N-400 February 2024 Filers

[Laure&Colin 373]

5 minutes ago, jm06 said:

@Laure&Colin I just left the building. Application recommended for approval and waiting for ceremony date. 
last interview of the day so the office was empty. 
Seemed like the officer was ready to go home so our interview lasted less than 5 min. 

 

Congrats!!

I added your update to the tracker above. 4 approvals already for February filers!

 

 

Edited April 10 by Laure&Colin

[Laure&Colin 373]

3 hours ago, CollegeDropOut said:

For naturalization through marriage, are spouses required to be at the interview?

 

Not necessarily required but recommended if your I-751 is still pending. Some people who had combo interviews received a message from their field office just days before requesting that the spouse come as well.

[OldUser 5,069]

3 hours ago, CollegeDropOut said:

For naturalization through marriage, are spouses required to be at the interview?

Highly recommended, even if I-751 is approved. Especially recommended if I-751 is still pending.

 

You're applying based on marriage and having spouse come with you proves marriage is going well. Also, IOs occasionally ask USC questions.

Edited April 10 by OldUser

[Tommy2000 23]

My wife did not go with me. I don't think it is necessary. We already interviewed together before I got my 10-year GC.

 

Also, the officer did not ask for any documentation other than the GC, DL, Passport, not even my wife's original birth certificate, but they probably had that information on file from the GC process. I did submit a lot of additional evidence like bank statements, mortgage, car docs, insurance, credit card statements, etc with the online application.

 

Will see how it goes.

[OldUser 5,069]

3 minutes ago, Tommy2000 said:

My wife did not go with me. I don't think it is necessary. We already interviewed together before I got my 10-year GC.

 

Also, the officer did not ask for any documentation other than the GC, DL, Passport, not even my wife's original birth certificate, but they probably had that information on file from the GC process. I did submit a lot of additional evidence like bank statements, mortgage, car docs, insurance, credit card statements, etc with the online application.

 

Will see how it goes.

Some people get hard time when spouse is not present. Looks like not in your case.

 

In general, just because you had approval before doesn't mean effortless approval in the next stage of immigration. The system is designed to re-examine any previous decisions when granting new immigration benefit.

[Crazy Cat 39,615]

If the interviewing officer has any questions about your marital union, the best remedy would be for the spouse to be there.  Why take a chance on delaying the process.  It just makes sense for the US spouse to attend.

 

Chapter 2 - Marriage and Marital Union for Naturalization | USCIS

"In general, all naturalization applicants filing on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen must continue to be the spouse of a U.S. citizen from the time of filing the naturalization application until the applicant takes the Oath of Allegiance."

Edited April 10 by Crazy Cat

[YellowDuneBuggy 32]

No reply yet. At this point, I really hope to have the interview on August 16, I would have the perfect excuse to be in San Antonio: the concert of Journey + Def Leppard. That would be awesome if they can be the same day

[Tommy2000 23]

3 hours ago, OldUser said:

Some people get hard time when spouse is not present. Looks like not in your case.

 

In general, just because you had approval before doesn't mean effortless approval in the next stage of immigration. The system is designed to re-examine any previous decisions when granting new immigration benefit.

I guess the difference is the conditions. I didn’t have any conditions on my GC, as we moved to the US after we were already married for over two years. Now the only question is that you are still married, so you can apply based on the 3-year rule.  Thats luckily not a topic for us since we both still love each other very much and we have always lived together at the same addresses and always moved together, filed taxes together, share everything from finances and bank accounts to beds 😉

 

Without conditions my wife was not even invited to the interview and would have to wait outside in the waiting room. If however, you have conditions, you still need to have these removed.

[OldUser 5,069]

20 minutes ago, Tommy2000 said:

I guess the difference is the conditions. I didn’t have any conditions on my GC, as we moved to the US after we were already married for over two years. Now the only question is that you are still married, so you can apply based on the 3-year rule.  Thats luckily not a topic for us since we both still love each other very much and we have always lived together at the same addresses and always moved together, filed taxes together, share everything from finances and bank accounts to beds 😉

 

Without conditions my wife was not even invited to the interview and would have to wait outside in the waiting room. If however, you have conditions, you still need to have these removed.

 

Having your spouse puts a moral pressure on IO to decide favourably, based on what I read on VJ and heard from lawyers:

 

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/marriage-based-citizenship-do-i-have-to-accompany--3147956.html

 

I read somewhere of rare cases when conditions were already removed but spouse was asked few questions as part of N-400 under 3 year rule. I will post links if I find it.

