RaptureSongbird

1 minute ago, zMay said:

Congratulations!!! 

 

Any questions about the i751 case on the n400 interview? Or just straight up n400 interview? I have scheduled interview as well in few days.

Everything was just related to the n400, nothing brought up about the i751.  The interviewer did have the complete case file (K1, AOS, RoC, and N400) on his desk.  It was amazing to see it all together and the pile of paperwork that we've submitted.  He did end up going way back in time with the employment history, asking questions about jobs listed back in 2016-2017 before arriving in the United States.  Otherwise it seemed like a very standard N400 Interview and appeared that they were rushing to get the interviews scheduled for that day completed so everyone could attend the same day oath ceremony.  After we came back at the appointed time, there was only 1 new person in the waiting room who had apparently been scheduled previously to come in that day, otherwise, everyone else participating had just completed their interview.  It made filling out the required "Page 4" for the Oath Ceremony a bit funny because the questions all relate to the time between your interview and Oath Ceremony and include questions like "Since your interview, have you married, or been widowed, separated or divorced?" and  "Since your interview, have you committed any crime or offence, for which you have not been arrested?" and we joked a bit in the hour wait about trying to fit those things in.

Yesterday completed our path through immigration and citizenship.  Interview was scheduled for 1:00pm, called in at 1:20pm, finished at 1:35pm.  The interviewer was straight and to the point, started by first completing the civics questions and stopped after the 6th (for anyone curious questions were:  What does the constitution do?, What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is known for?,  When was the constitution written?, Name one American Indian tribe in the United States., Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?, and There were 13 original states.  Name three.), then some of the yes/no questions, updates to employment and travel history, then the reading portion (What month is Columbus Day?), then the written portion (Washington D.C. is the capital), then a quick wrap up and done.  Was told to come back at 2:45pm for a Same Day Oath Ceremony, which didn't take place until about 3:15, Certificate of Naturalization received and process now complete.

22 hours ago, zMay said:

Anyone have been on the naturalization interview after this approved i751 move to another office??

Yep.  Got notification on January 15th that an interview was scheduled.  Interview was yesterday, passed successfully, and was able to do a Same Day Oath Ceremony.

I was hoping to get some advice on this, I tried to search topics and found some conflicting information so was hoping someone might have some advice/recent experience with this.  My partner recently (last week) lost both his driver's license and green card.  We already have received his replacement driver's license so that's taken care of.  This morning we woke up to a notification that his N400 interview has been scheduled for February 22nd.  Now, I know that we can file a I-90 for a replacement green card, and pay the fee, but I was hoping to avoid this because of the cost and the fact that he won't likely have a replacement card before the interview (current processing times of a I-90 are 7 to 14 months according to USCIS website).  We still have his 2 year expired green card and all other paperwork from all steps in this process (I129f, AOS, I751, all notifications received in the mail, and a photocopy of his 10 year green card).  Since the letter sates the green card must be brought do you think they will accept the expired 2 year green card with an explanation that the 10 year was lost and we didn't want to pay the fee for a replacement since it would no longer be needed/valid/arrive in time before the interview or do we just need to bite the bullet, pay for the I90, and then attend the interview with the expired card plus the I90?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I also just noticed that all of us that have received this and have a timeline set up have the Chicago Office listed as our Local Office.

Same here.  Applied for N400 end of March 2021, received 10 year Green Card April 2021 (no interview), and yesterday I-751 updated to "Your Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, was transferred to another USCIS office" and today there is an update that says "Case was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction.  I'm really leaning towards the explanation above that the N400 is in final review at our local offices and they requested the I-751s be sent to have as a part of the final prep/interview.

1 hour ago, Greg C said:

Estimated time until case decision changed from 10 months to 8 months today (Chicago field office) - I know these aren't accurate but just wanted to share the false sense of progress and positivity! Ha

Just logged in to check (same field office) and it's still showing 10 months.  Maybe a difference between our filing dates since we applied at the end of March.

1 hour ago, GC-Cleveland said:

Haha! Yep, been through this roller coaster so just keep your hopes up. Since you've filed in March, I reckon your interview notice should be on its way!

Thanks!  Not going to hold my breath since Chicago seems a bit backed up, just hoping to get it done before moving next year.

16 hours ago, GC-Cleveland said:

Does it say, "...we've sent you the notice" or "...we've emailed you the notice"? I remember this happened to some of us where it was updated from:

"We received your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, and emailed you a receipt notice." to "We received your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, and sent you a receipt notice."

Yep, it now says sent instead of emailed.  What an odd update to make that would trigger the "we've taken an action on your case email"....got my hopes up that an interview was about to be scheduled.....oh well.  Thanks!

Had an odd thing happen and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.  On Saturday at 5:45am I got an email from USCIS stating "We have taken an action on your case.  Sign into your account to view your case status." so I logged in and saw no update besides "Case was received" and no updated documents.  I checked a few other times throughout Saturday and it remained the same.  On Sunday I decided to check again a couple of times, thinking maybe the update might require an overnight process to update, but case was still on received.  I then logged in this morning to check, thinking maybe updates don't happen on the weekends and they get pushed to Mondays, and case is still on the received status.  I don't know if it was an email that got sent out in error, or if they've started to work on the case but the system hasn't updated, so wanted to check in to see if anyone else had experienced this.

1 minute ago, Clemsontigersfan said:

Congratulations!

Where is your service center?

