Magi Stark

Oath scheduled! Finally! The wait is KILLING me! D= Took about a month from when the application was approved. I opted to change my name. That probably delayed the application a little, and as far as I know, Minneapolis/St. Paul usually has one big ceremony per month. Minneapolis average processing times for N-400 is 7.5 months, which if everything goes as planned will have been almost exactly that. I was an early 90-day window applicant, but I have seen several other Minneapolis cases that are post 5-full years and no name change move incredibly fast, as little as 3-4 months to complete the entire process from application to oath ceremony. 2/10/25 - Online application submitted. NOA + Biometrics Reuse (e-docs). 2/14/25 - API update indicating background check was completed. (FTA0) 4/11/25 - API update, no new code. Progress tab 3 months. Milestone/Overall Days reset to 74/104. Time until case decision/next milestone 3/2 months. 5/10/25 - API update, no new code. Progress tab 4 months. Milestone/Overall Days reset to 67/104. Time until case decision/next milestone 4/3 months. 5/11/25 - Progress tab 3 months. Milestone/Overall Days reset to 43/80. Time until case decision/next milestone 3/2 months. 5/28/25 - Interview Scheduled for 7/7/25. API code FJ. Progress tab 4 months. Milestone/Overall Days reset to 99/99. Time until case decision/next milestone 4/4 months. 7/7/25 - Interview 7/8/25 - N-400 Approval + In line for Oath scheduling. 7/10/25 - Oath cancelled + Oath will be scheduled. 8/16/25 - Oath Scheduled for 9/19/25. API Update. Event code SC. Milestone/Overall Days reset to 63/63. Time until case decision/next milestone 2/2 months.

Best of luck!

Nope. 😭 Maybe that's why. Who you praying to? Jesus and I don't really like each other...hahahaha

I didn't realize there are people here from February who don't have an interview date yet. Hoping those waiting for the interview get it very soon!

I meant HERE. =P

Am I the last one from February still not done with the process? I still haven't received my oath date! 😭

Yeeeeeeeeees 😫😩😭

My interview was already on 7/7.

No, BUT... I deleted all social media off my phone out of an abundance of caution anyway. Also, all of my social media accounts are private, none of them have a public picture of me, none of them have my real name, and the email I use for social media isn't the same I use for USCIS. So even if they wanted to, they'd never find anything about me, lol.

I'm furiously Googling, but everything seems to indicate they either use GC picture if they re-use biometrics, or they use the picture taken during N-400 biometrics. 😭

LOL. Hell no. You seen that smiley chihuahua pic floating around? That's EXACTLY what I look like. I wanted to smile, but I never got a warning the pic was coming, so it was a very unfortunate angle + timing + gestures. UGH. I LOATH looking at that picture. FML!

WHAT!!! 😱 Somehow I did not know this. I thought they took a picture before the oath, and that's why we had to show up early. UGH! That GC picture is seriously one of the ugliest pictures of me of all time. I still have a grudge with that person for telling me I looked "fine". 😒.

Still waiting on the oath ceremony scheduling, but I have TWO international trips in the next few months, and considering my luck I just know it's going to be either during or right before, lol. So an emergency passport is in the forecast. I know I have to be within 14 days of the trip to be able to make an emergency appointment. Can I schedule an appointment before for after the ceremony, or do I have to wait to be a citizen to even make the appointment? I don't want to inadvertently make a "false claim of citizenship". Example: Oath is 8/21. Trip is on 8/28. Make appointment on 8/18 (not a citizen yet) for 8/25 (citizen). Also, how certain is it to be able to even get an appointment? Are there cases where appointments are just not available, period? Under no circumstances am I rescheduling the oath. So I want to plan ahead to minimize the economic impact on cancelling/rescheduling my trips.

Only from anecdotal evidence based on what you find online. Even then, just because it happened to certain people doesn't mean it happens to everyone at the same field office. I used Google: "N-400 <field office> same-day oath". If you add "reddit" or "visa journey" or another immigration forum at the end, you can narrow your search even more. You can also ask directly on one of the N-400 facebook groups to see if anyone has in the same field office has a recent experience.

Can confirm, 7/7 interview. The civics test is oral, and there are no multiple choices given to you. You have to know the answer, and the answer must be oral as well. The written test is on a tablet. You are given a tablet to read a sentence. Then you have to write that same sentence (at least that was my case) back on the tablet.