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LKMK

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  • Birthday 08/02/1973

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  • Gender
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  • City
    St. Augustine
  • State
    Florida

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  • Immigration Status
    Naturalization (approved)
  • Place benefits filed at
    Vermont Service Center
  • Local Office
    Jacksonville FL
  • Country
    Philippines

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  1. Congratulations! We got caught up in the whole COVID delay. It took over 3 years from ROC to citizenship. You guys are so lucky!!!
  2. It took 13 months from N-400 filing to approval. BTW we also had a combo I751/N400 interview.
  3. Yes. We lucked out. Our Officer was super nice! Wishing you the best as well!
  4. I brought so much information that wasn't needed to the interview. But I felt like it was necessary to be better safe than sorry. I brought all of the original birth certificates, marriage certificate, passports, etc. and "new documents" since filing I-751/N-400. The officer did not ask for those. I gave them a copy of my newest Tax return and she took my son's birth certificate to scan a copy into the system. As far as the questions the officer asked were simple...just full name, DOB, address, phone number. I can't recall anything else. Just simple conversation. She said that our file was complete and asked if I wanted to give her anything else. That's when I gave a copy of our latest tax return. The officer than said she was recommending approval of the I-751 and if my wife was "ready" to take the citizenship exam, because she wasn't going to issue a permanent resident card if she was ready for the exam. My wife said "yes" she was ready so I stepped out of the interview so she wouldn't have stress of me being there. It took about 15 minutes. For the N-400 interview, my wife was asked 6 questions: 1. Name a territory of the United States? 2. How many Amendments to the Constitution are there? 3. How many Supreme Court Justices are there? 4. What is the name of the Chief Justice? 5. What is the political party of the President? 6. How many years is the president elected for? Then she asked why my wife hasn't been back to the Philippines in the last 5 years and she said that was because her Philippine passport has been expired. She asked her to read a sentence and then write a sentence. Then they just talked a little while and that was all. Very informal and very easy my wife said. The Officer then said she recommended approval of her N-400 and would go tell the front office to include her in the next Oath Ceremony and to print the Certificate of Naturalization. This part took about 20-30 minutes. We waited a few hours until the next scheduled Oath Ceremony. They did the Oath and gave her the Certificate of Naturalization and then we were on our way.
  5. I filed a FOIA for both (on the same request) and coincidence or not, we received a N-400 interview date a month later.
  6. Did you try filing a FOIA with USCIS? Whether or not it helped us, I don't know. However, shortly after we filled a FOIA for both the I-751 and N-400 we received an interview date for the N-400 1 month later. We then scheduled an Infopass appointment to receive an ADIT stamp and I asked the Officer if he could transfer our I-751 case so we could do a combo interview. He said he would put a note in the system so the they would conduct a combo interview. Then 2 days prior to our N-400 interview we received a call from USCIS saying they would be conducting a combo interview and emailed a letter with documents to bring.
  7. Well my friends...This visa journey is finally over and my wife is now a US Citizen!!! Her I-751/N-400 combo interview and cases were approved the same day and my wife was able to do the Oath Ceremony and receive her Certificate of Naturalization the same day as well. WOW! It's such a relief to have everything finished. It’s been a long, stressful, and painful process, but happy to finally have this all behind us. Thank you for all the support and advice you all have given along the way and I'm happy to have contributed as well. Good luck to all those still waiting and most of all hang in there! I’ll be praying for you all. Again, good luck and I’ll be awaiting your good news soon!!!
  8. Our I-751 was transferred to our local office but no update after that. Then we received an interview date for N-400. Just so happens we needed a new I-551 stamp in her passport so we scheduled an info pass and when we went for the stamp we asked if they would be conducting a combo interview. The officer put a note in the system and said they would have to adjudicate the I-751 before approving the N-400. Hoping all goes well tomorrow.
  9. We received a call from USCIS 2 days prior to the N-400 interview. The officer told us they would conduct a combo I-751/N-400 interview. They confirmed the date and emailed us a letter with documentation to bring with us. Basically the letter said to bring everything. So the call was out of the blue, but appreciated.
  10. I'm really tempted to only bring the "new" documents since we filed? This would cover a year worth of information. What do you think?
  11. To clarify, so you only brought updates to everything you filed? But not the "old documents" they already had?
  12. What evidence did you bring to your I-751 Interview?
  13. We recieved a call today from USCIS and said we would be doing a combo interview this Thursday. Thank goodness. So hopefully all goes well and my wife will get her citizenship this week! BTW did you bring all of your documents with you to your ROC/MN400 interview? I submitted everything online, however USCIS emailed me a letter saying to provide all documents to support a bonafide relationship. Should I just print everything to be on the safeside? Or would you call it a day knowing they have all documents already in my file?
  14. Thanks Scandi, I appreciate it. We are praying for a combo interview so we can finally be finished with the process.
  15. We filed online. I certainly hope my wife is prepared. I told her to start studying hard! LOL
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