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| Portland OR |  Review on April 9, 2024: |
Lois K
Rating:  | Review Topic: Naturalization
Reporting on Biometrics in March 2024, then interview and oath in April 2024
-Easy to find. Paid parking lot a half block away.
-Friendly staff, TSA (airport)-style security check to enter the building.
-Biometrics to the left. Interviews up the stairs on the right, check in upstairs before you sit down.
-Oath is downstairs on the left but first wait in the same room as where you waited for the interview.
-Biometrics lasted under 5 minutes
-Interview lasted 11 minutes (I timed it from the waiting room)
-Oath was 30 minutes of prepping the oath-takers then they bring in the guests and the ceremony itself is another 30 minutes
-After the ceremony there was time to take pictures and there were people there helping all the new citizens sign up to vote (not a function of the USCIS office, they were staff and volunteers who were given a small space to do the registrations)
-The surprise was how techie it was - writing the sentence in English on a tablet, signing the tablet, retaking biometrics at the interview to electronically compare them to the data on file already.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #33097