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Best of luck! Exciting days! Our city has an annual sort of... I don't know... presentation for citizens of our city who got citizenship in the past year.Like a welcome party or something. I used to stop by every year if I knew it was happening, long before I knew I'd be in an international/immigration relationship. Maybe see if yours does the same?

 

Also, I loved this story when I heard it:

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/23/511165492/on-americas-doorstep-a-new-chapter-for-an-uzbek-family

 

And another one, about a National Park Ranger who runs naturalization ceremonies in the park he works in:

 

https://themoth.org/stories/one-hundred-percent

Marriage/ AOS Timeline:

23 Dec 2015: Legal marriage

23 Jan 2016: Wedding!

23 Jan 2016: "Blizzard of the Century", wedding canceled/rescheduled (thank goodness we were legally married first or we'd have had a big problem!) :sleepy:

24 Jan 2016: Small "civil ceremony" with friends and family who were snowed in with us. December was a bit of a secret and people had traveled internationally and knew we *had* to get married that weekend, and our December legal marriage was nothing but signing a piece of paper at our priest's kitchen table, without any sort of vows etc so this was actually a very special (if not legally significant) day. (L)

16 Apr 2016: Filed for AOS and EAD/AP (We delayed a bit-- no big rush, enjoying the USCIS break)

23 Apr 2016: Wedding! Finally! :luv:

27 Apr 2016: Electronic NOA1 for all 3 :dancing:
29 Apr 2016: NOA1 Hardcopy for all 3
29 Jul 2016: Online service request for late EAD (Day 104)
29 Jul 2016: EAD/AP Approved ~3 hours after online service request
04 Aug 2016: RFE for Green Card (requested medicals/ vaccination record. They already have it). :ranting:
05 Aug 2016: EAD/AP Combo Card arrived! (Day 111)
08 Aug 2016: Congressional constituent request to get guidance on the RFE. Hoping they see they have the form and approve!

K-1 Visa Timeline:

PLEASE NOTE. This timeline was during the period of time when TSC was working on I-129fs and had a huge backlog. The average processing time was 210+ days. This is in no way predictive of your own timeline if you filed during or after April 2015, unless CSC develops a backlog. A backlog is anything above the 5-month goal time listed on USCIS's site

14 Feb 2015: Mailed I-129f to Dallas Lockbox. (L) (Most expensive Valentine's card I've ever sent!)

17 Feb 2015: NOA1 "Received Date"
19 Feb 2015: NOA1 Notice Date
08 Aug 2015: NOA2 email! :luv: (173 days from NOA1)

17 Aug 2015: Sent to NVC

?? Aug 2015: Arrived at NVC

25 Aug 2015: NVC Case # Assigned

31 Aug 2015: Left NVC for Consulate in San Jose

09 Sep 2015: Consulate received :dancing: (32 days from NOA2)

11 Sep 2015: Packet 3 emailed from embassy to me, the petitioner (34 days from NOA2).

18 Sep 2015: Medicals complete

21 Sep 2015: Packet 3 complete, my boss puts a temporary moratorium on all time off due to work emergency :clock:

02 Oct 2015: Work emergency clears up, interview scheduled (soonest available was 5 business days away--Columbus Day was in there)

13 Oct 2015: Interview

13 Oct 2015: VISA APPROVED :thumbs: (236 days from NOA1)

19 Oct 2015: Visa-in-hand

24 Oct 2015: POE !

15 Dec 2015: Fiance's mother's B-2 visa interview: APPROVED! So happy she will be at the wedding! :thumbs:

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4 hours ago, MNB5314 said:

Also, we weren't expecting that it would be this quick for them to process my application. I didn't expect to get interviewed until after our planned wedding, but I went end of August. 

 

Oh well, probably should've changed in during naturalization application. 

 

Wouldn't it be weird though had I changed my name and then later on apply for marriage license with our names having same last names already? 

Well you can always use whichever name you want. 

 

I got married. Took his name. Got divorced. Kept his name. Got to know my fiancé. Got married in my maiden name although my driver's license stated my first married name. I brought my divorce paper with me to show that I'm allowed to use my maiden name. 

 

I did think about waiting to change my name for the oath ceremony but I went ahead and paid the expense of a new green card with my new married name. Not cheap at all... and slightly off topic haha

 

This is all in theory but you could have brought your birth certificate or something showing your maiden name if you wanted to get married with it. It would have shown in the marriage license this way and your naturalization certificate would have been in your married name. Like a prophet or something :D

 

It's a done deal in your case. But maybe someone else will look up this thread and read this 😊

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4 hours ago, CatherineA said:

Best of luck! Exciting days! Our city has an annual sort of... I don't know... presentation for citizens of our city who got citizenship in the past year.Like a welcome party or something. I used to stop by every year if I knew it was happening, long before I knew I'd be in an international/immigration relationship. Maybe see if yours does the same?

 

Also, I loved this story when I heard it:

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/23/511165492/on-americas-doorstep-a-new-chapter-for-an-uzbek-family

 

And another one, about a National Park Ranger who runs naturalization ceremonies in the park he works in:

 

https://themoth.org/stories/one-hundred-percent

That's great! I never heard of these welcome parties before. It would be great though if we have one. 

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8 minutes ago, Frage said:

Well you can always use whichever name you want. 

 

I got married. Took his name. Got divorced. Kept his name. Got to know my fiancé. Got married in my maiden name although my driver's license stated my first married name. I brought my divorce paper with me to show that I'm allowed to use my maiden name. 

 

I did think about waiting to change my name for the oath ceremony but I went ahead and paid the expense of a new green card with my new married name. Not cheap at all... and slightly off topic haha

 

This is all in theory but you could have brought your birth certificate or something showing your maiden name if you wanted to get married with it. It would have shown in the marriage license this way and your naturalization certificate would have been in your married name. Like a prophet or something :D

 

It's a done deal in your case. But maybe someone else will look up this thread and read this 😊

You're so right. Wish I'd given much though about this before. Anyways, thank you! 

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