Biometrics for Naturalization

[madeforeachother 0]

Hi All,

I had my Biometrics appointment in Pittsburgh, PA on Feb14,2013 for Naturalization. How long do I have to wait for the Test? Just curious! Any useful comment will be appreciated. Hope you all are having a great weekend.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Hi All,

I had my Biometrics appointment in Pittsburgh, PA on Feb14,2013 for Naturalization. How long do I have to wait for the Test? Just curious! Any useful comment will be appreciated. Hope you all are having a great weekend.

There's a test?

Kidding. You mean the interview, which includes a civics test, and a basic English literacy test. That will vary by which local office is responsible for your state or district. Typically, it takes a couple months to get an interview once you finish the biometrics. If the local office is fully booked, you may have to wait a while.

Edited February 18, 2013 by The Patriot

[madeforeachother 0]

There's a test?

Kidding. You mean the interview, which includes a civics test, and a basic English literacy test. That will vary by which local office is responsible for your state or district. Typically, it takes a couple months to get an interview once you finish the biometrics. If the local office is fully booked, you may have to wait a while.

Appreciate your comment.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Technically, the test and the interview (albeit they're most oft done together) are two separate points.

In the case of my own naturalisation (applied 2004/10/15), I was asked at the biometrics if I wanted to take the test (and availed of the opportunity). As Patriot stated, it typically takes a few months between biometrics and the interview (if the interview is early enough in the day, you may be able to avail of a same-day oath).

[NickD 203]

You send your application to some lockbox located all over the country, they make your biometrics appointment, then ship everything to someplace in Missouri where they send this stuff to your local office where they schedule your interview. When we received those biometric appointments, gave us a deadline or our applications would be rejected. Also processing times were given, for my wife, said a year. But she was done in five months, stepdaughter only took four months from the time we sent in your application to her oath ceremony.

That surprised me due to the huge delays in our I-751 processing. We did have delays after the interview, misplaced my wife's file, ha, misplacing a four inch thick file, and wanted my stepdaughter to answer to battery charges against her when she was 17 months old. But my senator took care of that in a big hurry.

The only thing we could do, was to be there on time, regardless of the weather, price of gas, or other commitments. Wife had to schedule that day off, stepdaughter's interview occurred right during mid-terms, her professors rescheduled her tests so she wouldn't miss her that appointment. Weather forecasted really bad that day, so left five hours earlier. But the roads weren't that bad, we had five hours to kill.