Sarge2155

Good point, great tip!

We also used the @Crazy Cat move and added a letter requesting the combo interview. My wife's N-400 interview is next month so I am hoping to get notification it will be a combo interview. Regardless of notification or not both spouses should go to the N400 interview whether they will let you in is another matter, but at least you'll be there should it turn into a combo interview.

IOE means electronic / digital, once you get your hard copy of the NOA look down in the lower left corner it will have the center and address where your case is.

When you get the hard copy of your NOA or you go to your online account and look in documents folder, if you look in the lower left hand corner of your NOA it will tell you the place your case is at including address.

Check in your online account under the documents tab!

Yes If you get a reuse letter it will come later or it will be your appointment.

You can get a RFE at any time in the process including up to the interview and beyond!

Seems you are dead set to file, with so many VJers recommending that you wait, you would think that would be an omen for you. It's really up to you as we don't know your situation. You do you and whatever you feel is right for YOU! Keep us posted on your progress.

Then you'd also have to figure on the interview coming early as USCIS is known to do that too. Just to many variables and you are dealing with USCIS, to risk it just for a few months early.

Very good!

@Lightbird Great ending and congratulations!

With USCIS who knows!

Did you get the new 48 month extension?

Updates: We received the new 48 month extension letter in the mail today, so I guess they are sending out the extensions slowly but surely. We also received an interview date of April 11th 2023 for the N-400. Not sure if it is going to be a combo interview, but we are going to plan on having a combo interview and I will accompany my wife to her interview. @Crazy Cat said he received an email about a week before his wife's N-400 interview notifying them that it was in fact going to be a combo interview so we will see if we get that same email, if not we will still plan on a combo and adjust as such!

Yes we applied on January 6th, 2022, initially we got the 24 month extension, but just today we received the new 48 month extension letter in the mail! I guess USCIS is slowing sending them out now!

Wishing you all the best, let us know how it went!

@InspectorGrover thank you for posting we will be heading that way April 11, 2023, your information is quite useful as well as @Crazy Cat post. Thank you both!

Wait till they see our information and documents either we will get approved for fear of looking through all the items, or turned away due to fear of looking through all the items 😁

Since the filing overlap for the I-751 and the N-400 is so close (1 year apart) we are going to take the entire 751 package, items after the filing of the 751 (these will also suffice as items for the N-400). The N-400 interview NOA states that if you submitted copies when you filed the N-400 online that you should bring the originals to the interview. @Crazy Cat stated that the IO they had for their combo interview specifically asked for items from the date of filing the ROC to the combo interview, so that's pretty cut and dry there and how we made our decision on what to take. Our local office is the same as Crazy Cats so we were tuned into that statement Crazy Cat made! Items we are taking to the N400 interview : Copy of the entire I-751 package (never know what USCIS has done with your original and it's better to have it and not need it, than to not have it and need it.) This is all in anticipation of having the Combo interview, also there are items inside the I-751 package we can use for the N400 interview too. Copy of the entire N-400 package submitted online (ALL Originals as requested) The N-400 items will also serve as items from ROC filing to N-400 interview. I know its very confusing and a mountain of paperwork, but if its a Combo interview I will be there to help the wife navigate the ROC portion (which is the largest of the packages). The N-400 portion she will be able to manage by herself as it is a much smaller package. Might be overkill some will say, but this is OUR personal choice as I have learned to be prepared with USCIS throughout the years. We started this journey with the kitchen sink with the K1, no need to stop now as we might as well go out with the kitchen sink too! Since this will be our FIRST interview together, if it's a combo, (AOS was waived) we have little to no idea what to expect thus we are going to go armed to the teeth so to speak! Just sharing with you all what we are going to do, we understand to each is own so please respect that as we do!!!

Don't sweat this you got this it'll be a combo I'm sure!

Yeah do that I've seen folks on here do the same thing and once the IO found out the spouse was there it turned into a combo interview. So maybe whoever the interviewee is might be a good idea to lightly drop the hint that the spouse is outside.

OK cool we'll keep an eye out for it if it should arrive. Now I am scrambling to get everything in order for both the ROC and the 400. I've got mountains of papers in two separate boxes I have to organize and then go on my pc to get others to put stuff together to take to the interview. I kept records but they were not kept in order. I got kinda lazy at the stretch line and just threw stuff in the appropriate box. I do not recommend that!

Did they send you an email informing you of your combo? Yeah it just dawned on me about that I posted the date!

It just dawned on me that I could look in the documents section in the online account and get the NOA of the interview date DUH. Interview date is April 11, 2023

Status on my wife's N-400 changed to "Interview Was Scheduled" on March 7th, 2023, we are awaiting the hard copy in the mail to tell us the date and time of the interview. No word on the I-751 still showing that the fingerprints were applied to the case. Hopefully this will be or turn into a combo interview. We will plan as such and take all documents for both forms. I of course will accompany my wife to the N-400 Interview in the hopes that it'll be a combo! I-751 submitted January 6th, 2022 N-400 submitted online January 5th, 2023