 

It's pretty much like with evidence. If you bring a lot with you, nobody asks for it. If you bring little or none - you get RFE.

 

Bringing spouse to 3 year rule N-400 is not mandatory, but helps to get approval easier even if spouse is just sitting in the waiting area.

Edited April 11 by OldUser

[CassJ 12]

Tampa filer here! 5 year rule but was an LPR was a while as well. My interview is scheduled May 30

[jm06 25]

Just received the oath ceremony schedule notification. 
Oath ceremony is scheduled for May 17th. Hopefully I can make it because my wife’s due date is on May 20th. 

[Laure&Colin 373]

@jm06 fingers crossed baby will take its time!

@CassJ when did you apply? I don't think I had you in the tracker yet.

 

 

 

User Name                 Date applied       Interview date         Oath date

Lanzoni                         01/29/24       -      04/04/24 ✅          Pending

Sahar1122                    01/30/24       -     05/15/24              

Laure&Colin                02/01/24       -      05/14/24

Youssuf                        02/01/24

Chelleyandaaron     02/01/24

Winbig                          02/01/24       -      05/08/24

USAUAinCZ                02/02/24

CollegeDropOut       02/07/24

Duggu                           02/07/24

MrsOli                           02/14/24

Tommy2000              02/14/24      -      04/10/24 ✅           Pending 

PhoenixNiro               02/15/24

YellowDuneBuggy   02/15/24

Elethiomel                  02/15/24        -     04/09/24 ✅         06/20/24 

Tunes                            02/16/24

alt blank                      02/16/24

Woodpecker07        02/17/24

ctrlplm                         02/17/24

Aur0ra                         02/18/24

Brazibride                  02/19/24

Minivatreni                02/20/24

Vamphog                   02/22/24

Valmabe                     02/24/24

Haydnator                 02/24/24

Jish&Abt                    02/24/24

Jm06                           02/25/24       -      04/10/24 ✅          05/17/24

RmSean                      02/25/24

Theredcomet           02/27/24

Seiya-pegasus        02/27/24

Mr W & I                      02/28/24        -     04/18/24

Endless desire         02/29/24

[Duggu 30]

Case Filed 02/07 . No update after that. Estimated time went from 6 months to 4 months to 5 months to 7 months. 

Does this mean someone working on the file ? 

 

Estimated time* until case decision: 

approx. 7 months

[Tommy2000 23]

Received oath ceremony notice for May 2nd. That was very fast.

[Laure&Colin 373]

3 hours ago, Duggu said:

Case Filed 02/07 . No update after that. Estimated time went from 6 months to 4 months to 5 months to 7 months. 

Does this mean someone working on the file ? 

 

I don't think so. I think it's only based on average processing times. Mine went from 5 back to 6 a couple weeks ago, I still got my interview date this week. I really wouldn't read too much into these estimates...

 

@Tommy2000 on track to be the 1st naturalized citizen in our February group 👀

 

User Name                 Date applied       Interview date         Oath date

Lanzoni                         01/29/24       -      04/04/24 ✅          Pending

Sahar1122                    01/30/24       -     05/15/24              

Laure&Colin                02/01/24       -      05/14/24

Youssuf                        02/01/24

Chelleyandaaron     02/01/24

Winbig                          02/01/24       -      05/08/24

USAUAinCZ                02/02/24

CollegeDropOut       02/07/24

Duggu                           02/07/24

MrsOli                           02/14/24

Tommy2000              02/14/24      -      04/10/24 ✅           05/02/24 

PhoenixNiro               02/15/24

YellowDuneBuggy   02/15/24

Elethiomel                  02/15/24        -     04/09/24 ✅          06/20/24 

Tunes                            02/16/24

alt blank                      02/16/24

Woodpecker07        02/17/24

ctrlplm                         02/17/24

Aur0ra                         02/18/24

Brazibride                  02/19/24

Minivatreni                02/20/24

Vamphog                   02/22/24

Valmabe                     02/24/24

Haydnator                 02/24/24

Jish&Abt                    02/24/24

Jm06                           02/25/24       -      04/10/24 ✅           05/17/24

RmSean                      02/25/24

Theredcomet           02/27/24

Seiya-pegasus        02/27/24

Mr W & I                      02/28/24        -     04/18/24

Endless desire         02/29/24