Who had their oath ceremony in Brooklyn, NY?

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Just trying to gauge other people's experiences with Camden Plaza in Brooklyn.

 

My oath ceremony is in 2 days.

 

From searching other threads here (and there are not that many for Brooklyn-based oath ceremonies that go indepth), I'm seeing conflicting experiences with whether guests are actually welcome at the courthouse (no I'm not doing a name change, all of the Queens filers end up having the oath ceremony at the Brooklyn courthouse automatically.)...I've seen a couple of stories where guests were able to enter the courtroom to witness it in person, and other stories where guests were forced to huddle around a small television with no volume and watch the proceedings from the cafeteria.  Mind you, all the threads I've read were from years ago too.

 

Any one had their oath ceremony in Brooklyn's Camden Plaza building and can share some insight...specifically how guests are handled?  I plan on calling the courthouse tomorrow to ask but wanted to check on VJ first.  

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So I phoned the place where my oath ceremony will be held tomorrow morning... (Brooklyn, NY)

 

Was told by the clerk that guests must remain in the cafeteria during the entire ceremony and are not allowed to enter the room to witness the ceremony itself.  There is one small television in the cafeteria where they can watch the proceedings, but even the sound is muted on it.  He also said it depends on whether the TV is even switched to that channel to begin with, as it might just be showing local news broadcasts instead as normal.

 

That completely sucks.  You'd think they would recognize this day is a huge deal to people and they want to celebrate it with family when it happens...especially since our spouses are the ones who travel with us through this journey.  

 

I'm really sad about this actually...after years of struggle, sweat, stress, tears, what-not to get to this day----and it's treated like any other day of the week in someone's life? 

I was hoping, after reading others experiences in different cities/states, that mine tomorrow would be memorable somehow.   Feeling like it's going to be rather anti-climatic and will be just a "show up, stand up, line up" kind of proceeding.  Really hope I'm wrong.