US Immigration from South Korea

Hello.

I am a K1 visa filer and I was wondering when I will be able to travel outside United States after I file AOS and AP together.

They say it varies by local field office. Some offices slow, others fast.

Does the USCIS main office assign you the field office when you file or can I choose where to file?

My USC fiance lives in Arlington, Virginia and USCIS website says the office for my zip code is Washington office in Fairfax, VA.

Is this going to be my office or can I still choose? I am willing to travel to Nolfolk, VA or Baltimore for shorter processing time.

So my wife was recently naturalized under her current name. However we're in the process of changing her name with our state court since we didn't do it during the ceremony.

We were waiting for the name change to apply before going for the passport.

Since the Certificate of Naturalization is required when applying for the passport, does this mean we also have to get the name change reflected on that (via N-565)? I see there's a hefty $555 fee as well... Or can we still submit the original cert along with the name change documents as supporting evidence?

Wondering if the easier option is we just get her passport now with her current name and then request a new passport later with the new name so we don't have to deal with changing the Certificate of Naturalization (along with the fee).

Once we have her passport, I assume that becomes her main form of US citizenship evidence anyways rather than the certificate.

Option 1: Complete name change -> get new Certificate -> apply for passport

Option 2: Apply for passport -> Complete name change -> apply for new passport

We applied for a expedited passport for a new born on 10/28.

passportstatus.state.gov been showing "In Process" ever since.

Reps on 877-487-2778 tells us to just wait. But for how long? It's already been over 6 weeks.

Is it time to write a letter to the senator?

Has anyone filed N-565 because they lost their Certificate of Naturalization recently?

We had couple question while filing N-565.

1. USCIS wants how/when/where we lost the Naturalization Certificate. For us, we don't know. What has other folks put down for this?

2. For uploading supporting documents, is the 2x2 Passport and copy of the original certificate all is needed? They have some verbiage about sending in original documents, but we are not sure which original documents they are referring to. Besides these two.

Thank you.

Hello.

just got two e-mail notifications about my case status. One says that my interview has been scheduled and the other says initial review . I assume that initial review is reviewing my background check because I didn t submit my finger prints with my N-400 application.

Has anyone had this notifications or knows what this means exactly?

Plus, I ve tried to log on to USCIS website and it seems having trouble to open the page.