Mrs_M

DCF is a really good gig! Instead of waiting for months for your petition to get approved you will get it done within one month locally. Don't worry too much. I have got my CR-1 in my passport in four months. Same thing USAF member and ROK national )

Hello, everyone!

I am a military spouse, got my naturalization done last year. Tried to apply for passport on behalf of my child on base, but passport office denied our application. I even called local US embassy and they also confirmed that overseas, they cannot make passport for minor without Naturalization Certificate due to some kind of disagreement between US Homeland Security and US Department of the State. Applied for N-600 in March. Got notification that our case was sent to the local office in April, since that it has been 6 months. So last night I called to USCIS military line and customer service representative said that they cannot see in the system which local office is our case pending with, so she transferred call to the second level immigration officer. He figured out that our case is pending with NYC Field Office and he couldn't give me and adequate answer why is it there if we are currently stationed in Japan and our home of records is Utah. I also checked NYC Field Office processing time for N-600 and I was quite shocked of how far behind this office is. Apparently now they are processing applications from June 2015 and their processing time update was on august 11, so that puts us in another year or so of waiting! The question is why are we even assigned with this busy office, we have nothing to do with NYC!