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Thought I should post this, simply because it is so frickin' ironic. In all my years of entering the US on various visa classifications and a green card, I never had any of my documents questioned for their authenticity. However, the first time I reenter MY own country as a US citizen with a beautiful new US passport, the CBP official stares at me with extreme hostility and suspicion and asks if this is a stolen passport. She actually proceeds to check it against various databases to see if it was reported lost or stolen. Finally she lets me through. I guess to her there is no way I can be a real American with my brown skin and different accent. Sigh. And I thought life would actually get easier once one became a citizen. BTW my spouse (who is a white European) never had these issues even though he too was recently naturalized and was carrying a brand new US passport. Go figure...

One person wrote on here that at her interview she was asked "what is the rule of law" and the officer insisted that she had to mention all four things written in the test booklet otherwise she would be marked wrong. So I guess it depends on the officer, as so much seems to do. There seems to be so much inconsistency between different applicants' experiences that it is hard to predict how things will go. To be safe I am memorizing everything, which is pretty easy if you listen to the CD when driving...

Because they have more applicants to process.