Carlos Santana

It's almost a year to the date i got my citizenship and just had to stop by this thread. It's funny how i was always on here hoping, lurking and freaking out with every post lol... now it's just but a memory. Life is funny that way. Glad to see most, if not all have gotten their citizenship. 
 
For anyone still in this journey, please know that yours will come and go and all the worrying, what-ifs and random panicking will be long gone. Wishing everyone the best of luck in their respective journeys and thanks to this forum for making my life bearable for that entire process.
 
peace and love

Passed my interview yesterday! Brought all documents and all of that jazz, and the agent never asked for a single thing other than my green card and interview letter. Apparently I had sent in more than enough information when I sent the application. Only thing we had to change was my trips to outside of the U.S. (which I had a few since submitting the application in March '18), and adding my son to the records since he also didn't exist when the application was submitted.
 
Nonetheless, it was pretty straight forward, and more or less split into 3 phases:
1. Sat with a lady and went over some of my information (which is when we added the new trips and my son to my records)
2. Civics/reading/writing test, which took maybe 5 minutes tops
3. Sit down with an actual agent who went over most of the yes/no questions with me again and got me to sign a few things, but didn't take more than 20 minutes either.
 
All in all, I got there at 10:30AM for my 11:30AM interview, and was out of there by 1:30PM. So as you can imagine, the only thing that took a while was the wait in between phases.
 
Regardless, I can't believe I am finally done with all of this! It's been 10 years since I left Brazil, and since then I've been a J1, a F1, had my OPT, conditional residency, permanent residency, and now, finally, will become a citizen
 
Now onto waiting for the oath ceremony!

Still keeping my fingers crossed! Always annoying to see April and May folks getting their interview letters but I shall keep my jealousy to a minimum

Still keeping my fingers crossed! Always annoying to see April and May folks getting their interview letters but I shall keep my jealousy to a minimum

I guess it is about time for me to call... I seem to be one of the few left who haven't gotten an interview letter or anything like that (though my fingerprints were one of the last ones for the March fillers).
 
Currently the website shows:
 
Estimated wait time:
We are taking longer than expected to process your case. You do not need to do anything at this time
 
So that is a bummer...

I guess it is about time for me to call... I seem to be one of the few left who haven't gotten an interview letter or anything like that (though my fingerprints were one of the last ones for the March fillers).
 
Currently the website shows:
 
Estimated wait time:
We are taking longer than expected to process your case. You do not need to do anything at this time
 
So that is a bummer...

Yep! It's funny because my wife is actually due on January 28th, so my baby will be a citizen before me, haha. Nonetheless, I am glad he won't have to go through this process. Since I first came here on a J1 visa for a foreign exchange program in high school, it's been about 10 years of visas, renewals, paperwork and all that jazz we are all too familiar with. It surely feels good to know it will all end soon.

Congrats! I am at the Atlanta office as well but submitted mine by mail (and some 10 days after you, it seems), so hopefully the mail vs online thing won't matter and I shall be getting an update in the next few weeks. Nonetheless, just this morning I got yet another "No changes at this time" e-mail. This thing is almost celebrating its first birthday, haha.

I guess I really screwed myself over for doing this by mail... My estimated completion is September 2019, while there's already people getting their passports in here, this wait is insane! Gotta love Atlanta, where not only the traffic is slow, but so is everything else, haha.

Seems like it really is an Atlanta thing then; how lucky of us, haha.

Adding myself back to it as I seem to have been removed... 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GC-Date: The 'Resident Since' Date located on your first green card.
Sent: Date N-400 was mailed to USCIS.
Cashd: Date your check was cashed / credit card was charged by USCIS.
NOA: Receipt Notice Date Printed on your official I-797 notification.
Fprints:  Date assigned for fingerprinting (Bio-metrics). If you do your biometrics via walk-in prior to your scheduled appointment, please enter the date in bold blue.
In Line: Date you received e-notification about the start of your interview scheduling.
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Interview: Date of your interview.
Oath: Date Oath taken.
Field Office: Your local USCIS office where you will have the N-400 interview.

With my luck, Atlanta will take 18 months to process it, haha.
 
Edit: just found the estimated data on my account "19 months / November 2019". So yeah, my own estimate was less worse than that, haha.