Oleksandra Ryan

On 5/9/2019 at 6:07 PM, klmnl2000 said:

How far prior your departure did you apply?

Two months

On 12/11/2018 at 10:53 AM, Aqualika said:

Hey! Great to hear that your wife is a citizen now. I also applied under 319b in October. Could you tell please,how long did you wait for the interview? How prior did you receive the notice about interview? Was it accurate  the estimate waiting time, that showed in your uscis account? Was it the same day ceremony?  I have so many questions))) I filed overseas, but I need to fly back to states for my interview, so I appreciate every shared experience here. Because its drives me crazy))) Thanks!!

Sorry I didn't respond to this I just saw it.  Do you still need the info?

15 hours ago, afortunada said:

Didn't realize the question was so old. Removed comment as OP definitely has moved forward.

I apologize for not updated the post earlier.  My wife had her interview in Alabama and it took them a little while to figure out how to proceed with our case because the supervisor thought 319(b) was only for military but they were able to verify everything and she in now a US citizen.  It was overall a nice experience.  Actually happy we ended up at the Alabama center.  

On 10/17/2018 at 9:10 PM, Oleksandra Ryan said:

I wanted to let everyone know my wife has a citizenship interview tomorrow.  We were able to file early under the (ina 319b) so the citizenship process has been going on since April but in the mean time her removal of conditions application needed to be submitted.  They received it August 22nd and the check was cashed October 1st but we haven't received any notice much like everyone else here.  Since we filed my wife's i-751 her green card has expired so she has to stay in the USA while I'm employed abroad.  I'm not sure how the citizen part will go tomorrow but while she has the officers ear she'll try to get some of these questions answered.  

 

Unfortunately I think that even if she passes the interview they can't move forward until her i751 is completed so hopefully we can at least come out of there tomorrow with a stamp in her passport and a good receipt number to check the status of her i751.  

Just an update on our interview.  They were able to proceed with the n400 interview but didn't have the i751 in their possession so my wife passed the interview but will need to go back to the office when they have the i751 so that can be approved first.  

The supervisor allowed me to sit in and ask questions because of the confusing way we filed everything.  I did ask about where is our physical i751 because we sent it to California but our check was cashed in Texas and they were able to track our filed to the persons desk it was on in Texas.  

I think that answers the question about if we sent our file to California and the check was cashed in another state where is the file.  She told me if it was cashed in Texas that is where its at.  

I wanted to let everyone know my wife has a citizenship interview tomorrow.  We were able to file early under the (ina 319b) so the citizenship process has been going on since April but in the mean time her removal of conditions application needed to be submitted.  They received it August 22nd and the check was cashed October 1st but we haven't received any notice much like everyone else here.  Since we filed my wife's i-751 her green card has expired so she has to stay in the USA while I'm employed abroad.  I'm not sure how the citizen part will go tomorrow but while she has the officers ear she'll try to get some of these questions answered.  

Unfortunately I think that even if she passes the interview they can't move forward until her i751 is completed so hopefully we can at least come out of there tomorrow with a stamp in her passport and a good receipt number to check the status of her i751.  

1 hour ago, AussieGC said:

No I sent mine to Laguna Niguel in CA and it got cashed in Dallas but I have a WAC receipt number.

Same here.  We sent ours to California and it was cashed in Dallas.

Congrats.  We received our interview notice for October 18th, I wonder if at this location it's possible to have a same day oath ceremony for 319b filers.   

Hello all!

I wanted to write a summary of the unique situation I am having on my wife's path to citizenship.  My wife became a conditional resident on September 24th 2016.  Earlier this year I was offered a position overseas which I accepted.  After doing a lot of research I decided to file my wife's N400 under the 319b and requested that we have the interview at the Fairfax Va location.  I filed that in April and she had her bio appointment on June 1st.  I was hoping we might be able to get a interview before leaving to start work overseas but that didn't end up happening.  

Since she is a conditional resident we still needed to file her i751 before her green card expired if we hadn't gotten the n400 interview yet.  We decided to wait around two months into the three month window to see if we were going to get an interview before we were required to send the i751 in.  We sent the package in three weeks ago to California but still haven't received the acceptance notification and our check hasn't been cashed yet.

This is where it gets interesting....  

We received a notice that our N400 interview is scheduled but it's being done at our local office which happens to be Montgomery Alabama.  We wanted to have it done at Fairfax because from what I understand they have a lot of experience with these cases and they also do same day oath ceremonies.  I suppose they can decided where we have the interview but I thought it was odd that if you are filing under 319b you can request where to have the interview.  

I've found a lot of information about people applying for citizenship while their ROC was pending so they had to wait and have both applications approved at the same time but I've never seen a situation like ours where we filed the N400 before the i751, have the citizenship interview scheduled prior to receiving notice that our ROC application has been received.  

I wonder if the 319b will trump the i751 because in this case it was filed before the ROC.  The only thing I got from the USCIS site is the N400 can't be approved if a i751 was filed before the N400.  

I plan to update this post just in case others run into a similar situation. 

I listed the travel outside of the USA since she arrived.  I sent the package off 10 days ago and the already cashed the check and stated they received it.  I'm going to put a post together to document my 319(b) experience so it might help others in the future. 

I want to bump this post because I will be filing under the 319b as well and need to know about listing all places lived over the past 5 years if my wife has only been living in the United States for two years.