Complicated Situation

[echang03 0]

Hey everyone, my name is Eric and I'm currently a college student in New York City.

I applied to citizenship in November, and I'm scheduled for an interview in early May. I was originally planning to get my citizenship before the summer and spend the summer in Taiwan and study abroad in Shanghai for the fall semester. However, a mailing situation came up in February and I missed my interview (hence it is now rescheduled to early May). Because of this mailing situation, I'm not going to finish my citizenship process before the summer. So I thought I could interview in May, go back to Taiwan on 6/1 for 2 months, and then do the oath when I come back. This case I would have to give up studying abroad next semester.

However, next semester is really the only semester which I can study abroad, and I was thinking if this could logistically work.

Interview in May

Fly back to Taiwan on 6/1 with my Taiwanese passport

Fly to Shanghai for study abroad on 9/1 with my Taiwanese documents

(hopefully schedule my oath around October-ish or anytime in the Fall) My address is with my cousin so there will be no mailing issues

Fly back to New York, do the oath, expedited passport service, and my physical presence will still be satisfied.

Fly back to Shanghai with new American passport.

Can someone please go over this and see if this is possible?

Thank you SO much

Eric

Edited April 19, 2010 by echang03

[Emma Dee 0]

Hey everyone, my name is Eric and I'm currently a college student in New York City.

I applied to citizenship in November, and I'm scheduled for an interview in early May. I was originally planning to get my citizenship before the summer and spend the summer in Taiwan and study abroad in Shanghai for the fall semester. However, a mailing situation came up in February and I missed my interview (hence it is now rescheduled to early May). Because of this mailing situation, I'm not going to finish my citizenship process before the summer. So I thought I could interview in May, go back to Taiwan on 6/1 for 2 months, and then do the oath when I come back. This case I would have to give up studying abroad next semester.

However, next semester is really the only semester which I can study abroad, and I was thinking if this could logistically work.

Interview in May

Fly back to Taiwan on 6/1 with my Taiwanese passport

Fly to Shanghai for study abroad on 9/1 with my Taiwanese documents

(hopefully schedule my oath around October-ish or anytime in the Fall) My address is with my cousin so there will be no mailing issues

Fly back to New York, do the oath, expedited passport service, and my physical presence will still be satisfied.

Fly back to Shanghai with new American passport.

Can someone please go over this and see if this is possible?

Thank you SO much

Eric

Eric,

I may be misunderstanding this... would you not want to have your US citizenship BEFORE you leave? If all goes well, you may be able to have an oath ceremony pretty quickly (possibly even on the same day), apply for a passport (expedited should take around 2 weeks) and then be free to go and not worry about physical presence requirements, mailing address, etc.

(EXCEPT, if you would intentionally NOT want to have the US citizenship while studying abroad due to higher tuition...?)

Make sure you ask about your Oath Date at the interview, and maybe even discuss your situation and the urgency, if the IO is open to helping.

Good luck on your journey!

[echang03 0]

Eric,

I may be misunderstanding this... would you not want to have your US citizenship BEFORE you leave? If all goes well, you may be able to have an oath ceremony pretty quickly (possibly even on the same day), apply for a passport (expedited should take around 2 weeks) and then be free to go and not worry about physical presence requirements, mailing address, etc.

(EXCEPT, if you would intentionally NOT want to have the US citizenship while studying abroad due to higher tuition...?)

Make sure you ask about your Oath Date at the interview, and maybe even discuss your situation and the urgency, if the IO is open to helping.

Good luck on your journey!

Hey thanks for the reply. I would love to have my citizenship before I leave, but I already planned to fly to Hawaii for a wedding and straight to Taiwan after that for the summer)I'm in the New York area, and I don't think I've seen around the forums that anyone has had same day oath. But I'll think about not going to the wedding and delaying my flight to Taiwan till later...

[echang03 0]

Does anyone know if we can ask the interview officers about oath dates? Or are they gonna pull the usual bureaucratic response and say they don't know?