.  But I could see that if it was 40 years from now and any question came up renewing a passport then, reproducing the evidence we submitted yesterday at some time far in the future could be problematic.

[top_secret 2,421]

Actual physical passports are now on hand for wife and stepdaughter.  Original naturalization certificate was returned by hand today, along with and all other original documents.  The passport agency expedited process seems HUGELY beneficial to those who are able to use it.   All it requires is access to a Passport Agency and literally any type original travel plans within the next two weeks.  I just held up my phone to the glass window showing a trip to Cancun in the next couple of days.  That and pay $60 extra which is well worth it.  Passports %100 done.

[GreenB 111]

3 hours ago, top_secret said:

Actual physical passports are now on hand for wife and stepdaughter.  Original naturalization certificate was returned by hand today, along with and all other original documents.  The passport agency expedited process seems HUGELY beneficial to those who are able to use it.   All it requires is access to a Passport Agency and literally any type original travel plans within the next two weeks.  I just held up my phone to the glass window showing a trip to Cancun in the next couple of days.  That and pay $60 extra which is well worth it.  Passports %100 done.

Do you really have plans or you just showed a possible trip to Cancun?

[OldUser 6,714]

11 minutes ago, GreenB said:

Do you really have plans or you just showed a possible trip to Cancun?

 

Please let's keep it a secret 😃

Edited November 22 by OldUser

[top_secret 2,421]

14 minutes ago, GreenB said:

Do you really have plans or you just showed a possible trip to Cancun?

 

The verification consisted of me holding up my phone to the agents window whereby he confirmed there was some sort of random itinerary that departed to Cancun in two days and asked me to scroll down to the time of departure.  They say that even hotel reservations in Mexico or Canada would surface if it was a planned ground trip.  In our own case, some stuff has come up and I'm not sure we will be able to make the trip after all, but the airline reservation I casually flashed on my phone was legit at the time that I flashed it.  Last year there was some sort of crisis about passport appointment capacity that made headlines.  Today that is very much not the case and there was obvious blatant overcapacity.  Check passport agency appointments here to see how crowded it may be in a passport agency near you.  https://passportappointment.travel.state.gov/ (if you had some kind of plan for travel in 14 days) There is a good chance it is not crowded. 

[GreenB 111]

16 minutes ago, top_secret said:

 

The verification consisted of me holding up my phone to the agents window whereby he confirmed there was some sort of random itinerary that departed to Cancun in two days and asked me to scroll down to the time of departure.  They say that even hotel reservations in Mexico or Canada would surface if it was a planned ground trip.  In our own case, some stuff has come up and I'm not sure we will be able to make the trip after all, but the airline reservation I casually flashed on my phone was legit at the time that I flashed it.  Last year there was some sort of crisis about passport appointment capacity that made headlines.  Today that is very much not the case and there was obvious blatant overcapacity.  Check passport agency appointments here to see how crowded it may be in a passport agency near you.  https://passportappointment.travel.state.gov/ (if you had some kind of plan for travel in 14 days) There is a good chance it is not crowded. 

I don’t have travel plans at the moment but I will need to apply for myself soon (oath ceremony scheduled in 2 weeks). I wanted to see if your method would work for me too

[top_secret 2,421]

24 minutes ago, GreenB said:

I don’t have travel plans at the moment but I will need to apply for myself soon (oath ceremony scheduled in 2 weeks). I wanted to see if your method would work for me too

 

More specifically,  about 11 days before the scheduled naturalization interview we "planned a trip" for 3 days after the naturalization interview.   Then we scheduled a Passport Agency appointment online for the morning after the naturalization interview.  We reckoned that if for any reason there wasn't a same day oath, well,  passport agency appointments and travel plans are easily cancelled. And since there was a same day oath.  Passports were immediate.