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I wouldn’t say up to two weeks later. My N-400 interview was 11/5 at the San Diego field office and I was told I can expect my oath some time in December or January.

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).

Oh wow that’s crazy! Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed my oath ceremony will still be in November so I won’t be needing any of that.

Thanks for all the info. I’ve been eyeing the UCSD passport office appointments and it looks pretty open indeed. I wouldn’t qualify for the “14 days international travel plans” expedited scheduling but am hoping I could somehow make it case that there are the Christmas holidays right before which will make applications lag a bit, hence me trying to get the application in earlier. Their expedited processing times are currently 2-3 weeks to receive a passport. If I get my oath within a week of my interview I am not too worried, which seems to be the case for most San Diego interviews. I realized that I don’t think I’d qualify for same day oath given that my appointment is at 2.30 p.m. 😔

Hey, my interview was just scheduled today for Nov 5 in San Diego. My application date is July 3rd. Does anyone know whether oath ceremonies will be held same day in San Diego or shortly after the interview date? I see in other threads that oath ceremonies can be a month after interview. I am just trying to see what I should do about an international flight that I have January 2nd. When I initially saw that processing times are 7 months I thought I was fine to book this trip but now I’m worried if the oath ceremony isn’t close to the scheduling date whether I’d have enough time to get an American passport.

Wait, I genuinely didn’t know that or never really thought that through. I have friends with multiple passports that use their home country’s passport when they fly home instead of their U.S. passport.

This all makes sense, thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I would remain in the country for any of those cases that USCIS requires me to attend an appointment. I would still also have my valid German passport for traveling before getting my U.S. passport. I will file the I90 error on current Greencard and submit it with my N-400 application.

Do you mind explaining why? For the I-90 that makes sense since I will have to submit my current Greencard and I’ve always been sketched out about just flying with a NOA vs the actual physical card. But why should I remain within the U.S. for my N-400? Just curious. I usually fly to Germany every 6 months to help my grandmother with appointments and other chores. I never stay longer than 2-3 weeks. I obviously would remain in the country to attend any USCIS appointments (biometrics or interview etc).

I will have to submit my current Greencard for the I-90 and I am flying out of the country minimum every 6 months so I’m hesitant to do this. Thanks for the feedback though.

I am flying out of the country for 3 weeks on June 18 so I am hesitant on filing a change to my Greencard while I am actively using it. I can’t believe I never noticed this.

Hey, I was getting my N-400 papers ready since June 27th of this year, Germany will finally allow dual citizenship again without needing a permit from the German government. When it asked me on the form to submit my “resident since”-date I noticed that on my current 10 year Greencard it says I became a resident in 2020. Going by that date I wouldn’t be eligible to become a US citizen yet. That is not true though. I became a lawful permanent resident in 2018. My conditional 2 year Greencard shows the correct date. Am I going to run into issues if I apply now submitting a picture of my current Greencard which shows the wrong date? (Please see picture of both cards) Any advice is appreciated.

Yes, that’s what they’re doing right now, just to be safe. The US citizen parents will both be sponsors.

Actually I just googled it again and found this regarding the use of the intending immigrants income: Use of Intending Immigrant’s Income. If the sponsor does not meet the income requirement on the basis of his or her own income and/or assets, the sponsor may also count the intending immigrant’s income if (1)(a) the intending immigrant is either the sponsor’s spouse or (b) has the same principal residence as the sponsor, and (2) the preponderance of the evidence shows that the intending immigrant’s income results from the intending immigrant’s lawful employment in the United States or from some other lawful source that will continue to be available to the intending immigrant after he or she acquires permanent resident status. The prospect of employment in the United States that has not yet actually begun does not count toward meeting this requirement. So, this makes me think whether the RFE is simply just for the missing sum in the box?! But then why are they asking for a sponsor?!

I was wondering that too but then why are they even asking for that in part 6 No. 8? Do you really think it's just the sum that made them send the RFE requesting a sponsor? From the other RFEs for I-864 that I saw here on VJ who were just missing supporting documents or missed a field, they never asked for a sponsor in the RFE. I wonder whether USCIS thinks that his VA Disability is too close to the poverty guidelines. $24,650 poverty guideline vs $28k in VA Disability (sorry, I wrote 26k before, it is $28k). If we respond to the RFE and it is wrong again, are we risking a NOID?

Hello, I helped a friend file her AOS papers adjusting from a Student Visa (F1). She received an RFE for their I-864 and we are struggling to figure out A) what was wrong and B) have questions on how to respond. I attached the RFE. Any help/insight is greatly appreciated! About the situation: - Petitioner (US Citizen) is a military veteran looking for a job. He receives 26k/year for disability. Since these are tax-exempt, they do not show on his tax return. So we had to put a reported annual federal income of just $5k down, that showed on his tax returns (previous years are similar). Because of this considerable discrepancy, we added a letter of explanation that talked about where his money is coming from and why it is not showing on his tax returns - Beneficiary (Immigrant) is on OPT and makes $44k a year, so also well above the 125% poverty guidelines. These are the documents we provided: Letter of Explanation for I-864 Copy of U.S citizen birth certificate Transcript of federal income tax return of most recent year Petitioner VA Letter of disability Petitioner Copy of GI bill pay stubs from the past year DD-214 Past 12 months of Bank Statements from the Account that receives the Direct Deposits VA ID Card Beneficiary employment letter Beneficiary Copy of most recent pay stubs Now they received an RFE and we are not sure what is wrong. We did notice that we forgot to enter a sum in Part 6. Do they want them to get a sponsor? Or is just the sum that is missing and that is what the RFE is for? Thank you!