Dr_LHA

I'd like to remind people that its the Citizenship that's important, and not your personal vanity. Also, everyone looks bad in passport photos and IDs.

In a previous post, I mentioned the fact that I was getting interviewed in Williamsport, PA instead of Pittsburgh, which struck me as odd. Today I received an email from USCIS explaining that this is part of a new pilot program:

On behalf of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, we would like to inform you that our agency is piloting a new program called Mobile Services. During this program USIS will travel to select locations in order to provide certain services. Locations have been selected for a variety of reasons, including distance from a USCIS facility. The Pittsburgh Field Office will be conducting interviews for naturalization benefits in Williamsport,PA.

Figured I'd post this here just FYI.

Anyone else got an interview in an off-site location?

I think the text is sent when the NOA1 is issued, not when the Lockbox opens the package...

How come I got the text at 3.30am then? Do they really run 24 hours a day?

Although one thing I do note is that my interview is 9 days before "Citizenship Day" (Sept 17th), which in the past is when Oath Ceremonies have been performed in Williamsport, PA. Perhaps this means that they're lining me up to have my Oath Ceremony on that day. Would be nice (and fast!).

I've heard of off-site oaths (in historical locations usually, such as Mount Rushmore or the White House), but not interviews. I don;t suppose it could be a new USCIS office opened there?

Thanks for your reply.

It's not listed as a field office on the USCIS website, and the interview letter still lists Pittsburgh as my Local Office. They do Oath Ceremonies in Williamsport, I've found plenty of references to them on the internet, I've just not found any references to anyone having their interview there. I'm taking the lack of replies to this thread as a sign that it's not that common to have such an off-site interview.

Hi,

Quick question, I took a look at the archives of the forum and didn't see anything obvious:

How normal is it to have your Citizenship interview in a place that is not a USCIS field office? As Pittsburgh is assigned as my local USCIS office, I assumed I'd be traveling there for my N-400 interview, but I just got my interview letter and it says I'm supposed to go to a court house in Williamsport, PA. This is closer to where I live (although it doesn't help much as I'm due to be in Rhode Island that day), but I was surprised as I had not realized that USCIS conducted off-site interviews for N-400.

Does anyone have a similar experience, and are there any consequences of this?

Cheers!

Rest in Peace Kezzie. You were one of the good ones on here. Your wisdom will be missed by all in the VJ community.

Last post!

Cheers for the good wishes everyone.

Indeed, people move on. There will be plenty of others to help you smoke. BTW Lisa, love the Dot avatar.

So good I posted twice.

Don't be silly.

I'm very serious.

If you were serious, you would have been gone half an hour ago.

You know you can't resist it.

Let go and let VJ.

One more night of fun. Its liberating. Then I'm free. Don't you always have sex one last time when you break up?

Don't be silly.

I'm very serious.

Well the other thing is that after a year or so people's questions are really starting to sound, well to be frank, retarded. I don't want to be that person who starts calling people out on their lack of research or reading the FAQs all the time and to be honest answering the same questions 1000 times has got rather tiring. Time for someone else to take over. I'm sure SirLancelot will be happy though.

That and I probably won't have internet in my new life in Nigeria as Natasha Ukwu's lover.

Hi,

Well its been a long time since I got my Green Card, and I feel that I paid my dues here helping people out. It used to be fun, but now I'm more often attacked for giving people advice than I am thanked for it. The adversarial nature of this forum is getting to me, be it AOS or Off-Topic, for a while it was fun to spar, but now its getting boring and I have a life to get on with.

For this reason alone I'm checking out of VJ.

Best wishes to all the good people I've"met online here. Please keep in touch. I won't ask for my user to be deleted so if anyone wants to get hold of me a PM should work. Otherwise good luck everyone with your visas/green cards everyone.

Cheers, I might have some last minute fun, but after tonight, I'm a goner.

Mods, please feel free to move this where ever you like, I don't know where it should go, so I put it here. I guess its a good thing I was never an "Organizer".

Cheers!

I'm curious .... is there a big difference between (your) football and American soccer?

