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2 hours ago, khanhdoan310 said:

I just came back from the Santa Ana field office. The whole process took about 20 minutes max and was unexpectedly pleasant to my surprise (there was only 1 couple before me so no wait; the officers were nice and respectful). They took my green card and stamped my passport, which is good for a year. 

When a lot of people are waiting 15-20 months for I-751 approval and if USCIS does anything in 20 minutes,  I would be unexpectedly pleasant too!   

On 8/19/2019 at 10:11 AM, yolkanav said:

Hello, I see that one of the requirements for N-400 if based on married to a US citizen is to provide a current marriage certificate.

We got married abroad and provided a translation for the green card process 5 years ago. Can we re-submit that or do we need to get another marriage certificate and re-translate it?

Thanks a lot

 Yes resubmit the one you submitted 5 years ago ( translated version).

[1] I put unemployed, since wife was house wife and no issue to get citizenship [2] Two days gap- put unemployed 

2 hours ago, gnakr said:

I think this thread has ran its course, and has started veering too far away from OPs original question. She's been presented with all the basic facts, and she has accordingly decided on a course of action. I don't think there is a need to add anymore to what must be an otherwise stressful time for her.

I agree - Can any moderators stop to post on this?

3 hours ago, Davide66 said:

Today I called USCIS from overseas, and I was told that there would be no problem rescheduling my naturalization interview provided that I mail them a letter requesting the postponement supported by medical documentation from my doctor.

Tomorrow I will be mailing through DHL everything I need to send to USCIS.

Problem solved.

Are you going to ask to reschedule after April 2020?  Just curious

On 8/18/2019 at 8:59 AM, Davide66 said:

Obviously your mother didn't have any complications during pregnancy, didn't have a C-section, and didn't put you on a 22-hours, 3-legs intercontinental flight.

On 8/17/2019 at 7:47 AM, Davide66 said:

The pregnancy is affecting me both physically and emotionally. There is no way I can tackle an intercontinental flight in my conditions.

I thought that the residency requirement allowed for a 1 year stay abroad, not 6 months.

No comment.

On 8/17/2019 at 8:46 PM, aionescu said:

Hello everyone, 

 

An update on my case: I submitted my ROC petition on Dec 22, 2017 at the CSC. There was no movement on my case other than the transfer to another office, which I'm not even sure ever happened, my case stayed with CSC. I applied for naturalization when I became eligible, in December 2018. In June 2019 I received an invitation to go to my N400 interview in Jacksonville FL, which happened on July 11. I emailed them to ask if it was going to be a combo interview, as my I751 hadn't gotten approved. They replied with a generic message that never actually answered my question. The interview ended up being a combo interview. I finally became a citizen yesterday, Aug 16, 2019, thus concluding my journey. 

 

I wanted to thank everyone here for all your posts. They helped me a LOT, from making me understand I was not the only one going through this, to getting advice from you guys or just reading about your experiences. I sincerely hope this will be over soon for everyone and wish you nothing but the best!! 

Congratulations.  Just apply the passport and also passport card ( will be handy to keep in your wallet for prove of citizenship ) and you will be done.  Also update social security

20 hours ago, momsintheer said:

Update: She's still in the hospital today. It's the 18th today and the oath ceremony is on the 22nd. I haven't sent the letter yet and I haven't written it yet.

 

When I brought up this issue a few days ago, my mom seemed to think she'd get out by the 22nd. It's getting so close and I'm worried about this. She said that she can't miss that date because it's so important and dismissed the idea of sending a letter.

 

If my mom's feeling better today(she wasn't up for talking yesterday), I'll bring up this issue again.

They accommodate wheel chair and she does not have to get up to take oath, she can sit on her wheel chair and they will come to her to hand-over the certificate.  So , if she is up to it, go for it or change date.

23 hours ago, samoak78 said:

Got a I-551 Stamp today at USCIS San Francisco.  They had 12 or 13 counters and only 1 was open and active I waited for about 2 hours my appointment was at 9:45 AM. The USCIS officer seemed annoyed that I was there she grabbed my passport and the 18 month extension notice asked me to wait for 10 minutes and about 25 minutes later the automated system called my number and when I went to pick up my passport it was just lying there. I tried to talk to her and asked her if she could tell me more information about my case and her response was "Go online and check it." So now I have a I-551 Stamp until August 16th 2020. N400 Pending and that is my update Folks.