Thanks!  LIN

Update today!  Case updated to New Card is Being Produced.

Just submitted the application online.  Still have I-751 pending but wanted to get the ball rolling on this.  Right now estimated completion is January 2022.

364 days later and case has finally updated to "Case was updated to show fingerprints were taken".  So, finally, some progress!  Hopefully since it looks like we'll be bypassing Biometrics, even though it seems like some people are attending appointments for those now, we'll soonish move onto card processing/produced/mailed.

Almost at the year mark here at LIN and not a single update on the case except that it's been received, no fingerprints reused, no biometrics appointment, nothing.

On 1/8/2021 at 8:39 AM, Vuvuzela said:

Congrats to everyone who got their cars. I'm LIN first week of March filer. Case status still shows "case was received". Received the extension letter early on but no updates whatsoever. I see many cases filed after mine at LIN are moving. Sadly mine is not. Not even fingerprints. 

Same situation here for LIN.  Case status still listed as Case Was Received and in the 20 cases (10+/-) around ours they have all either had card produced/picked up/delivered (11), transferred (1), incorrect form used (4), cannot provide details about the case and to call (3), or approved (1).  I'm hoping that since everyone around us has seen movement that we'll see something soon.  Hopefully we won't end up getting transferred/interview because we already did an interview for AOS.

NOA received today.  Package sent the 10th, delivery on the 11th.  Check was cashed on the 17th and NOA arrived today (20th).  We are heading through LIN.

4 hours ago, Troy P said:

So it appears we never received a text and yes we completed the form to receive them. Credit Card is processing so I guess we will wait for the letter, or else the text just may be late.

For both the K-1 and AOS we submitted the electronic notification request for both text and emails and, through both of those processes, we never received any notifications.  So, this time around, we didn't even bother to include that form.

11 hours ago, Chicken7585 said:

I have some questions of you guys:

1. Did you put N/A in every blank space? The guide to filling in the form says so but I've never seen anyone actually do it.
2. Did you submit tax transcripts or your actual tax return (e.g filled out Form 1040 etc)?
3. How did you submit pictures? Did you paste two per page or did you print them out directly on the page?
4. What else did you submit as evidence that you haven't seen on the lists of documents?

1.  We didn't put N/A in every box which is what we did for the K-1 and AOS and had no problem.

2.  For 2017 and 2018 we included tax transcripts since they were easy to get from the IRS's website in a few minutes and printed those off.  Since we haven't filed 2019 yet (yeah yeah, I know, need to do it, lol), I included both of our W-2s for 2019 with a note that we will be filing in April.  This also showed another proof of address/living together so thought it would be good.  There's the potential that we'll get an RFE for 2019's taxes but by the time that rolls around we can print off the tax transcripts and send those back quickly.

3.  We actually didn't submit any photos this time.  After our experience with AOS (bringing more photos to the interview and those getting shrugged off), we decided that they had enough photos from the K-1 and AOS process that we didn't include any this time around.  We're also not really "let's take photos together" people, so didn't really have much to include.  I did include 2 flight itineraries from trips that we've taken together since AOS.  In our previous submissions what we would do with photos, since they were all electronic, was put them into a word document with like 4 on a page, then put a text box underneath listing the date of the photo, who was in the photos, and where the photo was taken.

4.  I can't think of anything that wasn't listed that we included.  We did include copies of our driver's licenses to show joint address along with copies of our debit cards.  The reason for the copies of the debit cards was because, while we have a joint account that lists both of our names, that account is really only used to pay the rent.  Our main account is only listed with my name on the statement but my husband has access and a debit card to use it.  So, I included a note explaining this, along with copies of both of our debit cards, so when they see the statement with just my name they will also see the activity of two debit cards that match the photocopies.

Hey everyone, going to go ahead and join into the discussion since we're about to submit.  We got the package finished over the weekend and will be shipping it out tomorrow to Phoenix via FedEx Overnight so it will have a Wednesday arrival date.  Let another phase in this journey begin!

I think it's a situation of it will neither help nor hurt your K1.  My partner, now husband, and I had matching tattoos before starting the K1 process.  I made a decision to go ahead and include photos of us together with our tattoos in my submission.  I honestly don't think it helped to sway their decision one way or the other but, for me, it provided another piece of proof/peace of mind in our application process.

It seems to vary from office to office if they tell you or not; I also feel like I've seen cases through the same field office where some have been told and some have not.  When we did AOS through Chicago we were not told one way or the other and had to wait about 4 weeks for our online status to update to approved.  I think this was likely because our original K-1 application had not made it to the Chicago Field Office before our AOS interview so that needed to arrive to be further reviewed before final approval.  Unfortunately, the only thing to do now is try to relax as the waiting game continues.  I'm certainly not looking forward to joining it all again when we apply for ROC In March 2020  🙂

Just now, chexmixer said:

Gah! Thank you so much! We did this two years ago when initially filing for his green card but I for the life of me couldn't remember if that's how it was! It made sense but I just wasn't sure. Thank you! 

No problem, happy to help!  The only way I remembered it was because I had to think of it like flight times that are based on local time zone 🙂

The time listed is based on the time zone of the facility you are assigned.  We had the opposite of you, live in Central had to go to Eastern, and we arrived at 10 AM local time.

We had the same thing last year with the Chicago Office.  We submitted in February, Biometrics in March, Notice of Interview Scheduled in April, Interview in May, and Green Card received in June.  It seems like sometimes random cases just speed through the Chicago office.