Duncan21

Good. I filed Apr. 8th and your information gives me some hope that I will also get the interview soon. Which field office the interview is going to be, also date of filing just to co-relate and to understand when likely my application will be reviewed. Thanks!
 

Of course! I filed on Feb 12, Newark field office
Sorry I didn't include this previously! It was the heat of the moment hahaha

Thanks! Please update once you complete the interview...

Hello Vjers,
 
Received an email from USCIS today saying an action had been taken on my case.
Happy to announce that my interview has been scheduled for the end of the month. I saw the PDF letter online but am yet to receive it in the mail.
Time to completion bumped from 8 months to 13 months on the online tool. Not that it means anything, but just thought I'd mention it.
One more step toward the end goal.
 
Hang in there those still waiting. Easier said than done, I know. You are all in my prayers!
 
UnaMexicana

We had our interview today at Chicago field office. Got there around 8:37 AM and check in by 8:45 AM and Officer called us by 9:10 AM and Interview done by 9:30 AM. Interview was with both of us together
Only asked us 7 questions
1) was our wedding Religious one?
2) Both our parents and family attend the wedding
3) Any previous marriage
4) how many kids you have?
5) Any kids with any prior relationship?
6)Spouse occupation
7)My occupation
 
Then he went over  the I751 application we filled and just making sure all the info is correct.
 
He asked for 2020 tax return and copy of our son birth Certificate
 
Now status changed to New Card Is Being Produced
 

Yes, spouse attended although we did not receive any interview notice for the i-751 nor did anyone call to let us know it would be a combo interview.  We only received the interview notice for the N400.  We had to convey to the security guard that there is another pending application and our attorney instructed that US citizen spouse also attend.  Once they called our case, the first question the officer asked was "is your spouse here?".  The officer did not separate us and interviewed each of us with the other being present:
Questions to US citizen spouse What is your name and address? What is your spouse's name and date of birth? What is your spouse's occupation and place of employment? When did you get married? How did you meet your spouse? Questions to applicant What is your name and address? What is your spouse's date of birth? Where does your spouse work and what type of work? The officer then said he will adjudicate the i-751 and proceed to the Naturalization application and escorted the US citizen spouse out of the room.  Oath ceremony was about 2 hours after but worth the wait.
 

Yes, spouse attended although we did not receive any interview notice for the i-751 nor did anyone call to let us know it would be a combo interview.  We only received the interview notice for the N400.  We had to convey to the security guard that there is another pending application and our attorney instructed that US citizen spouse also attend.  Once they called our case, the first question the officer asked was "is your spouse here?".  The officer did not separate us and interviewed each of us with the other being present:
Questions to US citizen spouse What is your name and address? What is your spouse's name and date of birth? What is your spouse's occupation and place of employment? When did you get married? How did you meet your spouse? Questions to applicant What is your name and address? What is your spouse's date of birth? Where does your spouse work and what type of work? The officer then said he will adjudicate the i-751 and proceed to the Naturalization application and escorted the US citizen spouse out of the room.  Oath ceremony was about 2 hours after but worth the wait.
 

Good to hear, Duncan21. Congrats. I received my passport today  Feels great.
 

I just checked my passport status today and it is already on its way! I submitted the application on Sept 17. Four weeks is a reasonable turnaround time! Thought I would share this here. I am glad that they have caught up with the summer backup.

From ‘your case is ready to be scheduled for interview,’ on 6/2020, we waited 1 year and 3 months for our Interview to be scheduled. We finally had our interview this past month. We had prepared additional:
 
- Deed and mortgage with both names.
- Tax filing for past 2 years.
- Joint accounts.
- Health insurence.
- Health records.
- Car insurence and home owner insurence.
- 401k accounts with each other as benefitiaries.
- Additional pictures of our recent trips.
 
Our status got approved a month later. Good luck everyone.

Finally… 6 months after the interview being approved I got my notice. My ceremony will be on 10/15/21. I didn’t think I would happen this year. 

Now the only conundrum is… what to wear… lol.
 
 
 

At last at the end of our journey, my wife's both I751 and N400 has been approved (pending oath ceremony)

I did apply as expedited and selected the 2-day delivery.  My locator number starts with 79, which I believe is Houston.

