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We're supposed to have my husband's oath ceremony in Jefferson City, MO on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 which is about 3 hours away from where we live. There is a snow/ice storm headed for Jefferson City (and along our travel route) and is supposed to be at its peak on Wednesday morning right when his ceremony is to taking place.

 

Will they cancel the ceremony? I called the performing arts center where it's being held and the guy on the phone said they didn't know anything yet, but that his manager had a conversation with someone from USCIS towards the end of last week about the upcoming weather.

 

I chatted with Emma on USCIS, and the live agent said they wouldn't know until the morning of the ceremony if it would be cancelled. Considering it's a long drive for us (especially with a 2 year old), we are leaving the day before (tomorrow) in order to be there on time Wednesday morning.

 

Has anyone ever run into this issue? 

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Everything I've read says that in most cases they do not make a decision on office closings/ceremony cancellations until the night before or the morning of. 

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13 hours ago, mryrth said:

We're supposed to have my husband's oath ceremony in Jefferson City, MO on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 which is about 3 hours away from where we live. There is a snow/ice storm headed for Jefferson City (and along our travel route) and is supposed to be at its peak on Wednesday morning right when his ceremony is to taking place.

 

Will they cancel the ceremony? I called the performing arts center where it's being held and the guy on the phone said they didn't know anything yet, but that his manager had a conversation with someone from USCIS towards the end of last week about the upcoming weather.

 

I chatted with Emma on USCIS, and the live agent said they wouldn't know until the morning of the ceremony if it would be cancelled. Considering it's a long drive for us (especially with a 2 year old), we are leaving the day before (tomorrow) in order to be there on time Wednesday morning.

 

Has anyone ever run into this issue? 

Is there any chance you could travel the night before?

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beloved_dingo   1,994

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1 hour ago, Rocio0010 said:

Is there any chance you could travel the night before?

 

51 minutes ago, OldUser said:

That's what I'd do. Travel the night before, stay at hotel / airbnb for a night and attend ceremony without worrying about driving in bad weather conditions. 

The OP was already planning to do this:

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we are leaving the day before (tomorrow) in order to be there on time Wednesday morning

I think their concern was travelling that far and spending the night only to find out the ceremony wasn't even happening. 

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9 minutes ago, beloved_dingo said:

I think their concern was travelling that far and spending the night only to find out the ceremony wasn't even happening. 

Sadly, many things are out of our control. 

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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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beloved_dingo is correct. We had planned to travel today in preparation of the ceremony tomorrow.

 

We just received an email saying that it's cancelled due to weather. Thanks for all the insight. Glad we were able to get confirmation before we drove that far.

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3 minutes ago, mryrth said:

beloved_dingo is correct. We had planned to travel today in preparation of the ceremony tomorrow.

 

We just received an email saying that it's cancelled due to weather. Thanks for all the insight. Glad we were able to get confirmation before we drove that far.

Oh no.  I'm sorry to hear that.  Hopefully they will reschedule soon.

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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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