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I also say your attorney is trying to make money out of you.  Do the N-400 on line.  It is one of the easier forms, the online system makes sure you have completed all required sections, and tells you what documents are required.  I had no RFE.

I also say your attorney is trying to make money out of you.  Do the N-400 on line.  It is one of the easier forms, the online system makes sure you have completed all required sections, and tells you what documents are required.  I had no RFE.

Don't worry about the estimated time.  The numbers close to the end of the journey have become crazy due to the covid shutdowns.  My estimate was about 12 months when I had my interview and same day oath.  Even after the oath I was getting "action was taken on your case" emails and a long estimated time.

Yes, I went through that.  I had the email overnight, and the website only showed the update in the afternoon.

Well I am now a US citizen!  Passed the interview, same day oath.  All done.
For those still to go through San Bernardino it was all quite logical.  Everyone was professional and courteous.  I entered the building about 10 minutes before my appointment time.  My name was called 25 minutes after the appointment time.  The interview took about 30 minutes.  They were doing an oath ceremony every half an hour, and I just missed one (They started one while my paperwork/certificate was being processed), so I had to wait just over a half hour for the ceremony.  The ceremony itself was only a few minutes.  The officer read the names off the certificates, we stood up, repeated the oath and received our certificates.  I left the building about 1 hour, 45 minutes after entering.

Well I am now a US citizen!  Passed the interview, same day oath.  All done.
For those still to go through San Bernardino it was all quite logical.  Everyone was professional and courteous.  I entered the building about 10 minutes before my appointment time.  My name was called 25 minutes after the appointment time.  The interview took about 30 minutes.  They were doing an oath ceremony every half an hour, and I just missed one (They started one while my paperwork/certificate was being processed), so I had to wait just over a half hour for the ceremony.  The ceremony itself was only a few minutes.  The officer read the names off the certificates, we stood up, repeated the oath and received our certificates.  I left the building about 1 hour, 45 minutes after entering.

Well I am now a citizen.  Interview passed, oath 35 minutes later.  All done.  A huge thank you to all my fellow Visa Journey travelers, your help, support, advice and kind words have been a highlight of this whole process.  Thank you all so much, it would have been so much harder without all of you.  Time to start checking out the post oath forum to decide which order to do things in.  I will still be around for a while in case I can be of help to others.  May those still on their journey have a conclusion soon!

Well I am now a citizen.  Interview passed, oath 35 minutes later.  All done.  A huge thank you to all my fellow Visa Journey travelers, your help, support, advice and kind words have been a highlight of this whole process.  Thank you all so much, it would have been so much harder without all of you.  Time to start checking out the post oath forum to decide which order to do things in.  I will still be around for a while in case I can be of help to others.  May those still on their journey have a conclusion soon!

Well I am now a US citizen!  Passed the interview, same day oath.  All done.
For those still to go through San Bernardino it was all quite logical.  Everyone was professional and courteous.  I entered the building about 10 minutes before my appointment time.  My name was called 25 minutes after the appointment time.  The interview took about 30 minutes.  They were doing an oath ceremony every half an hour, and I just missed one (They started one while my paperwork/certificate was being processed), so I had to wait just over a half hour for the ceremony.  The ceremony itself was only a few minutes.  The officer read the names off the certificates, we stood up, repeated the oath and received our certificates.  I left the building about 1 hour, 45 minutes after entering.

Most of the questions need just one of the answers.  If they want more than one they specify in the question how many they want.

Well I am now a citizen.  Interview passed, oath 35 minutes later.  All done.  A huge thank you to all my fellow Visa Journey travelers, your help, support, advice and kind words have been a highlight of this whole process.  Thank you all so much, it would have been so much harder without all of you.  Time to start checking out the post oath forum to decide which order to do things in.  I will still be around for a while in case I can be of help to others.  May those still on their journey have a conclusion soon!

Congratulations.  My interview is tomorrow.  I hope I get same day oath as well.

The PDF of the interview letter has appeared on the website.  April 7th.
 
Does anyone know how the California 10 day quarantine for out of state travel affect things?  I shall have to travel in late March but will be back on the last weekend of March so will be just out of quarantine before the interview.  They don't mention anything about out of state travel, just out of USA travel in the letter.

Just saw a March 2021 filing group.  It really brings home that it has been almost a year of waiting.  Hopefully those of us still waiting will hear something before too long.

The PDF of the interview letter has appeared on the website.  April 7th.
 
Does anyone know how the California 10 day quarantine for out of state travel affect things?  I shall have to travel in late March but will be back on the last weekend of March so will be just out of quarantine before the interview.  They don't mention anything about out of state travel, just out of USA travel in the letter.

Talk about prophetic.  I just got an email to say an interview has been scheduled.  No date as yet.  Hopefully by tomorrow it will be uploaded.  Super excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel!!

The letter has been uploaded to the website.  Interview is April 7th.

Woo Hoo!! Just got an email to say interview has been scheduled.  No details on the website yet.  Hopefully they will upload a copy of the letter by tomorrow.

Just saw a March 2021 filing group.  It really brings home that it has been almost a year of waiting.  Hopefully those of us still waiting will hear something before too long.

Just saw a March 2021 filing group.  It really brings home that it has been almost a year of waiting.  Hopefully those of us still waiting will hear something before too long.

Just saw a March 2021 filing group.  It really brings home that it has been almost a year of waiting.  Hopefully those of us still waiting will hear something before too long.

Just saw a March 2021 filing group.  It really brings home that it has been almost a year of waiting.  Hopefully those of us still waiting will hear something before too long.

Congratulations!  I hope your oath ceremony is soon so you can be finished with this whole process.

The citizenship application is not complicated.  I suggest you do it online as the website will list what documents it wants, and you cannot submit until it is complete, so there is less chance of missing something.  There can be problems with uploading the scans of the documents so I suggest that you place the scans in a special folder then when ready to submit upload all the documents and submit all at one time.
 
The 5 year citizenship application needs very few documents compared to the others.  From memory they did not ask for any financial documents for the application.  I will be bringing tax transcripts, and a few other financial documents to the interview just in case.

The Military based applications can go through much more quickly.  You may need to get someone in your chain of command to inform USCIS that they want it processed before May.  I recall there was someone, maybe a June filer in Arizona (not sure), but they had his N400 done in 2 months or so.  From memory he was due to go on deployment, so that may be a stronger factor for speeding things up.