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Thanks Hedi!

I know there is oath ceremony in Boston on 9/27 and I see some people received the letters last week and two weeks ago, but their interviews were back in June and July.
We are currently in queue for oath scheduling and office at Info Pass told me that they are scheduling now and trying to "get to around 2000 people".
Does anyone know how close to the date they can send letters? I mean, they know postal service takes time and perhaps not everyone can change their work schedule in such a short notice, in case they get their letter 2-3 days before. I will, of course , I am just curious if they have some kind of a deadline where it's too close for them to send out letters.

Thanks.

Thank you. I learned something new

If you have children it gets involved also. When you submit FAFSA for college age children, they use social security info to determine citizenship.

FAFSA kicked back my daughters documentation saying that she was not a citizen. She presented her US passport to the school, and the school accepted it the first year. Second year same thing, and this time the college was worried some underhanded stuff was going on. We had to take her US Passport to the Social Security office and prove she was a citizen. Once we did that, they corrected some data in their system, and no issues since.

But with FAFSA you need to be either a citizen or eligible permanent resident, so even if she wasn't a citizen she was a permanent resident, was she not?

I asked this in several forums, no one seems to know (or reluctant to respond ).

Does anyone have experience with early walk-in to Boston ASC for N-400?

Thanks.

I asked that same question of the SSA, and I was told it had to do with survivor benefits. However, when I checked the website, I only found that non-citizens cannot receive benefits overseas, while a citizen can.

OK, so it is pretty much to our benefit, if we want to retire outside the U.S., but it is not mandatory.

Thanks.

Can someone please explain to me why do you even need to report to SS after becoming a citizen? We did that after getting our green cards and we received new cards with no restrictions on it, looks like a normal SSN card.

Is there a difference in status (in Social Security) between permanent resident and a citizen? AFAIK there is no difference and you can live here all your lives as P.R., and you are still eligible for benefits (is you are eligible to begin with, meaning if you paid into it).