N-400 January 2024 filers

[samdog 56]

17 minutes ago, jackiegringa said:

Congrats!

 

I am still waiting on online status change but I have a feeling I won't get the oath until much later...

Fingers crossed for you!

[Rearviewmirror 397]

Re-posting from the I-751 thread. Back from my I-751/N400 interview at the Fairfax office. In a surprising turn of events it was a virtual interview. The officer told me it would be a combo interview, but they never called my spouse in. I had uploaded lots of evidence documents with my N400 (combining finances, taxes, leases etc.) and that seemed to have sped it up.

 

Interview lasted 10 minutes - civics questions first (how many senators, how long do they serve, what rights are protected in the first amendment, who is the speaker of the house, two US holidays, promise you make when becoming a citizen), confirmed address, updated a couple of errors I made on the N400 form, and asked if we had filed taxes. Done and conditionally approved pending I-751 approval - said it would take 2-3 days for the I-751 to get transferred, 2-3 weeks for approval, oath scheduling could be as fast as a couple of weeks. I let them know i was travelling all of May and they said they would shoot for June.

[Rearviewmirror 397]

And my I-751 just changed to case was transferred.

[happydoctor 36]

On 4/4/2024 at 5:19 PM, minivatreni said:

I’m doing a name change also and I hope my oath gets scheduled quickly. Chicago IL here 

 Hi ! Do you know if they have same day oath ceremony by chance in Chicago ? 

[happydoctor 36]

Congratulations to all who recently passed the test !
did they asked you to explain “what is means “from the N400 form questions ? For example “ Can you explain what is non-combats services ?”, “ What does an offence mean ? “

 

someone I know wasn’t able to answer these types of questions during the interview.
 

 

[Rearviewmirror 397]

On 4/12/2024 at 9:20 PM, happydoctor said:

Congratulations to all who recently passed the test !
did they asked you to explain “what is means “from the N400 form questions ? For example “ Can you explain what is non-combats services ?”, “ What does an offence mean ? “

Nope - I just got asked 2-3 of the questions verbally.

[minivatreni 193]

On 4/12/2024 at 8:11 PM, happydoctor said:

 Hi ! Do you know if they have same day oath ceremony by chance in Chicago ? 

They do not!

[happydoctor 36]

On 4/14/2024 at 6:38 AM, Rearviewmirror said:

Nope - I just got asked 2-3 of the questions verbally.

Do you mean they asked “ yes / no “ questions, but didn’t ask what the certain words mean ?

[minivatreni 193]

7 minutes ago, happydoctor said:

Do you mean they asked “ yes / no “ questions, but didn’t ask what the certain words mean ?

Why would the officer ask you to explain the application itself to him? No one is going to ask you the definition of the questions on the N-400. They will go over your application with you and confirm that you haven't committed crimes, been imprisoned, broken the law, etc. You will need to answer either yes/no or in some cases provide a brief explanation where applicable. 

 

 

[Stein 285]

3 hours ago, minivatreni said:

Why would the officer ask you to explain the application itself to him? No one is going to ask you the definition of the questions on the N-400. They will go over your application with you and confirm that you haven't committed crimes, been imprisoned, broken the law, etc. You will need to answer either yes/no or in some cases provide a brief explanation where applicable. 

 

 

Actually, my wife has been studying a list of "definition" words.  I don't know where she found it but it must have been on some Vietnamese user group.  There are 100 words or phrases with definitions.  Words like "parole" "conviction" "pardon", etc.  The two questions the person above was asked are also two of the words or phrases that my wife is studying.  This is in addition to the 100 civics questions.

 

I haven't heard of this before she started studying them and haven't read anyone else's interview summary that asked these questions but she was adamant that some interviews include these questions.  The post above is the first confirmation that I've heard of it.

Edited April 15, 2024 by Stein

[minivatreni 193]

2 minutes ago, Stein said:

Actually, my wife has been studying a list of "definition" words.  I don't know where she found it but it must have been on some Vietnamese user group.  There are 100 words or phrases with definitions.  Words like "parole" "conviction" "pardon", etc.  The two questions the person above was asked are also two of the words or phrases that my wife is studying.  This is in addition to the 100 civics questions.

No one will test you on the definition of these words, but it's important you know what they mean so that you can answer the questions truthfully!

[Stein 285]

1 minute ago, minivatreni said:

No one will test you on the definition of these words, but it's important you know what they mean so that you can answer the questions truthfully!

OK.  I'm going to just keep quiet and let her keep studying them.  It can't hurt!

[happydoctor 36]

6 hours ago, minivatreni said:

Why would the officer ask you to explain the application itself to him? No one is going to ask you the definition of the questions on the N-400. They will go over your application with you and confirm that you haven't committed crimes, been imprisoned, broken the law, etc. You will need to answer either yes/no or in some cases provide a brief explanation where applicable. 

 

 

I hope they will not ask  🙂 However , just recently I heard the story where they did ask older lady with very bad English what this means, and she didn’t know. She didn’t pass the test . Couple months after she tried again after learning  the meaning of these words and she passed. I guess it’s depends. Maybe they ask if a person doesn’t  speaks English good enough.

[minivatreni 193]

8 minutes ago, happydoctor said:

I hope they will not ask  🙂 However , just recently I heard the story where they did ask older lady with very bad English what this means, and she didn’t know. She didn’t pass the test . Couple months after she tried again after learning  the meaning of these words and she passed. I guess it’s depends. Maybe they ask if a person doesn’t  speaks English good enough.

Yeah I suppose the issue becomes if the IO asks you a question and you look at him/her like you don’t know what he or she is saying. Then they will ask you if you understand the questions. 

[Jacobo 122]

1 minute ago, OldUser said:

My advice is to keep original case receipts and approval letters in addition to what you're keeping.

 

In addition, it wouldn't hurt to scan everything you have and store in the cloud AND USB stick AND computer.

 

You never know when you may be asked again to reprove everything. The chance of it happening is low, but it would be hard if you destroy all evidence.

 

It's a lot of work to scan, but the cost of storing it in the cloud is free or close to 0.

Just out of curiosity, why is it important to bring original case receipts?