Hopefully, you will get your citizenship before August 2020

16 hours ago, philw said:

 

Hi all 

I filed n400 online  june 11th, had biometrics and estimated completion date of may 2020..

Evidence sent

Marriage certificate, 

Spouse previous marriage divorce certificate. 

10 year green card front and back.

Tax returns last 4 years. 

Spouse passport page.

Updated police certificates. 

Additional evidence sent 

Joint car title deed on new car.

Title deed new house.

Most recent mortgage statement.

Was thinking of adding ...

Photocopies of our driving licenses side by side with the 3 different physical addresses we have lived at.

A page with 4 bank debit cards showing joint accounts. 

A page showing photocopies of our credit cards ( me as authorized user).

Should i upload  copies of living will, medical power of attorney etc.???

Also i am printing off monthly mortgage statements, excel  energy statements and bank statements (every few months). Should i upload these or just take it all along with the r.o.c. evidence in folders to the interview.  I applied within a couple of weeks of r.o.c. approval how much paperwork do they want?????

Ty for all and any advice...

So happy to be nearing the finishing line.

Philip 

 

 

 

You already submitted those.  At this point, only advice is to take original of all those documents for Interview.  IO might not see any.  You added more than needed documents for N-400,  so relax 

22 hours ago, coloradaninperu said:

Hi All!

My husband finally was granted an interview, a year after applying, for naturalization. He interviewed in Baltimore on July 12. We were married in 2014 using a K-1 visa. He passed the civics and English test quickly and had a nice conversation with the employee interviewing him, but he was a little nervous and couldn't remember some exact travel dates, etc. He had all of the travel documents to show her (and never traveled for more than 21 days at a time), but she said she didn't need to see them. He also had all of our marriage info, tax returns, photos of our daughter and ultrasounds of our new baby, a copy of our mortgage, bank transcripts, school/work records, etc. etc. 

He received a "decision cannot be made at this time" letter, but the interviewer hinted that he should keep checking his mail for an oath notice. It's now been a month, and we haven't heard anything. The Baltimore office isn't taking infopass appointments, and the customer service line told us we have to wait 60 days before we can inquire with them. 

He has no criminal record, speeding tickets, etc. 

Did anyone experience something similar? How long did it take for the oath scheduling to come through? Thanks!!

Could you find out the frequency of oath ceremony @ Baltimore?  May be no ceremony is scheduled yet?

 You can correct it when you go for interview, but I would suggest when IO will go through your N-400 application with your , then mention the correction, not at the beginning of the interview.  Let IO go through oath, signature , picture, civil question, writing and reading first.  

On 8/14/2019 at 11:45 PM, addy&julie said:

I literally just went in for infopass today to get I-551 stamp as my 18month will expire next month. The officer that called to give me the appointment did not gimme any info on my case. See my answers below

 

1. Will you be asked to Surrender your Expired Green Card?

Answer: They asked to see my green card, extension letter and foreign passport but my Green card was returned to me. I have read somewheres before where they take people's green card. I guess it's based different practices of individual field offices.

 

2. How long will the I 551 Stamp be valid for?

Answer: Its valid for 1 year. Mine that I got today is valid till 8/13/2020

 

3. Can you ask the Officer to check the exact status of your case? Meaning is someone actually looking at all the supporting documents you sent and is making progress on your case. 

 

Answer: I asked the officer but she had no information other than that it's still with Laguna Niguel and checked processing times on the uscis website.

 

4. If you have filed N400 will the Officer be able to help you set up a combined interview in the future if your I-551 and N-400 are combined together avoiding confusion in the future where you pass your N-400 and your I-551 is still being processed. 

 

Answer: I did not file for N400 but the officers at the info pass had no information regarding anyone's case I met today.

 

Please share your thoughts. Thank you.

You are all set until 8/13/2020 and now the  waiting game and hope that your I-751 will  be approved soon.  Expired GC is of no use, since you have I-551 stamp and you need to use it now for travel abroad.  You might or might not have to go for a secondary inspection with I-551 stamp when you will get in.   IO office does not know more you know based on your online check and information in this board.  I have better luck to check this board than calling IO and I never called and did not ask any question when I went for my I-551 stamp. 

3 hours ago, realizment said:

Ok thank you, do you think i should consult an officer there on the day?

