ADW & JOP

Also, having just gone through a similar passport situation, your last option is risky and stressful. This is travel season and demand for a passport is very high. Everyone is trying to get a passport right now and those urgent appointments aren’t always available. You would need to call, possibly wait hours on the phone, disconnect and repeat, then if you are lucky enough to get an appointment, may need to travel to where that appointment is, ie Hawaii, etc. Even though I was fortunate enough to get my passport, if had to do it again, I would have deferred the oath ceremony.

When I went to my naturalization interview, the officer asked if I was traveling in the next few weeks. I told her I would be traveling in 6 weeks and she made me feel it would be enough time to get a passport so she sent me to the same day oath ceremony. Fortunately, I was able to get my passport in time. A person I met at the interview told his officer he needed to travel internationally that weekend to see his children so they deferred his oath ceremony to another day. Let your officer know your travel plans.

It worked for me in San Diego. I applied for i751 in 01/2022, then heard nothing after biometrics. I applied for N400 on March 1, then had my combo interview/naturalization on the same day May 10.

Preamble: I submitted my N400 on March 1, 2023, received an interview letter for N400 in early April, interviewed and prepared for a combination interview on May 10. The immigration officer asked if I was leaving in the next few weeks, I explained I will be leaving in 1.5 months to attend my brother's wedding. She indicated that that should be enough time to expedite a US passport, so sent me for naturalization on the same day. I didn't realize that I could not fall back on my Canadian passport to return to the US until this was mentioned during the naturalization ceremony, so I went back to the check-in and they explained they had already destroyed my green card. After the interview, I researched for passport offices, but there was no available appointments at USPS for a few weeks. Fortunately, I found a local university that allows for walk-in appointments and I submitted an expedited passport application with expedited shipping. 5/10: Submitted application 5/15: Called NPIC for assistance, indicated they cannot book anything that far in advance (appointments within 5 days of flight only); learned online that these appointments are difficulty to come by. 5:16: In-Progress at Locator 35. 5/19: Wrote to my senators regarding the situation and asked for assistance. Received response from one of the caseworkers at one of the senator's office indicating an inquiry has been submitted on behalf. This was within the hour. 5/22: Approved 5/23: Shipped 5/25: Arrived with naturalization certificate in the same UPS mail. Looking back, I would have deferred naturalization since I wasn't in a rush. Everything about this process has been dead slow, but this last leg went by so fast that I didn't have time to do all my research. Fortunately, it worked out and now our journey is over. 😀

I submitted my N400 application on March 1, 2023. I got an appointment for a N400 interview today in San Diego. I was not anticipating things to move so fast so I attached a letter after receiving my N400 appointment letter requesting to convert it to a combo interview with a pending I751. I added it as a document for my N400 submission and messaged them through myUSCIS but never heard back. Regardless, I prepare for both and went with my spouse today. Both I751 and N400 were approved today and I even had the same day path ceremony and now at the passport office, hoping to expedite a passport before my travel plans in mid to late June.