orangeitaly23

Just got back to my husband's work assignment in the UK after a whirlwind 72 hours in california. The oath was amazing!!! Looks like quite a few of us were at the AM session in LA Thursday?? All in all there were 3071 naturalized that morning I believe, from 143 countries. Truly incredible. I loved how quick it all was, too. The ceremony itself was 30 minutes, very precise and punctual.
Friday I spent the day at the passport agency in San Diego getting an emergency US passport for our travel back to the UK saturday, and I must say, it TRULY hit me that I was a US citizen when they handed me my beautiful blue US passport that afternoon!! So exciting!!!
I still can't believe it all!! Good luck to everyone coming up on interviews and oath ceremonies, and congrats to everyone who is officially American!! Woohoo!!!

Just got back to my husband's work assignment in the UK after a whirlwind 72 hours in california. The oath was amazing!!! Looks like quite a few of us were at the AM session in LA Thursday?? All in all there were 3071 naturalized that morning I believe, from 143 countries. Truly incredible. I loved how quick it all was, too. The ceremony itself was 30 minutes, very precise and punctual.
Friday I spent the day at the passport agency in San Diego getting an emergency US passport for our travel back to the UK saturday, and I must say, it TRULY hit me that I was a US citizen when they handed me my beautiful blue US passport that afternoon!! So exciting!!!
I still can't believe it all!! Good luck to everyone coming up on interviews and oath ceremonies, and congrats to everyone who is officially American!! Woohoo!!!

Don't worry, we had a terrible interview experience too, a very aggressive IO, but in the end the supervisor signed off no problem! I'm sure it'll be the same for you!!
On the other hand, though.... guys, I need your help!!! :-O
My interview was last Tuesday. I was freaking out for the same reason as Shounok, wondering if I was going to be approved or not because my IO was so terrible, but then Friday afternoon I got a text saying straightaway that my oath had been scheduled! I was super happy, especially since I knew there was an August date coming up for Santa Ana/ Los Angeles oath ceremony a little less than 4 weeks out at that point, so I was positive that I had been put into that one!
Well, bad news... just got our mail, and our oath ceremony was scheduled for..... (drum roll) YESTERDAY!!!! What the heck!?!??!
The letter is postmarked last Friday, i.e. the 15th, and the ceremony was for July 20 at 12:10 pm. We don't even get our mailman dropping our mail off until **5 PM**!!! I am so upset that they would schedule the oath so close, and then rely on USPS to get us the letter in time!!!!
Obviously I immediately overnighted a letter explaining that we didn't get the oath notice until too late, as well as the original oath ceremony notice, to the Santa Ana office per the instructions on the letter. I also made a copy of both and am going to hand deliver it to the guard in front of the building, to see if he can get it inside any faster. But I'm super stressing, after all the crazy stories of people having to reschedule their oaths and never hearing anything back!! Why would they have scheduled it like that?!?!
Anyways, if you have any advice or anything on other things I can do, please let me know!!! Apparently I could have been a US citizen yesterday.... oh well, my time soon will come! ;-)
Thanks guys!