Naturalization Ceremony - San Diego - Cabrillo National Monument

[seganku 54]

My wife has her Naturalization Oath Ceremony scheduled in a few weeks.  My parents and sister would love to attend (as well as myself, son, and daughter).  I've talked to USCIS twice, trying to find out whether guests will be permitted, and received two different answers.  The USCIS website says that only the candidate will be permitted the ceremony, but I suspect this differs by venue.

Does anyone know whether ceremonies at Cabrillo National Monument are typically conducted indoors, or outside?

Can family come?

Is there a way to directly contact the San Diego field office, to ask them?

 

Thank you so much for all the years of help, here on this forum!

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

Found this article from 2020.

 

Might not answer your question, but it is interesting: 

 

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/gallery/drive-thru-naturalization-ceremony

[Crazy Cat 41,981]

13 minutes ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

Found this article from 2020.

 

Might not answer your question, but it is interesting: 

 

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/gallery/drive-thru-naturalization-ceremony

Drive-Thru????  That's wild!!!!!!

(In my wife's ceremony, there were 1,000 new citizens naturalized).

Edited March 26, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

11 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

Drive-Thru????  That's wild!!!!!!

(In my wife's ceremony, there were 1,000 new citizens naturalized).

Crazy, right?

 

Who knows how will they conduct OP's wife ceremony. 

Probably outdoors -and maybe even drive thru- as that specific place has just a tiny auditorium. 

Edited March 26, 2023 by Allaboutwaiting

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

28 minutes ago, seganku said:

Does anyone know whether ceremonies at Cabrillo National Monument are typically conducted indoors, or outside?

Can family come?

Is there a way to directly contact the San Diego field office, to ask them?

 

Thank you so much for all the years of help, here on this forum!

I think you can all attend.

 

Maybe the easiest way to know exactly how the ceremony will be is contacting the park.

[seganku 54]

10 minutes ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

Maybe the easiest way to know exactly how the ceremony will be is contacting the park.

I have left a couple messages on their voicemail.  The outgoing message states that a park ranger will call back within 24 hours, but I haven't received any replies yet.

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

2 minutes ago, seganku said:

I have left a couple messages on their voicemail.  The outgoing message states that a park ranger will call back within 24 hours, but I haven't received any replies yet.

You can also try leaving a message on their FB page asking about oath ceremonies. 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,093]

On 3/26/2023 at 11:30 AM, seganku said:

Does anyone know whether ceremonies at Cabrillo National Monument are typically conducted indoors, or outside?

I'm not sure where they could hold a ceremony indoors there, FWIW (I've been there; it's quite pretty, but I don't think there's an indoor space anywhere big enough for more than a handful of people).

 

But my wife had a same-day oath ceremony at the San Diego USCIS office downtown last month and I wasn't allowed in for that, so I wouldn't know for sure.

[seganku 54]

On 3/26/2023 at 12:15 PM, Allaboutwaiting said:

You can also try leaving a message on their FB page asking about oath ceremonies.

Got a reply on Facebook.  It is usually outside, but moves indoors for rain ... which we have had an unusual mount of this year.

 

Thanks!

[seganku 54]

2 hours ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

I'm not sure where they could hold a ceremony indoors there

They do have a very small auditorium, which might hold 60-70 people.  I think it is in the same building as the museum.

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

1 minute ago, seganku said:

They do have a very small auditorium, which might hold 60-70 people.  I think it is in the same building as the museum.

Exactly what I was typing, you beat me to it!

Hopefully there's no rain on the day of your oath ceremony. 

 

[seganku 54]

As a much belated follow-up, the ceremony was still a drive up ceremony.  There were two long lines of cars, and they'd take five cars from each line, have the people step out and walk up to a flag and do their oath there in the road.  Take some pictures, back into cars, and off we go.  Family parked nearby and walked over for the brief ceremony.

[Crazy Cat 41,981]

1 minute ago, seganku said:

As a much belated follow-up, the ceremony was still a drive up ceremony.  There were two long lines of cars, and they'd take five cars from each line, have the people step out and walk up to a flag and do their oath there in the road.  Take some pictures, back into cars, and off we go.  Family parked nearby and walked over for the brief ceremony.

Thanks for the update.  I was curious about those drive-in oath ceremonies.... and congratulations!!!  

[Icamarn 91]

On 8/12/2023 at 7:05 PM, seganku said:

As a much belated follow-up, the ceremony was still a drive up ceremony.  There were two long lines of cars, and they'd take five cars from each line, have the people step out and walk up to a flag and do their oath there in the road.  Take some pictures, back into cars, and off we go.  Family parked nearby and walked over for the brief ceremony.

How long after the interview did you guys have the oath ceremony? 
thank you! 

[seganku 54]

14 hours ago, Icamarn said:

How long after the interview did you guys have the oath ceremony? 
thank you! 

It was about 40 days.