i live in new york city and am curious whether new york is one of those 'districts' that i read about which take longer to process naturalization requests, because it has a very high immigrant population...
i read 5 months to 2 years, based on where you file...is new york closer to two years?
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I wish I could help you but I truly have no idea....the only thing you can do is check the official processing times on the USCIS website although they are not always all that reliable unfortunately.... 
It looks like NYC is currently about 7 to 8 months. My wife is currently on her 4th month. However some friends of ours that just finished up in NYC took about 10 months, although they messed up some paper work.
[quote name='babybluesusie' date='Aug 22 2007, 02:28 PM' post='1140195']
i live in new york city and am curious whether new york is one of those 'districts' that i read about which take longer to process naturalization requests, because it has a very high immigrant population...
My wife and I are searching for a fast place also. We are in the LA district but can move anywhere. Where did you read about the slowness of the higher immigrant populated districts? We have been told it was the opposite, that the districts wait till they have enough people to naturalize thereby making it a longer time in less populated areas. We were considering Arkansas because we had such good luck there with the green card interview, advance parole and overall speed. But we are hearing from immigrants there that it is taking a year and a half.
Bob
i live in new york city and am curious whether new york is one of those 'districts' that i read about which take longer to process naturalization requests, because it has a very high immigrant population...
My wife and I are searching for a fast place also. We are in the LA district but can move anywhere. Where did you read about the slowness of the higher immigrant populated districts? We have been told it was the opposite, that the districts wait till they have enough people to naturalize thereby making it a longer time in less populated areas. We were considering Arkansas because we had such good luck there with the green card interview, advance parole and overall speed. But we are hearing from immigrants there that it is taking a year and a half.
Bob
Update
We just got a letter today for the interview for Oct 24. So it seems NYC might be down to 6 months... for application to interview anyway... not sure how long it takes to get the certificate after the interview.)
We just got a letter today for the interview for Oct 24. So it seems NYC might be down to 6 months... for application to interview anyway... not sure how long it takes to get the certificate after the interview.)
thanks for the info, i actually forgot that i posted in this forum until now, so sorry for the lack of a timely response...i simply read that some places take longer than others...i didnt know which category nyc generally fell into, but was curious whether it was generally fast or slow...this is wayyyyyyyy ahead of time for me, my fiance is not even in the US yet, but i figure it cant hurt to start educating myself early =)
thanks again
thanks again
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