Emw2290

It completely depends on each office. Some offices even do same day ceremonies. What I know is specific for Milwaukee.

So glad you don’t have to wait!! I think the court house oaths are for name change and I suspect they only happen once a month. While I was waiting at his interview, I asked the security people if they had any idea how often they have the ceremonies. He said typically they have them every Wednesday. My husband is shortening his ridiculously long latin name (2 first names and 3 last. His parents also included his maternal grandmother’s last name). It unfortunately hasn’t made anything easy in the American system. We also learned that we can’t go to social security the same day to update his name. The SS website says you have to wait 10 days after naturalization, thus delaying passport application.

It’s not really after everything we’ve been through. We were hoping it was going to be 2 weeks earlier just to see if we could get a passport by the end of the year. With the name change we read you have to wait 10 days to update social security, thus delaying a new drivers license and passport. A little disappointed to find out you can’t do it same/next day.

Just got our notice today. It’s for September 14th. But he’s shortening his name so he has to do his oath at the courthouse. We aren’t sure if that really makes a difference.

My husband passed the interview!! We had thought it would take about 20 minutes once called back, but it actually took over an hour. The letter does say to allow up to 2 hours. His appointment was scheduled at 2pm, the officer was running 25 minutes behind. Once started the civics questions were super fast, but then the officer had several questions about the application and my husband’s immigration history. It was very confusing for the officer to understand. Back story: my husband was illegal as a minor, returned to Brazil as a minor, never deported, never pretended to be a citizen. His father has since naturalized but never sponsored his son. The officer asked if he had a copy of his father’s naturalization certificate (we do not since it wasn’t related to any of our applications). We had submitted a letter explaining all of this in all our prior files so why it came up in the interview I don’t really understand, but whatever. Our finances were also scrutinized. My job confuses people. I travel for work and our taxes are complicated. But our permanent address and tax home is Wisconsin. It’s a good thing I sent him in with ALL our original documents going back to K1. I don’t remember if I ever posted that our ROC was approved about 3 weeks prior, so this was not a combo interview. Glad it’s over. Hoping to get our oath date soon!!

Just that they were familiar with our case and asked very specific things. They were familiar that my husband is not employed while I’m working as a travel nurse. They brought up that I traveled to Canada by myself while I worked in Maine.