Are husband's and wife's N-400 applications somehow connected?

[heeman 0]

I would appreciate any information on this matter:

We got our green cards ~6 years ago thru my employment and had interviews recently.

We had our interview appointments at the same day/hour but they took my wife around half an hour earlier than me. We both passed the tests. I got recommended at the end of the interview but my wife received N-652 with 'decision cannot be made'.  Nothing negative in her past or during her interview. She was told to wait for the oath letter.

Would it be possible that our applications are connected and my wife's IO could not make a decision before any decision made for me?

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33 minutes ago, heeman said:

I would appreciate any information on this matter:

We got our green cards ~6 years ago thru my employment and had interviews recently.

We had our interview appointments at the same day/hour but they took my wife around half an hour earlier than me. We both passed the tests. I got recommended at the end of the interview but my wife received N-652 with 'decision cannot be made'.  Nothing negative in her past or during her interview. She was told to wait for the oath letter.

Would it be possible that our applications are connected and my wife's IO could not make a decision before any decision made for me?

Unless one of you is a terrorist, government spy, national security threat etc. your application is not connected to her appllcation in any way.

 

Quite possible your wife's IO had to get their supervisor's approval if they were new, etc.  Happens a lot.

Main thing to keep in mind is if your wife's IO seemed to be recommending  her for approval (if even giving her any indication verbally)

If "she was told to wait for the oath letter" that sure sounds like an approval to me....IOs generally won't mention anything about oath ceremony if they are thinking of denying.

 

At the end of my  interview, both boxes were checked---all depends on what the IO wants to do.