US Immigration from Germany

I leaned heavily on the support of this community when it took such a long time for our cases to get approved. I just want to let everyone know my two kids finally got their certificate. The certificate dates the day of citizenship to the day they activated their IR2 s.

I filed their N-600 package about a week after we activated their green cards and the average processing time back then was somewhere between 10-12 months.

Our case got stuck because of our residence being outside the US ( initially being under military orders but then retired). This was confirmed by our officer stating that all looks good but there were questions regarding our residence overseas. While State department issued their US passports within 4 weeks, our field office kept pushing our case back. We were ready to be scheduled for an interview for five months.

Interesting to note, the suggested new N-600 forms include the option to add an international address into the documents. The wording in their current instructions are somewhat misleading. The legal status on the date someone receives their citizenship and not the date of filing the N-600 application is relevant.

Based on the forums advice and in order to get us unstuck, we reached out to our Congressman and when we didn t hear back for more than a month, I hired an attorney to file a writ-of-mandamus. The WoM finally got the case moving and an interview date set. (Before the final interview notice, we received status updates claiming we had asked for a rescheduled interview when we didn t - it was nerve wracking).

Date of filing: 01/2022

Out of processing times inquiry: 05/2023

Cases looked at by USCIS: 08/2023-09/2023

Ready to be scheduled for an interview and interview notices mailed: 09/2023 and 10/02/2023 but never received nor scheduled

WoM: 02/2024

Interview scheduled: 03/2024

Interview and oath: 04/2024

The interview consisted of taking a copy of their US passports, the kids signature and a very friendly conversation. We had the first 08:00 am appointment on Monday morning. We showed up at 07:15 with traffic being a lot lighter than expected. Line started building up at 07:30 with about 15 people behind us and we were allowed to enter the building at 07:40-07:45.

This surely qualifies as a stupid question but here it goes: My teenagers and I have an appointment at 08:00 am at our local USCIS field office. They open up at 08:00 am and if I recall, it will take time for us to go through security etc.

Meaning, if we arrive at 07:30 am as advertised, the doors may still be closed. There is no way for us to be in time for our appointment if they open at 08:00 am. Will it be held against us?

Also, I am thinking we should be there about an hour prior to the appointment but waiting outside is not a walk in the park in that neighborhood. What time should one generally get there to be in the building as fast as possible? (Obviously, without camping outside but more in terms of a reasonable arrival time)

my wife had to abondon permanenet residence from USA due to illness of sister in germany so we turned in green card with form I407 and received from uscis confirmation. we want to return APRIL-MAY OF 2025 will we have to start from front and will we have to start with immigrant visa thru frankfurt and will we have problems stateside entry. I am reitired Army and my wife has lived in USA over 25 years and we have kids, grandkids, great grandkids and family in Pennsylvania. What steps should i take?

Hello,

if we can rely on TMVN, we would - assuming the visa is approved - be through with everything around August/September.

My partner will then come to me from the USA. We then want to fly back together and I want to immigrate.

Despite research, we couldn't figure out how to do this.

Does every airport have a POE for immigration and do they also provide this in Canada for the US? We would come from Germany.

And my second question is, if my fianc books a Flight US-Germany-US, can I book a one way ticket for the same flight? We want to be on the same plane of course :-).

Hi all,

just filling out the new N-400 version in anticipation of filing for citizenship next month. I am planning on filing online but I am anxious to get this started so here we are. I have noticed that there seems to be some weird dependency between Part 5. 4d and Part 10. 1 when filling out the form in Acrobat Reader. It seems that both answers can only be the same, either both yes or both no. This might just be the case for me, but I thought I'd mention it. So, if you are filing by mail, your spouse lives at the same address as you, AND you make more than 400% of the federal poverty guidelines, or vice versa, triple check your answers!