Just wondering as I know that soccer has a growing following among the younger generation. In fact, my two nieces (living in CA) are both active in soccer leagues and they keep my sister & her husband constantly on the run with their games.

The big difference between "our" soccer and American Soccer is that when girls play Soccer in the UK (for example) nobody gives a #######.

I got this too and this is not a scam! I have contacted Natasha and after a few brief emails we are in love! I am leaving my wife and flying over to Nigeria next week. All I need is to raise the $50,000 to help pay for her father's surgery and then we will be married, my wife's life insurance is about $100,000 so that should cover it! I am in love!

Are you nearby the clerk's office that you can obtain a certified copy of it before the interview?

Thanks everyone for the advice/support, I will post the lawyer checklist in a bit. Can I get a certified copy from any clerk's office or does it have to be local to the specific place I was born? I'm from Los Angeles originally but I now live in Northern California.

You'll have to get it from the LA county records's office. Check Google for the various ways of doing this. My wife had to do this a few years ago, and it involved her getting a form notarized, and faxed with a credit card payment (done online IIRC), we got the certificate through FedEx a few days later. My wife is from LA as well BTW.

Agrees with Fuzzness about Beckham he does suck

I'm a Scot as well and I don't even like him

A Scot who doesn't like an England player? Colour me surprised.

This whole "Football"/"Soccer" thing reminds me of back when I lived on the West Coast I was in a bar talking to this guy who was berating "Soccer" for some reason, and I asked him why they call American Football, "Football", if you don't use your feet to kick the ball (that often). His answer was simple and the logic is so flawless that even I to this day can't think of a good response:

'Its called "Football" because the game is played with a Football!'

As for me, I can't get my self to give a ####### about NFL, but I enjoy College Football (especially as I live in a town with a Big Ten team).

BA over United any day.

I fly United all the time (one of the perils of working on money from the Federal Government is that I have to fly a US carrier on business) and they used to be not bad. The service has basically got worse and worse in the last few years though, to the point where their flight stewards are rude, their seats are cramped, their flights are expensive, and you don't get any free alcohol on their transatlantic flights any more or any free food on their internal flights (I took one last week that took 7 1/2 hours, and no free food - OK 2 was on the runway!).

Last time I flew on BA it was much better. Now when I fly to Europe on business I always pick a code share flight, last time I flew to Italy I managed to get a ticket that said "United" but actually got on a Lufthansa airplane, and it was much better.

Basically United have gone to the dogs. The only reason to like United these days is their Economy Plus seating, which I thankfully now get for free as I managed to get Premier status this years as I already few more than 25,000 miles this year on United. Certainly Economy Plus is worth more than their damn useless upgrade coupons that never work because they aggresively sell all the first class seats that are availbale, meaning the upgrades never work and always expire.

You might tell I'm a little pissed off with United right now.

Still they're better than US Airways at least, which is basically the ghetto United.

Many of the items on the appointment list are already contained in your file (if your file was prepared properly). It's confusing to many people but remember - much of the correspondence we receive from DOS are generic. They are designed to accomodate a myriad of situations.

This is true, they may never ask for it in the interview.

That said the one piece of evidence my wife was asked for in our interview was proof her citizenship (we gave them her passport). I don't know how common this is.

Sand, just wait and see. Asking questions here every day will not make your AOS go any faster.

Double post, sorry.

Still living in the UK but will be living in Yucaipa, SoCal - my OH is there right now and hasn't had any luck... he is a man though so maybe he just isn't looking hard enough

Oh you won't have any issue getting Thai Curry paste living there. Just go to Trader Joe's in Redlands (10 miles away). I believe there's even a British Store in Redlands as well, or maybe just an English Pub (there is definitely an English Pub in Redlands, or at least there was 3 years ago when I lived in that neck of the woods). If not there's an English import store in Ontario, which isn't too much farther.

So instead of doing the namecheck during the AOS it will be done beforehand and then you are given clearance to apply for AOS? Am I reading that right?

It would make the most sense from a security perspective to have everyone pass the necessary background checks before they come to the USA on a visa. Of course that would mean that people could be kept apart for years waiting for the checks to clear.