Duncan21

Very nice - congratulations! Similarly, October 13, 2023 - Submitted all documents to NVC via CEAC October 29, 2023 - Submitted additional documents November 7, 2023 - DQ Now just awaiting interview date. I was wondering how backlogged NVC is post-DQ and awaiting interview dates so this gives me some hope. The category for us is IR5 (parents of US citizens).

Hi all...received the NVC welcome email this morning for both parents. Their cases were sent to NVC on July 27, 2023 (12 days ago).

Two I-130s got approved on July 22; received emails on July 27 that both were sent to Department of State (NVC) for visa processing.

Filed I-130 petitions for both parents with Priority Date 8/17/2022. Received two email notifications this morning with subject line "We have taken action on your case". Upon logging into USCIS account: both I-130s were approved yesterday, on 7/22/2023 (notice date).

Hi all...joining this thread....IR5 category here (parents of US citizens).....I-130 NOA date = August 19, 2022. Texas Service Center. Good luck everyone!

Newark is one of the USCIS locations that does same day Oath ceremonies....when we had our interview, there were several oath ceremonies throughout the day.

Hello, yes, your spouse can enter the building. For the waiting room, on the day we had our interview, it was a matter of giving the security guard a rationale for why spouse should be in the waiting room. Our explanation was that there was a good possibility that the interview was a combo (N400/ROC) interview, and spouse would be interviewed as well for the ROC portion. The guard did let both of us in.

Absolutely agree! See timelines in signature

Agree, in this scenario (filed for I-751 and received interview notice for N400 only), everyone should go prepared (ie with spouse) for a combo interview.

Nice! Yes, plan for combo interview with both US citizen and spouse present for interview

Congratulations!

Yes...it's the same one with a raised seal on it

Congratulations! If it helps, this is the process and order of steps we took after N-400 approval with name change last year: 1. Went to NJ MVC and updated Driver's License with Naturalization Certificate and Name Change Court Document. At the time we did this, no appointments were needed for Name Changes and everything was done on the same day, and we were given back all documents 2. Passport application after receipt of Driver's License. Note that we did this first before SSN because we were planning a trip outside the US. If you plan to do SSN first, USCIS advised we wait about 10 days or so since it takes about that time for records to be updated. That is about the same time it takes for new Driver's License to come in the mail anyway. For the passport application, take new Driver's License along with a copy of it, original Naturalization Certificate and also a copy of it (see Department of State website for details here). 3. Once we received back the Naturalization Certificate from Passport Agency, we did the SSN name change. I hope this helps. Good luck!

Congratulations!

I had posted this a few months ago: I field for ROC (I-751) in February 2019 and for N400 in June 2020. I received a notice back in July 2021 for N400 interview, but never received an interview notice for the I-751. Our N400 interview was Friday, September 10 and the officer adjudicated the i-751 at the same time in a combo interview - we went prepared for a combo interview. Both approved, and since Newark, NJ does same day Oath Ceremony, the Certificate of Naturalization was issued on the same day. The i-751 portion took about 5 mins: we were not separated and the officer asked the following in the following order: * to the US citizen spouse: what is your spouse's full name and date of birth? when did you get married? how did you meet your spouse? * to the applicant: what is your spouse's full name and date of birth? We took a lot of additional evidence but was never asked to produce any of it. We believe that it is probably because when giving the officer the original documents (birth certificates, green card, marriage certificate, first child's birth certificate etc), we also handed him the hospital birth records for the birth of our second child less than a month ago. The N400 portion was about 15 mins, and straightforward: the 50 Yes/No questions that are in the application, 6 civics questions and confirming/signing of documents. Good luck to all! See timeline in signature below for details.