(Cross-posted from the N400 Seattle thread) 
Today was the day!
 
Seattle appointment at 10:15am, delayed slightly by a long and slow queue to get checked in. 
My interview was with a very friendly officer from the Spokane office via an iPad.
In total it took about 20 minutes, and I was approved right there.
 
My questions were (can’t remember the exact order):
Who signs bills in to law? Name a US territory? What party is the President part of? What month do we vote for president? How long do we elect a senator for?  
I had my own USCIS binder of paperwork with me (copies of all my previous filings, plus copies of birth certificates, marriage certificate, and updated bank and mortgage statements), but none were asked for. After the call was done (and I signed the final bit of paper) they took my green card and directed me back to the waiting room, letting me know it would be about an hour’s wait until I could take my oath. 
 
In less than 10 minutes a group of six or eight of us were called in to a room and the officer checked we were all there, reading out our names from the stack of citizen ‘packs’. Then we read out the oath, and were handed our packets! All done!
 
She advised us to get going with our passport applications, as the wait time is like 3+ months right now (I have my appointment booked for tomorrow for some time now) and before I knew it I was back out at my car and on my way home. I registered to vote using the online form right when I got home! 
 
I want to extend a massive thanks to everyone here;  when my dates were months away, it was awesome to follow along with you all as you made your way through the system. I wish everyone else who’s still waiting the very best and know it will all be done in time. 

Some positive info for those of you who are new citizens (Congtats) and need to get your US Passport. My wife submitted her passport application along with her original naturalization certificate😱 for a passport book and card at our local post office on September 10. We chose normal delivery time and was told up to16 weeks😵‍💫. I checked the application status a about a week later after my check was cashed and it showed it was received and was in process. This past weekend, I checked my Informed Mail through USPS and saw that a package or trackable envelope was scheduled to be delivered from the passport/DOS office in Arizona. I assumed they were returning her naturalization certificate which I was relieved because of the value it holds and she needs it to take care of some other business. Today I checked my Informed Mail and saw that a separate envelope was being delivered today from Virginia which is where my passport card came from when I renewed my passport book and card earlier this year. I checked the DOS site this morning and it showed that her passport application had been approved and she should receive her passport book and card by September 29th. Wow 😮!!! So basically, it took 3 weeks for my wife to get her US Passport book and card and not 16 weeks. I am so glad I didn’t waste an extra $60.00 on expedited service. Now we are officially done ✅!!!!

Congratulations!

That is quick - I applied for expedited on September 13 and was told up to 3 months.
 
Please keep us posted as I have similar timeline.

My journey is finally over. I did have same day oath ceremony because my interview was early morning at 8. They do not do same day oath if appointment was later in the day.
Oath happened at 2:00. They started checking people in at 1:30.

Congratulations!  

Hi all...posted this message in a few threads...I field for ROC (I-751) in February 2019 and for N400 in June 2020.  I received a notice back in July for N400 interview, but never received an interview notice for the I-751.  Our N400 interview was this past 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.    

Hi all...posted this message in a few threads...I field for ROC (I-751) in February 2019 and for N400 in June 2020.  I received a notice back in July for N400 interview, but never received an interview notice for the I-751.  Our N400 interview was this past 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.    

Hello MSC filers...I field for ROC (I-751) in February 2019 and for N400 in June 2020.  I received a notice back in July for N400 interview, but never received an interview notice for the I-751.  Our N400 interview was this past 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.                                 
 

Hi All,
 
I had my interview and ceremony today. So I’m officially a citizen and very proud! Thank you all for help and advise on this forum. It was most definitely comforting and helped with the stress to see that we are not alone in this process.
 
About the interview the officer was very kind and approved me quickly. I only had to wait on the oath ceremony for about two hours. Time passed quick as I found some great people to talk with while waiting. Staff overall was very warm and welcoming. My last advise is to no worry to much, I did and it was not necessary.
 
Thank you all, my journey ends here!
 
NJGuy
 

Hi all...posted this message in a few threads...I field for ROC (I-751) in February 2019 and for N400 in June 2020.  I received a notice back in July for N400 interview, but never received an interview notice for the I-751.  Our N400 interview was this past 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.    