Did you  drive any car and got traffic ticket or your drivers drove and  they got ticket?  

It seems that they are waiting for ceremony to be occurred  before they can update you account about oath has been scheduled.  

Agree check only 5 year box

6 minutes ago, Rick&Maeve said:

Thank you.

 

When I did some research on additional evidence in this forum, I read that I should treat additional evidence as a mini-ROC ? So uploading this much evidence is with the online application is out of the norm? I'm trying to avoid an RFE's but it just feels odd that they don't want to see more evidence for the N-400.

Okay, since you have everything ready to add as additional documents , go ahead and add those.   Nothing harm to add more documents.   May be I got lazy after submitting all those documents during I-751 and decided not to add those and got approval

This is not I-751 application, so no need to add  everything

• Copies of Passport pages along with flight itinerary(2 trips out of US 2 weeks each)- no need
• Copies of Utilities bills - you many add as additional evidence
• Copies of 8-16 photos together (i.e. wedding, graduation, vacations etc.)- no need
• Notarized Affidavits from family members.- no need
• Health directive- no need
• 3 months of bank statement would be fine, since you are adding tax transcript.
• No need to notarized lease documents- but add them as additional evidence

What answer did you provide when you applied for N-400?

10 hours ago, ralphdarwin said:

Still waiting. My last update was when I did my biometrics last Feb. I’m kind of regretting applying for N400 I feel like it made my I-751 processing longer, it would be two years on Nov. ‘19 since. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do not regret. I had the same feeling.  Now I am happy that I am a US Citizen.    If your ultimate goal is to get  a US citizen, then you are within the reach of it.  Once your N-400 interview schedule, you will get both approval.   How long others are waiting in your local office?  When are you expecting to get your N-400 interview?

43 minutes ago, kkg325 said:

We applied for I-751 in December 2017 and it got transferred to our local office in April 2018. We applied for N-400 in December 2018. We got called for N-400 interview on August 6, 2019. In advance of the interview I submitted the “longer than normal processing time” form online but didn’t hear anything back on it. My wife went in for N-400 interview last week. We prepared documents for I-751 and N-400 just in case. The officer only did one interview and never asked me (the US citizen spouse) to come in to the interview.  Her case is a bit complicated for reasons besides the pending I-751, so the IO gave us the “A decision cannot yet he made on your case” letter at the end of the interview. Three days later our online status changed to say that new green card is being produced and that we are in like for oath. This is Hartford, CT office. 

It is same as mine.  Interview June 28, both approved  on July 3, 2019.  Oath July 15th.

9 minutes ago, Longrangeshootr said:

My wife has been scheduled for N-400 interview September 6 in Houston. I’ve seen where one lady in Houston had her interview about 2 weeks ago with a pending I-751and she said that the officer told her she was only doing her N-400 and would review her I-751 later and make a decision, she is still waiting. I seen  a couple others in other cities, somewhat the same scenario, they had there N-400 scheduled then cancelled because the I-751 paperwork had not made it to the local office. Then they were rescheduled waiting for there new interview. So what I did was contacted the USCIS for outside the normal processing times for my wife’s I-751 case which has had no movement in 532 days. There response was a generic sorry it’s taking so long. We cannot give you an update on when we will adjudicate the I-751. I replied with we have a pending N-400 can you please send the I-751 to Houston so we can have a combo interview. That was this afternoon, let’s see what the response will be.

I was November 2017, but Philadelphia local office and N-400 interview and IO told me that he would review I-751 and both approved, 

2 hours ago, LightDisplay said:

Do they totally destroy the Naturalization certificate during the passport process (Mailing to and Mailing back process) ? Or do they handle it with care and not bend it?

I think, they handle it carefully, I got mine back without any fold mark.  Also, after you have passport, NC certificate will go on hiding somewhere in your storage and might not see daylight again.  

4 hours ago, addy&julie said:

I received a call today and my infopass was scheduled for Tomorrow to get i551 stamp at the San Francisco field Office. I was shocked that they had a lot of appointments open from tomorrow through Friday...

In the past, inforpass was misused.  That is the reason they changed it and now only those need will get infopass. Glad you go it for tomorrow.  They might take your GC, request to IO to give you back.

37 minutes ago, meadowzephyr said:

Thank you @RalphT and @Lil bear for your help!

With 5 years rule as others said, no need to submit relationship related financial papers, but be prepare to take during interview.