MexicoExpat

Yea, we ended up doing a walk-in this morning. They did ask us to wait behind the people with an appointment (about 10 people) but they were really understanding and gave us no push back.

My wife filed her N-400 recently and within 2 days was assigned a biometrics appointment. We just received the notice in the mail today and her appointment is in about 2 weeks. Problem is, she is 9 months pregnant and ready to give birth any day now, though the birth could be just a few days before our appointment. Either way, we won't be able to make it. The baby will be only a few days to 2 weeks old and it is our first - we know we won't be prepared for such a big outing to the USCIS office an hour away from our house at that time. I'm trying to reschedule online, but it's only giving me the option to push it back another week, which still isn't enough time. I've tried calling the number in the notice numerous times to try and reschedule, but every time it just directs me to the website to reschedule. If i keep pushing to talk to a real person, it will just tell me it will hang up on me if I continue to ask for an agent or will hang up on me for that reason. What are my options here? We don't want to abandon her naturalization application, but we had no idea this would all happen so quickly - we thought there would be a few months before the first appointment. Should I just wait as long as I can before the appointment to reschedule it as far out as it will let me from that point? Potentially reschedule it again after that if we need more time? We're having nightmare flashbacks now to the whole green card process we went through and how everything was so rigid and inflexible - this really isn't what we need right now during such a high tension time. I get this is our fault for filing so close to the birth, but this seems like the type of thing where we should be able to have a little more flexibility.

Thanks, I thought more about it last night, and we will just both update our address with USCIS today. The way I'm seeing it is if I hadn't done it before, then we're making things right. If we had done it before, then maybe it looks weird in their system, but we had already done the right thing, and if ever question we aren't in the wrong because we already did the right thing at the right time. I was operating under the assumption that we would need to specify a date of our move on the form, but upon checking the forms I realized it doesn't ask that. If it did, it would put us in a position of either needing to admit our fault or misrepresent the date of our move. I know the severity of misrepresenting information and would not do so, but it's a moot point anyways as the date isn't asked for.

The problem is I can’t remember if we both actually submitted our change of address when we moved the first time. The move was also out of state, to the state we are now and will be applying for her citizenship from. She will need to be a resident of this state (she already is) for 90 days to apply for her citizenship here. We will be moving again, within the the same state we are now, right before we are eligible to submit her documents to apply for citizenship, at which point we would both need to update our addresses again as well. Not being able to remember if we ever submitted our first change of address from the previous state and not being able to verify the current address anywhere leaves me with a few options. 1. Update our address to where we are now as if we never did it when we first moved. The risk is that we had already done it and it triggers something strange in the system 2. Do nothing until we move again in a few months and update our addresses then. The risk is that if we hadn't done this before when we first moved, then USCIS wouldn’t see her as a resident of this state for 90 days and any proof that she was puts us in violation of not updating our address. It also delays when we can apply. I just can’t believe there’s no way to check what address they have for us or to see what forms I’ve submitted with them before and on what date. Maybe there is a way I can request a form to be mailed to me? I can still receive mail from the previous address, so wherever it arrives would be my answer.

My wife is getting all her ducks in a row to naturalize (she is a current legal permanent resident). We have moved since arriving in the US and will move again just prior to starting the naturalization process. For the life of me, I can’t find any proof that we have submitted the first change of address to USCIS. We both have USCIS accounts set up and forgetting to do something like this is not like us at all. I don’t think we’ve forgotten, I just can’t prove to myself that we actually have. Is there any way to check and see the address that is currently on file for us? If it’s not updated then I know we need it to update to immediately. But I don’t want to update it if it was already updated 2 years ago correctly. Is there any where we can check this to put our minds at ease?