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Officially done with our journey. Wife had her ceremony few days ago. Very displeased with the highly limited seating capacity for families.... (try standing with a 1 year old and a 4 year old).... Government at their finest.

Muito obrigado! Both of our daughters already have their US / Brasil passports so I'm not worried about that part. My wife has her 10 year green card that was just issued earlier this year, so we are good on that portion. That's very interesting they had someone reschedule their oath ceremony even though travel would be a few weeks past it? Did you see if they scrutinized anyone who had checked yes they had left the country during the N-400 period? I will talk with her and see what she wants to do. It would be a 5 month period out of the country so we skirt the 6-12 month ordeal, last absence she has had since April 2019 was in 2021, being out of the country for 2 months.

Thanks! I'll wait and see if anyone else can share a similar experience to my original post.

I'll be coming later in the year, so if worst case, we can apply for her passport same day of the event, she flies to Brasil using her Brazilian passport, and then I bring the US Passport so she can re-enter the USA. Interesting enough, the US embassy in Dominican Republic actually mentions this scenario of only traveling with the certificate of naturalization: https://do.usembassy.gov/do-not-travel-without-us-passport/

My wife got pregnant with our first child right before we started the K1 visa process. Did it complicate the process for K1? No, but it adds stress to everyone. Did I sweat bullets having to do CBRA + K1 Visa interviews 2 days in a row? Heck yes. I was worried the consulate would force us to do DNA testing to verify the child was mine since we weren't 'married' at the time. Funny enough, the consulate officer had me hold up my 1 month old daughter next to me, saw she REALLY looked like me, and then had me lower her and continued with the interview. I honestly think it may had helped the K1 visa approval that we had the CBRA interview the day before my wife's K1 visa interview.

As fate would have it, we received our naturalization ceremony date 2 weeks after my wife/kids are to fly to Brasil to spend 5 months there. My wife's mother isn't in the best of health, she wanted to spend significant time there with them, and has made several plans already in that 2 week interim. We also enrolled our oldest daughter in pre-school also. Does anyone have any experience to share if we decide to not change flight arrangements, and to request they reschedule her oath ceremony to sometime after Jan 3rd, 2024? Do we risk a high likelihood of having her case closed? We had been waiting since Feb of this year to be scheduled..

As fate would have it, we finally got scheduled for my wife's naturalization ceremony. The bad thing? She booked flight to go visit family / enroll our daughter in school in Brasil 2 weeks before the ceremony date....and will be gone till early Jan. Has anyone had any problems sending the letter into the local USCIS field office requesting a reschedule for that length of time?

We have a name change on ours. I-751 was automatically approved, card produced, and it continues to show "Oath Ceremony Will Be Scheduled"

Still waiting for our Oath Ceremony to be scheduled. Had the update back in February that it was ready to be scheduled....

You are welcome! Seems to be everyone's interviews are different. I suppose it's the typical mood of the IO.

So I was in the parking lot for my wife's N-400 interview, but did not come in. She was approved with no problems, but I was there in case I was requested (for combo interview). Her 751 hadn't been approved yet at that time as well, but the IO did her interview solely as a N-400.

Continue to wait on my wife's oath ceremony to be scheduled after the big approval. The final wait sucks! haha.

Just returned this past weekend from our Nashville field office interview on Thursday. I forgot which civics test questions the IO asked my wife, but she was successful in getting 6 right. After the reading/writing portion of the test, he hammered quite hard on some of her time in Switzerland (and the overstay that occurred...), how we met, if I was a US Citizen, did I file my taxes, and finally discussed her name change request. I did not go inside since I had our 2 daughters with us. He approved her at the end, but told us we'd potentially have to go to Chattanooga for our oath ceremony (Yeah....weird when there is a federal courthouse in East TN that does it that is closer....), but checked statuses online: Her I-751 was approved and card is being printed Her N-400 was approved and is currently awaiting Oath Ceremony scheduling.

We just got our interview scheduled for the Nashville Office - Feb 2nd.