Tony and Daisy

Simple rule of thumb.... Bring a copy/original (if available) of EVERYTHING you submitted in the N400 packet PLUS anything they list on the interview letter PLUS anything else you can think of that will strengthen your case. Chances are nothing more than what's on the letter will be requested at the interview, but it's better ot be over-prepared than to be missing something.

Daisy had her citizenship interview today in Honolulu and passed!!!!! My wife and daughter will both become US Citizens Wednesday at the Oath ceremony!!! WOOHOO I am so proud of her.

I know most if not all are no longer watching this thread, but I wanted to post an update since we all started here.
Saturday we are off to Hawaii from South Korea for our first anniversary and Daisy's Naturalization interview. She can naturalize this fast because I am working for the US Government here in Kroea. Daisy's interview is monday and she is so nervous even though she is scoring over 90% consistently on the practice tests. I guess it's expected since this is her last big thing to do with Immigration. NO ROC!!!!! YAY!!! I'm praying that the interview is short and easy for her, but I am confident in her ability to get through it. We are taking my parents to Hawaii with us for their 50th wedding anniversary also. Next week is going to be a great week for the Ricciotti clan. I'll update you all when she is done.

Daisy had her interview today and passed without any major problems. I was called in because of questions about our "Hawaiian residence" as we are in from overseas and Daisy didn't have out hotel address and there was a question about my employment by the US Military. Her Oath is on wednesday the 10h and I have made her red in the new chart since I won't be on for the rest of the week. Below is the list of questions she was asked. Good luck everyone, your day will come.
Who is the governor of your state. Daisy started to answer Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire) but the IO moved on and didn't take off for an incorrect answer because she was expecting Hawaii and doesn't know the New Hampshire Governor.
What is one promise you make when you become a US Citizen?
Name two national US holidays.
Where is the statue of liberty?
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
What did Martin Luther King Jr. do?
Who was the first President?
She was asked to read the question "Who lives in the white house?" then was asked to write "The President lives in the White House."
After that the IO went through the N-400.

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GC-Date: The 'Resident Since' Date located on your first green card
Sent: Date N-400 was mailed to USCIS
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Just got notice through the website that Daisy was scheduled for interview. No "In-Line" nothing haha. The letter will take about 7 days to get here so we don't know when. We hope it's after August 15, but we will see. Happy to have it scheduled, but it will be about a month earlier than expected and hoped for. LOL

Just to expand on what JimmyHou has talked about. I feel we all need to relax a little. I completely understand wanting this to be done fast, but this is the government. Sometimes fast and efficient but not typically. If we all remember back to the K1/IR1 process, it was 6-12 months for most of us. Going back through the timelines, it is exceedingly rare for them to take that long.
Just as a note: Daisy and I will be on a short notice to fly from Korea to Hawaii for 3 of us for her interview. Most of you have a fairly local office to deal with and just need to take 1-3 days off of work for the process. For us, this will be at least $7000.00 and a last minute notice at a critical time in my project timeline to go for her interview.
All I am saying is don't let frustration take over and just enjoy your preparation for your interview and the summer that we have upon us. Life is good.

The three facilities (in Arizona, Nebraska, and Texas) to which applications are initially sent are only receiving facilities.
All applications are then sent to the National Benefits Center in Lee Summit, Missouri for processing. That's why your case number starts with the letters NBC.
After your background check is done, the NBC will forward your file to your local office for the interviewing stage of the process.

It might take a day or two to show up in the system.

1: Don't worry about the +4
2: It's the "Resident Since" date on your green card.
3: I can't help with that, we couldn't file electronically.
4: A Fitness club is like a gym membership, they are looking more for civic organizations.

I don't see anywhere that they are asking about continuous employment so I would not worry about that.

At long long last the interview letter came in the mail this morning. Interview date is exactly one (slightly shorter as it's Feb) month from today.

Congrats to all recent approvals.
Congrats to Sabrina and Chuck on expecting the new addition to their family. That is wonderful and made me smile.
Daisy, Jessica and I arrived on Tuesday after a list of delayed flights and missed connections, but all in all it wasn't too bad getting home 3 hours after the scheduled arrival.
POE in Guam was easy and relatively fast, going through Honolulu for customs sucked though. LOL
We are all settling in and having fun. Normal separation issues for a 5 year old child that isn't an english speaker but we are working with that and mixing the tagalog and english to help her along.
Tomorrow we are off to the social security office then on monday there again to get her SSN and then to the Nebraska state offices to get Daisy a State ID card.

That's great. Congrats!
I will be attending CFO on wednesday

Daisy ordered her dress Sunday to be delivered to her mom on the 25th, so it's looking like the 28th to come to the US for us. I'm almost ready to book tickets myself.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.
Daisy and I have been going over the packet she is taking to the embassy. I sent her my last 3 pay stubs by dropbox over the weekend for her to print so she has the latest ones of those.I expect the interview on the 29th to go smoothly and hope the DoS has the printing system issue cleared up by then. Tonight we will be doing a mock interview (her idea) to make sure she knows what paperwork is what by name and not by explanation.
Anyone have any tips or potential gotchas we should discuss?

Medical is complete!!!!!! No problems, vaccinations are done.... Interview date changed to June 29.

I rescheduled it for an earlier day. I did it through the ustraveldocs website. There is an option to reschedule an appointment.

Medical is complete!!!!!! No problems, vaccinations are done.... Interview date changed to June 29.

Yup, Jessica is 100% clear. We are just waiting on Daisy's bloodwork. But, I'm not concerned about that. So medical should be complete Thursday.

Yup, Jessica is 100% clear. We are just waiting on Daisy's bloodwork. But, I'm not concerned about that. So medical should be complete Thursday.

I got home from a wonderful 10 days with Daisy and my step-daughter. Missing them both like crazy now. Our paperwork is at USEM ready to rock and roll and we are ready for the medical to be done once our daughters passport comes in from the DFA. The progress is going so fast and we are very happy about that. Then, I got an email last thursday that changed everything. LOL
I work as a contractor for the Military and just received a job offer in Korea to start in September. So, now the discussions start and we are both excited about the opportunity to spend 5 years in Korea. I was there a lot in the 80's when I was in the US Air Force and Daisy always wanted to go. I have done the research on schools and there are excellent options. The issue comes in with the K1 and advanced parole. If they could get here in July, then they probably would end up being with my parents for a couple months which we don't want to have happen since we spent the time to get them to the US only to be separated again. We could stop the K1, I fly to the Philippines, get married and let my company and the army work out her visa for Korea (which is covered). The issue is timing, they can't give me the "official" offer until August.
What a conundrum......

I got our MNL# today!!!! So excited. I didn't stay online for the DHL number because I was going to be put into another queue. I will be in Manila on Saturday night and will just take care of the DS-160 with Daisy from there as well as paying the requisite fees for the K1/K2 at that time.
I finished taking care of Skype (15 page), Hangouts (for video only, 2 pages) and Viber (41 pages). Is that enough HAHAHAHA It's of course, not the complete chat log from Viber as we had over 100,000 messages there. It's tough to condense very well when you chat ~4 hours every day. LOL

Thanks

Hmm that's exactly one week from NOA2 to NVC. Mine is one week as week today so, let me try to call now. Do you have the number for NVC?

thank you my friend❤️I hope it happens soon for you!!❤️ all you need is sun lotion and a cold beer and youre set ???? good job! Have a great trip to your loved one!!