N-400 -- February 2026 Filers

[Ballerina 100]

Applied: 02/23

Biometrics Notice: 02/27

[audaud 66]

Applied Feb 20th 2026

Checked online, Biometrics notice in account today (Date showing Feb 28th 2026)

[Florida Bear 13]

Biometrics notification showed up on the USCIS site as of 2/28 for a March 20th appt.

[Unicornuno9 10]

On 2/9/2026 at 7:46 PM, Unicornuno9 said:

I submitted my N-400 online today (Feb 9) under the 5-year rule, filing approximately 90 days before my 5-year anniversary and received my Receipt Notice immediately. My case is with the Washington, DC field office. Fingers crossed it doesn’t take too long—this is the final step toward citizenship 🤞

I just finished my biometric appointment, and it was quite quick. Now, the status has changed to "Case Is Still Being Processed By USCIS," and the indefinite wait time has begun.

[Ballerina 100]

9 hours ago, Florida Bear said:

Biometrics notification showed up on the USCIS site as of 2/28 for a March 20th appt.

you can probably make it sooner if you want. Moved mine from March 18 to Mar 4

[TBoneTX 49,426]

It's nice to read of everyone's progress.  Every little step is a gain.

[Ballerina 100]

On 2/27/2026 at 8:22 PM, Ballerina said:

Applied: 02/23

Biometrics Notice: 02/27

Biometrics done: 03/04 

 

Now says case is still being processed. 

[A&J22 51]

On 2/26/2026 at 9:00 AM, A&J22 said:

I found it in my USCIS account under Documents tab, I think it will get mailed as well.

     We moved up the biometrics to 3/5/26. Now the wait game for the interview.

[ArethisPT 49]

Most tedious part, but meanwhile, guys, take this time to study, now they ask 20 civics questions and you have to get 12 right to pass...

[Andes 4]

Hello everyone!

Hopefully I'm going to be joining the March filers in a few days, but I don't know if I'm missing something in my evidence packet.

I'm applying based on the 3-year rule. I got my GC almost 2 years after sending the form so I didn't have to remove conditions.

The list of copies I have as proof are: marriage certificate, husband's passport, photos together in the last 3-5 years, joint bank account, mortgage, tax returns, GC, and my driver's license.

Now, for the "legal presence", should I try to find pay-stubs from the jobs I had during this time? And, I did 2 trips to my home country to visit my family, each of these trips was 2 weeks long. I have just 1 stamp in my passport from when I came back from the first trip, Should I add that too? What other evidence should I add for legal presence?

[OldUser 11,266]

2 hours ago, Andes said:

 

Now, for the "legal presence", should I try to find pay-stubs from the jobs I had during this time? And, I did 2 trips to my home country to visit my family, each of these trips was 2 weeks long. I have just 1 stamp in my passport from when I came back from the first trip, Should I add that too? What other evidence should I add for legal presence?

 

I am not aware of what "legal presence" is. There are two things: continuous residence and physical presence.

 

You do not need anything to prove you were here all this time if you have mortgage statements, bank statements etc and only travelled for few weeks

 

Edited Saturday at 06:15 PM by OldUser

[ArethisPT 49]

12 hours ago, Andes said:

Hello everyone!

Hopefully I'm going to be joining the March filers in a few days, but I don't know if I'm missing something in my evidence packet.

I'm applying based on the 3-year rule. I got my GC almost 2 years after sending the form so I didn't have to remove conditions.

The list of copies I have as proof are: marriage certificate, husband's passport, photos together in the last 3-5 years, joint bank account, mortgage, tax returns, GC, and my driver's license.

Now, for the "legal presence", should I try to find pay-stubs from the jobs I had during this time? And, I did 2 trips to my home country to visit my family, each of these trips was 2 weeks long. I have just 1 stamp in my passport from when I came back from the first trip, Should I add that too? What other evidence should I add for legal presence?

So, the copies that you have as proof for the naturalization, some of them are not necessary, like the husband's passport.

You don't need any pay stubs from any previous or current jobs, just the tax transcripts, not tax returns, the tax transcripts.

Like Old User said, I don't understand what "legal presence" is, what do you mean by that?

Since you will be joining the March filers in a few days, I believe you have not started filling out the forms online. When you start you will see that it will be pretty straight forward and you will not even upload that much stuff.

For example, the only time I ever uploaded pictures of me and my wife was the first application on the I-130, after that, never uploaded a single picture. I'll still take them to the interview in case they ask for them, but there's no need to over do it, do send too much information, just what they need.