My N400 Interview Experience

[Mira1983 7]

This has been the fasted part of my journey.  I submitted my N400 form online on June 2nd and received my NOA later that same week. I then received my interview notice in July scheduled for August 16th so likely I had about 3 weeks to prepare for the Questions and upon my arrival for the interview at the Baltimore office I went through security and checked in and waited for about 20 minutes to be called.  The Officer was pleasant apologized for keeping me waiting.  He asked to see my Green Card and he explained the process. 

1 - He asked me who George Washington was ( I answered, he was the first president) 

2 - he asked me to write down on a piece of paper George Washington was the first president of United States

 

Then he explained that he will be leaving the room to conduct the rest of the interview on virtual as we communicate through the tablet. 

 

- For the Civic question: 

  1 Name the US War between the North and the South 

  2 -What did Martin Luther King Jr Do 

  3 - What did Susan B Anthony do?

  4 - When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms 

  5 - What is freedom of religion?

  6 - Why does the flag have 50 stars

 

Then he said I passed and he asked some questions on my application form: 

- Do you have a job and I said yes and he asked me where I worked and I told him and he agreed and says oh yes I see it here 

- DO you have children - I said yes two a boy and a girl

- Do you pay taxes - Yes 

 

He proceed to asks like 4-5 more of the yes or no questions.  

 

Then he said congratulations you have passed and your oath ceremony is scheduled at 3:30 today.  

So he came back to the room gave me the paperwork and I went out of the building and came  back 15 minutes earlier and was let in.  There were about 20-25 people for the ceremony and once done was  done by 4 and very smoothly, I left out of there with my naturalization certificate.

 

BTW - Please do bring with all the green cards you ever had so they can take it off you.  I have to post my conditional one as I did not have it with me only current 10 years one. 

 

This by far has been the easiest part of the process.

 

 

 

[millefleur 5,047]

**Moved from What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration to US Citizenship General Discussion**

[FK1 8]

10 minutes ago, millefleur said:

**Moved from What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration to US Citizenship General Discussion**

Just had my combo interview today and everything went smooth. The officer said i should expect to receive my letter for oath ceremony in 2-4 weeks time. My online status for both of my cases has not changed though. Does anybody know how long it usually takes to update after interview? Is there anything to worry about if it doesn’t?

[Junior818 65]

17 hours ago, Mira1983 said:

This has been the fasted part of my journey.  I submitted my N400 form online on June 2nd and received my NOA later that same week. I then received my interview notice in July scheduled for August 16th so likely I had about 3 weeks to prepare for the Questions and upon my arrival for the interview at the Baltimore office I went through security and checked in and waited for about 20 minutes to be called.  The Officer was pleasant apologized for keeping me waiting.  He asked to see my Green Card and he explained the process. 

1 - He asked me who George Washington was ( I answered, he was the first president) 

2 - he asked me to write down on a piece of paper George Washington was the first president of United States

 

Then he explained that he will be leaving the room to conduct the rest of the interview on virtual as we communicate through the tablet. 

 

- For the Civic question: 

  1 Name the US War between the North and the South 

  2 -What did Martin Luther King Jr Do 

  3 - What did Susan B Anthony do?

  4 - When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms 

  5 - What is freedom of religion?

  6 - Why does the flag have 50 stars

 

Then he said I passed and he asked some questions on my application form: 

- Do you have a job and I said yes and he asked me where I worked and I told him and he agreed and says oh yes I see it here 

- DO you have children - I said yes two a boy and a girl

- Do you pay taxes - Yes 

 

He proceed to asks like 4-5 more of the yes or no questions.  

 

Then he said congratulations you have passed and your oath ceremony is scheduled at 3:30 today.  

So he came back to the room gave me the paperwork and I went out of the building and came  back 15 minutes earlier and was let in.  There were about 20-25 people for the ceremony and once done was  done by 4 and very smoothly, I left out of there with my naturalization certificate.

 

BTW - Please do bring with all the green cards you ever had so they can take it off you.  I have to post my conditional one as I did not have it with me only current 10 years one. 

 

This by far has been the easiest part of the process.

 

 

 

Congratulations 

[AlexGR 12]

Mine went similar to yours, other than the fact that when I checked in, the lady at the counter gave me the wrong room number for the interview so after waiting in the wrong room for about 20' I hear my first name and I follow the Officer to her desk and after she asks me to take an oath, she asked asked some history/civic questions and checked my green card and passport, she realizes that I am in the wrong room and not only that, she also claimed that she didn't actually ask for my first name, supposedly she called somebody else's name. Thankfully she was kind enough and pointed out the correct room number so I went there and I was panicked cause I didn't know if they had already called my name and assumed that I wasn't there at all for the interview. Thankfully, after about 15' I heard my name and I went through the interview with a seemingly very young guy, maybe 25 years old. He said I passed the civics test and I would receive a letter in a few weeks with the oath ceremony date. 

 

I was asked same questions as yours.

- Do you have a job and I said yes and he asked me where I worked and I told him and he agreed and says oh yes I see it here 

- DO you have children - I said yes a babygirl

- Do you pay taxes - Yes 

 

He proceed to asks like 4-5 more of the yes or no questions.  

 

My biggest stress was that I had some traffic tickets which I had him disclose them in the form originally and when I mentioned them to the Officer he said that it's fine as long as they're not DUI involved or caused an accident, he was very cool about it.