gt9550a

We got the letter yesterday and my husband's oath ceremony is scheduled for 8/29!!! Almost there!!!

Well, we just got a fresh update:

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Your Case Status: Oath Ceremony

On August 12, 2014, we scheduled you for your oath ceremony and sent a notice providing the date, time, and location

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Now, just waiting to receive that letter! It must be soon though, so we are feeling good!!

We got the letter on 8/14! We are scheduled for an oath ceremony on 8/29, we're almost there!

Another small step closer to being finished! We got this via email today:

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Your Case Status: Oath Ceremony
On August 12, 2014, we scheduled you for your oath ceremony and sent a notice providing the date, time, and location

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Almost done!!!

Anyone other Atlantans recently been placed in the oath scheduling "que"? We got a letter last Monday 8/4 that my husband is in the queue for oath scheduling. We are about to go insane for this process to be over. We hope he might get into a ceremony during my parents visit around Labor Day (in 3 weeks).

Please post your recent experience with oaths in this office. We aren't doing any name change or anything like that. It's now been over 13 months since we applied!

Sarah

Well, we just got a fresh update:

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Your Case Status: Oath Ceremony

On August 12, 2014, we scheduled you for your oath ceremony and sent a notice providing the date, time, and location

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Now, just waiting to receive that letter! It must be soon though, so we are feeling good!!

Anyone other Atlantans recently been placed in the oath scheduling "que"? We got a letter last Monday 8/4 that my husband is in the queue for oath scheduling. We are about to go insane for this process to be over. We hope he might get into a ceremony during my parents visit around Labor Day (in 3 weeks).

Please post your recent experience with oaths in this office. We aren't doing any name change or anything like that. It's now been over 13 months since we applied!

Sarah

Wow! 13 months! Atlanta seems to consistently beat NYC, Boston, and some of the other super-slow offices for the title of slowest in the country!

May I ask if you guys had any special issues that caused a delay or was it just Atlanta being Atlanta?

At the interview,we were told that the background check from the FBI was not back yet. That was the week of Thanksgiving last year. We called this spring and received an update and letter that our case was still in process. They never said anything specific. My husband did have a now 7 year old DUI arrest (which was reduced to reckless driving/probation). But that happened before the green card and was not a problem or delay at the time of the green card. Other items we wondered about were: he had a name change as a child when his stepfather adopted him around age 10; he had a divorce and then a remarriage to me after the green card... he has missing fingers from a birth defect which may have caused special review of his biometrics.... he travels extensively for work including many international trips... but we really don't know. He had a very normal and brief interview and they did not request any more information from us at the interview other than a list of international trips he had taken between the application (July 2013) and interview (November 2013).

It does seem like other people with unusual items in their history may have also taken longer. At any rate we are delighted. We were very close to reaching out to our Representative. The letter states that he can expect an oath ceremony within 45 days.

Wow, we JUST today got the emailed case update that we are in line for an oath ceremony! Thank goodness! After 13 months! For at least six months my husband has been making little comments like "Well, it's too bad they don't want me," etc. I bought a ton of American themed decorations after July 4th - I knew it couldn't be much longer!

Hi,

Could someone help update –

Gt9550a

Interview notice/letter received: 10/18/13

Interview date: 11/26/13

Interview today was a bit disappointing. We arrived 20 minutes early for the 9:00 appointment at the Atlanta office. We had no wait at security. We did have over a 90 minutes wait in the holding area, which was surprising to us since the appointment was so early. Of course, it’s a holiday week. He was not called back until 10:30 am. He was gone for the interview about 40 minutes. Everything went fine with the questions. He was asked: What is freedom of religion? What ocean is on the east coast? Name one state that borders Canada. How many senators are there? What year was the constitution written? What is the age for selective service? He then read out loud, “What are the colors of the flag of the USA? He then wrote “The flag is red, white and blue.” The officer asked him several questions to confirm the information from the application. My husband said that he had travelled out of the country since his application. The officer said the application could not be approved today because the security clearance was not back yet. He also gave him a form to fill out and mail in to update his application with his trips taken in the past couple of months, even though my husband offered to update the form immediately as he had his passport with the dates in it. He also said that there was no same day oath ceremony today. We were really disappointed that he wasn’t fully approved and wouldn’t be sworn in today. I don’t understand why he would be scheduled before all the information was back. However he was told that there would not be any more interviews, that once the security clearance was back and the updated list of travels was back, he would just receive a letter with his oath date and time.

For anyone that has an arrest record, it might be helpful to you to know that a six year old DUI (1 year prior to green card) arrest (not conviction) did not cause any issues for the officer of either the green card or the citizenship. We had answered the question honestly and provided the citations, the court documents showing the outcome – which was reduction in charge to reckless driving and probation, and a letter showing the probation had been completed.

Although we had received a yellow letter requesting us to bring some of the same documents already submitted, the officer did not look at any of these documents. He only checked my husband’s ID and for the rest of the interview referred to the packet we had sent in our initial application.

We also received an email about an hour after we left confirming that additional documentation was required and should be submitted per the letter we received, etc.

Anyway, hope it’s all final early next year. We’re not holding out hope for finishing in December, although we were told it should all be done within 30 days as long as we submitted the travel updates promptly.

Hi, we got the email and are now "In Line" - it was sent on July 26!! Could someone please update for me? Thanks!!!

Biometrics finished today! We were able to walk in. However it was very busy and we were there just over 3 hours. Everyone was courteous and let us know up front it would be a long wait as they would take the appointments first. It was no problem at all to walk in early due to the work trip on the appointment date. They offered that we could come back in an hour but with a 30 minute drive, we elected to stay and wait.

Thanks!

Got biometrics in the mail yesterday, unfortunately going to be out of town for work on the due date. Will try to walk in next week. Wish us luck.

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GT9550A - got the NOA in the mail today, 7/13/13!

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