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Boyinflorida   2

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Hey folks,

I got my Interview Appointment Letter yesterday and It says the following:

"You are hereby notified to appear for an interview on your Application for Naturalization at the date, time and place indicated above.Waiting room capacity is limited. Please do not arrive any earlier than 30 minutes before your scheduled appointment time. The proceeding will take about two hours. If for any reason you cannot keep this appointment....."

I don't understand. Are they all standard letters or it depends on the local office? Most of the interview experiences I have seen here the applicants are in and out in 10,15, 20 minutes. I am pretty much sure that my District office does not have "the same day" ceremony so I don't get it...

If I am scheduled on the 15th next month most likely my oath is going to be the next day because it's citizenship day...

AOS TIMELINE

10/11/07 AOS SENT 10/15 DELIVERED

10/23/07 NOA I-130, I-765, I-485 dated 10/19

10/27/07 EAD and AOS Bio received

11/09/07 RFE received. Case resumed.

11/20/07 Biometrics done

11/21/07 EAD&AOS appeared online

11/25/07 AOS&EAD touched!

12/28/07 EAD card production ORDERED

12/29/07 INTERVIEW letter scheduled for 03/25/08

01/07/08 EAD RECEIVED

02/28/08 I-485 touched, I-130 appeared on-line

03/25/08 INTERVIEW:APPROVED, YEA

03/26/08 WELCOME NOTICE SENT&I-130 APPROVED

03/28/08 Card Production Ordered!

04/02/08 Approval Notice Sent, I-485

04/04/08 GREEN CARD in the mail box!

I-751 TIMELINE

03/05/10 I-751 Sent, 03/06 Delivered to VSC, USPS Express

03/10/10 Check cashed

03/13/10 NOA dated 03/08 RECEIVED

03/23/10 BIO Notice dated 03/19 SCHEDULED for 04/14/.Case-Online.

04/09/10 Early Bio Done

04/18/10 I485&I765 touched on Sunday!

05/27/10 CARD PRODUCTION ORDERED!

06/17/10 GREEN CARD RECEIVED!

SEPTEMBER, 2011 U.S.CITIZENSHIP

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Hey folks,

I got my Interview Appointment Letter yesterday and It says the following:

"You are hereby notified to appear for an interview on your Application for Naturalization at the date, time and place indicated above.Waiting room capacity is limited. Please do not arrive any earlier than 30 minutes before your scheduled appointment time. The proceeding will take about two hours. If for any reason you cannot keep this appointment....."

I don't understand. Are they all standard letters or it depends on the local office? Most of the interview experiences I have seen here the applicants are in and out in 10,15, 20 minutes. I am pretty much sure that my District office does not have "the same day" ceremony so I don't get it...

If I am scheduled on the 15th next month most likely my oath is going to be the next day because it's citizenship day...

it's a standard letter, but you also have to factor in the waiting time. if it's in a large city and they have a lot of interviews the same day, their can be delays, in case you need to take time off from work, or something else.

I had to wait 1 hour, because they were behind in Miami.

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A standard letter and when my hubby did his interview at Oakland Park it took about 45 minutes before he was called in for the interview. The actual interview was 10-15 minutes. Here is a link to our Interview experience. Up to the time we went, there was no same-day oath, but I hope and pray that you don't have to wait as long as we did for the oath ceremony -- it took about 2 months from the interview to oath. I've heard of others who didn't have to wait as long.

All the best to you! Can't wait to hear about your experience.

I-130 for husband - see TIMELINE

10/23/2007 - Receive SSC (took 9 days from POE)

12/04/2007 - Receive Welcome Letter

12/14/2007 - Received 2nd Welcome Letter and Green card!!!

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N-400

09/21/2010 - Mailed application to Lewisville TX location

09/23/2010 - Information input in the system/check cashed

09/29/2010 - N-400 receipt received

09/30/2010 - RFE mailed

10/15/2010 - Biometrics appt (@8am) YAY!!!!

11/20/2010 - Received the yellow letter (dated 11/17/2010)

11/30/2010 - Case moved to the Testing & Interview stage (Email)

12/03/2010 - Received interview letter

01/06/2011 - Interview @ 10:15a...APPROVED!

02/12/2011 - Received oath ceremony letter (dated 02/10/2011)

02/18/2011 - Received descheduled oath ceremony letter (dated 2/15/2011)

02/26/2011 - Received new oath ceremony letter

03/02/2011 - Oath Ceremony @ 1:30p (IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!)

03/09/2011 - Oath Ceremony @ 1:30p...FINALLY A CITIZEN!!!

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I waited 2-1/2 hours before I even was called in for my interview and about 3-1/2 hours that I spent in that building total.

Plan on being there for 3 hours; be happy if it doesn't take that long.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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A standard letter and when my hubby did his interview at Oakland Park it took about 45 minutes before he was called in for the interview. The actual interview was 10-15 minutes. Here is a link to our Interview experience. Up to the time we went, there was no same-day oath, but I hope and pray that you don't have to wait as long as we did for the oath ceremony -- it took about 2 months from the interview to oath. I've heard of others who didn't have to wait as long.

All the best to you! Can't wait to hear about your experience.

2 months for the oath - that's a lot! Last year one of my friends had her application approved and oath taken in 2 months total in the same DO, Oakland park, FL. She had been a LPR for 16 years and may be that's why it was a quick procedure. She had the interview on Friday and they gave her a list of oath ceremonies and let her pick one and then she picked the following Wednesday in 5 days. Strange. She applied around June I believe and It may have been less busy but I don't know. I really hope that I will have my oath taken the day after the interview because it's a Citizenship day which will be observed a day earlier this year because 17th is Saturday... I think that they have big events like that they will try to put everybody in a big hall and make it more official...We'll see...

AOS TIMELINE

10/11/07 AOS SENT 10/15 DELIVERED

10/23/07 NOA I-130, I-765, I-485 dated 10/19

10/27/07 EAD and AOS Bio received

11/09/07 RFE received. Case resumed.

11/20/07 Biometrics done

11/21/07 EAD&AOS appeared online

11/25/07 AOS&EAD touched!

12/28/07 EAD card production ORDERED

12/29/07 INTERVIEW letter scheduled for 03/25/08

01/07/08 EAD RECEIVED

02/28/08 I-485 touched, I-130 appeared on-line

03/25/08 INTERVIEW:APPROVED, YEA

03/26/08 WELCOME NOTICE SENT&I-130 APPROVED

03/28/08 Card Production Ordered!

04/02/08 Approval Notice Sent, I-485

04/04/08 GREEN CARD in the mail box!

I-751 TIMELINE

03/05/10 I-751 Sent, 03/06 Delivered to VSC, USPS Express

03/10/10 Check cashed

03/13/10 NOA dated 03/08 RECEIVED

03/23/10 BIO Notice dated 03/19 SCHEDULED for 04/14/.Case-Online.

04/09/10 Early Bio Done

04/18/10 I485&I765 touched on Sunday!

05/27/10 CARD PRODUCTION ORDERED!

06/17/10 GREEN CARD RECEIVED!

SEPTEMBER, 2011 U.S.CITIZENSHIP

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