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It was about 40 days.

As a much belated follow-up, the ceremony was still a drive up ceremony. There were two long lines of cars, and they'd take five cars from each line, have the people step out and walk up to a flag and do their oath there in the road. Take some pictures, back into cars, and off we go. Family parked nearby and walked over for the brief ceremony.

That is exactly what I was thinking. Thanks

A Chinese citizen is scheduled to take her U.S. citizenship oath in the near future, but we have some questions about using documents. If at all possible, she'd like to retain her Chinese passport. I have friends that have been able to keep their Chinese passports for decades, by simply never telling China that they are a U.S. Citizen. Is this still possible? Should she purchase round-trip tickets under her U.S. passport, or get two separate one-way tickets (ie. us->china with Chinese passport, and china->us with US passport)?

They do have a very small auditorium, which might hold 60-70 people. I think it is in the same building as the museum.

Got a reply on Facebook. It is usually outside, but moves indoors for rain ... which we have had an unusual mount of this year. Thanks!

I have left a couple messages on their voicemail. The outgoing message states that a park ranger will call back within 24 hours, but I haven't received any replies yet.

My wife has her Naturalization Oath Ceremony scheduled in a few weeks. My parents and sister would love to attend (as well as myself, son, and daughter). I've talked to USCIS twice, trying to find out whether guests will be permitted, and received two different answers. The USCIS website says that only the candidate will be permitted the ceremony, but I suspect this differs by venue. Does anyone know whether ceremonies at Cabrillo National Monument are typically conducted indoors, or outside? Can family come? Is there a way to directly contact the San Diego field office, to ask them? Thank you so much for all the years of help, here on this forum!