Finally, we are done!!!!! My wife Maria took the oath of allegiance on August 24, 2021 in San Francisco, received her Naturalization Certificate and is now a United States Citizen!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo!!!!!
 
We filed my wife's N-400 in June 2020. She was eligible to file for Naturalization in December 2019. She still had not been approved for the I-751 Removal of Conditions which had been filed in December 2018. Shortly after filing the N-400 we received noticed that both cases had been combined and were being transferred to another processing center for completion. While this added more time on to the approval of the I-751, it ultimately was the best decision we could have made. On July 5, 2021 while we were in Juarez, MX attending my stepdaughter's permanent resident interview (which she was  approved that same day)  received a notification that her combo interview had been scheduled for August 3, 2021. We arrived to the SF USCIS office at the scheduled time. I waited outside while my wife went in. Shortly thereafter, my wife texted me to tell me I needed to come inside to go through the ROC interview with her. I went in, took the oath to tell the truth and we were asked some questions to verify our marriage was legit (she came on a K-1 visa in February 2016) and then I was dismissed so that the officer could continue with the Naturalization interview. About 30 minutes later she came out with a blank look on her face. I asked her did everything go okay. She said yes. I asked so are you done. She said I don't know. The officer said everything looks good for an approval but she gave me this sheet which says they are going to review the case. I asked her how did she do on the test. She said I got them all right. She only asked me 6 questions. I asked about the English part.. She said she did fine. As we walked back to the car, we both wondered if we said  or did anything wrong. The officer seemed very pleasant but was also very professional. She told me that the officer corrected a few things on the application that we had listed incorrectly regarding the fact that she had a previous cancelled visa due to overstays in the US under a tourist visa. After beating ourselves up for a few minutes wondering, I concluded that overall, everything was going to be fine because we had done everything right up to that point. They were just dotting the "i's and crossing the "t's" on her very thick immigration file. At that point, we just put it in God's hands. 
On the morning of August 6, I received a text message from USCIS regarding her case decision. Her N-400 was approved!!!!! A few hours later, I received another text message that her I-751 Removal of Conditions was approved as well. This ended a 7+ years long process on the path to Citizenship which was the ultimate ending to our ongoing love story💖😍. 
 
In conclusion, I will say this.... as frustrated as we can get with all of the red tape you have to go through dealing with immigration, the system does work if you follow the instructions, file your applications on time and remain vigilant. I hired an immigration attorney to help with the filing of Maria's K-1 visa and 601/212 waivers which we had to file due to her having a canceled visa. It wasn't cheap but well worth the cost because it was our one shot to get it right the first time. We were successful and she was able come to the US to get married to me and continue our love story. After that, we filed all of the remaining processes ourselves. Here is a list of all of the processes we filed during our journey:
 
I-129f Fiance Visa - February 2014 - Approved April 2014 (Did not attend interview until March 2015 due to unforseen circumstances) Was denied at interview but allowed to file 601 and 212 waivers. 
I-601 Waiver of Inadmissability - June 2015 - Approved December 2015
I-212 Permission to Reapply for Re-entry after Removal - June 2015 - Approved December 2015
I-485 Adustment of Status - June 2016
           I-131 Application for Travel Document (with I-485) -Received August 2015
           I-765 Application for Employment Authorization (with I-485) - Received August 2015
I-90 Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card (due to green card being stolen by a postal employee before it was delivered to our residence.) - March 2016
I 751- Removal of Conditions - December 2018 - Approved August 2021
N-400 Application for Naturalization - June 2020 - Approved August 2021
Oath of Allegiance - August 24, 2021
 
I also filed a 1-130 to bring my wife's daughter (my stepdaughter) who was supposed to come on the K-1 visa as a minor child to the US in  February 2016 but chose to stay behind at that time. In March 2018 that she decided that she wanted to join her mom in the US. In September 2018 the I-130 was filed and was approved in August 2019. After filing all of the appropriate forms to get an interview scheduled in Juarez, MX, the US Consulate closed for non-essential Visa interviews in March 2020 Due to COVID. Her interview was not scheduled until August 2021. She was approved the same day her mom (my wife) was scheduled for her ROC/Citizenship interview. She entered the US on August 7, 2021 and was able to celebrate with her mom in person on August 24 when she received her Naturalization Certificate.