Length of Time to get N400 Interview Scheduled now over 12 months

[gregoryagu 31]

Filed for N400 July 22 of last year.  Have heard nothing.  I have checked many times online, and they just say the case is on step 3: Scheduling Interview.

 

Office: Tampa, FL.  Per there estimator, the process should take 11.5 months.

 

Anyone else in a simliar situation?  Is the current Trump Administration actions making things taking even longer than before?

 

Just getting a little frustrated.  The only reason it's an issue is that we want to be out of the country longer than the allowed 6 months currently allowed by her Green Card.

 

Our plan is to go out of the country on July 15 and then just come back if and when it gets scheduled (but of course, not longer than 6 months.)

[OldUser 9,295]

Is there I-751 on file pending?

Or just N-400?

Tampa is a busy place

 

Update: I see I-751 got approved

 

Did you apply for naturalization under 3 or 5 year rule? If under 3 year rule, why?

 

Edited May 25 by OldUser

[gregoryagu 31]

We are married, so I think we would qualify under the 3 year rule.  But I wasn't really thinking about the N400 until we started to have plans to go abroad and my wife wanted to lock in her citizenship now while we have the residency requirements in place.

 

It would have been better to start sooner.  

[OldUser 9,295]

11 minutes ago, gregoryagu said:

We are married, so I think we would qualify under the 3 year rule.  But I wasn't really thinking about the N400 until we started to have plans to go abroad and my wife wanted to lock in her citizenship now while we have the residency requirements in place.

 

It would have been better to start sooner.  

Sorry I thought you already applied for N-400?

 

12 hours ago, gregoryagu said:

Filed for N400 July 22 of last year.  Have heard nothing. 

Did you apply under general provision or based on marriage to US citizen? 

 

Usually general provision (5 year rule) is faster than marriage (3 year rule)

[gregoryagu 31]

Sorry, I am not being very clear here. Yes, we have applied for the N400 as of July 2024.

 

I am not quite sure exactly what you mean by "under the 3 or 5 year rule"  If you are asking how long we waited, the date of her becoming a LPR was March 24, 2018.  So we waited over five years.  So I think that means we filed under the 5 year rule.

 

What I was trying to say is that we should have waited only 3 years from the date of her LPR, and then filed, as we would be finished by now.

[Rekyrts 137]

On 5/25/2025 at 11:56 AM, gregoryagu said:

Sorry, I am not being very clear here. Yes, we have applied for the N400 as of July 2024.

 

I am not quite sure exactly what you mean by "under the 3 or 5 year rule"  If you are asking how long we waited, the date of her becoming a LPR was March 24, 2018.  So we waited over five years.  So I think that means we filed under the 5 year rule.

 

What I was trying to say is that we should have waited only 3 years from the date of her LPR, and then filed, as we would be finished by now.

But did you file utilizing general provision (based on five years of residency) or marriage provision (3 years of residency and 3 years of marriage to USC)? Sounds like she qualified for both.