mysticdolphin95

On 7/7/2022 at 3:26 PM, CE and JR said:

Congrats!!!... so your husband got the oat ceremony & citizenship certificate  right there? 

Yes.

17 hours ago, Immi_Matter said:

Congrats! How was the interview? What were the questions like? Did you go with your husband? 

Yes, since this was a combo interview I was required to be there.  We both went back, and the 751 portion of the interview was first - just asked us basic biographical questions, then questions about how we met and the timeline of our relationship.  Then I was asked to leave so she could conduct the N400 portion of the interview; husband said it was easy, he aced the civics questions and the only doc he was asked for was his proof of Selective Service registration.  After that, the officer had me come back into the room so I could see husband take the oath of allegiance.  

Husband had his interview (I751 and N400 combo) today at the Buffalo, NY office - approved and did the oath right afterward.  Feels great to finally be done!

Husband had combo interview today and was approved.  Pretty easy for the I-751 part of the interview - just asked basic info from both of us and our relationship timeline.  Brought a lot of documents but the officer didn't need to see them as she had everything from the N400 as well.

3 hours ago, Sweetyp said:

oh. What is your service center? When did your husband apply for naturalization? Please let me know. 

All can be found in my timeline.

Husband got a letter directly from our field office today (hand-addressed, in fact!) with a notice for his 751 interview - same time as N400, so it will be a combo interview.  Interestingly, nothing has changed in the case online.

23 hours ago, elmers said:

Damn that's so fast. Can't help but be jealous lol but all in all good luck and what an exciting time for you.

Yeah, way faster than I would have guessed.  May actually be a pain - if the office administers the oath the same day, we'll have to try and get husband a passport agency appointment because we've got a trip planned for late June.  No way we'd be able to get it in time even with the "expedited" service!

Husband received his interview date for N400 next month, still nothing from the 751 case.

Husband just received his interview notice for May 16th.  Excited to be done!  His removal of conditions are still pending from January 2021, so I hope that case gets wrapped up before the interview.

3 months since case transfer after N-400 application...nothing yet.  We're going on a trip to the UK in June and it would be great to have everything finished before then, but not holding my breath!  

Received NOA1 dated 1/10/22 today.

1 hour ago, George & Roth said:

And just now we got even better news! Just signed on to post - we have interview scheduled for the N-400! 

 

With your case being transferred I hope you are on the same fast track!

 

 

Wow, that's awesome!  We are in Buffalo which looks to be one of the quicker offices (7-14 months) so fingers crossed...

On 1/11/2022 at 5:45 PM, George & Roth said:

I guess I am first EAC to get approved, since we got the "New Card is being produced today" unless it's cheating because my case was transferred to NBC.

 

BTW, I filed for N-400 on November 16 2021. On the very next day Nov 17th 2021 my I-751 case was transferred to National Benefits Center.  Seems likely that the filing of the N-400 resulted in the I-751 being transferred and finally resulted in the "New card" today. 

 

I'm curious if others are going to see similar results with their I-751 being expedited by the filing of the N-400 or if my case being transferred one day later was coincidence.  

Sure enough, got a notification this morning that the I-751 case has been transferred.  Betting it's going to NBC but will have to wait for notice to see.  Would be fabulous if it got approved soon.

Filed last night.  I-751 still pending after ~12 months.  Buffalo seems to be pretty fast for naturalization so hopefully this is all wrapped up sometime this year!

7 hours ago, vantango said:

Anyone with Vermont center here?

Yep, plenty of us.  You can take a look at the spreadsheet here.  No EAC approvals yet (at least, none reported on the Google Doc).  

Husband just entered N400 territory, we'll file that as soon as the USCIS website is fully operational!  Getting a 500 error when trying to log in, ha.  What else would you expect?

Husband received his 24-month extension this week.

1 minute ago, AlexeiMaughan said:

When did you receive your NOA1 to when you received the biometrics waved? 

18 days, I think - 2/10 NOA1, 2/28 biometrics waived.

Biometrics waived, unsurprisingly.  Nice to not have to make the 2hr drive to our local office.  Makes you wonder why they can't just use the GC fingerprints by default, doesn't seem to be a problem now...guess that would make too much sense!

Just got text, case received by lockbox on 1/11 so took about a month exactly.  Check not cashed yet.  We're at VSC (EAC case #).

On 1/6/2021 at 9:50 PM, Fragger said:

When y’all filled up the i751, did you leave any blank space, I’m a little confused about using none/ n/a / leaving areas blank.

 

ex. USCIS online account number, I don’t think I have one , so I leave it blank

 

same with other names used, physical address, children, interpreter etc.

 

thanks

Check the "Form Details" section, which states: "You must complete all sections of your form.  We may reject your form if you leave a field blank.  Read the form instructions for information on completing fields when your answer is "zero" or "not applicable (N/A)".

So, no, don't leave blank space.

Sent off today for delivery on Friday; filing window opened on the 3rd.  Compared to the K-1 - where I was anxiously waiting for my husband (well, fiancé back then!) to arrive - I hardly put much time into this one!  Even if they send an RFE he'll still be here, which is all that matters to me 😁

Included all the usual stuff, plus we just bought a house so had a few nice documents to add.  Car titles, leases, insurance, bank statements, utilities, etc. etc...we all know the drill.  Hope to get the extension letter by April, ha.  Best of luck to us all.  

2 hours ago, Jake H said:

Hi! We are currently filling out the renewals for the EAD/AP, and question 24 and 25 are:

24 . Immigration Status at Your Last Arrival.

 

25. Immigration Status at Your Last Arrival. Provide the letter and number that correlates with your status when you last entered the United States. 

 

If anyone has filled this out, what did you put? Since we got married, I don't think it's K1, and I don't believe AOS is an immigration status, right? My wife traveled with the AP last fall, so wondering what to put.

 

Thanks in advance.

Look on your last I-94 - it will have a code; officers use several to refer to those entering on AP awaiting AOS.

On 4/9/2019 at 1:35 PM, nazgul said:

Did you ever hear back? The same thing just happened to me. Exactly 1 year later I got a status update that my interview has been scheduled. I just got a text message and online change, no notice via snail mail just yet. Is this some kinda auto thing they're doing or does this really mean something?

 

Anyone else can chime in how long you had to wait from the time you saw the online notice till you actually received the paper notice? How far out was the interview date from receiving the paper notice?

 

Hard to get excited about any of this knowing how tricky the whole process is.

This wasn't from Mpls so take with a grain of salt, but we received our letter about a week(?) after the online notice.  Our interview date was about a month after we got the letter.

Also, they never asked for any birth certificates, so I wouldn't worry about that

On 4/5/2019 at 9:39 AM, dunebuggy said:

@mysticdolphin95where do you see the relative quickness of each office? is that posted somewhere on VJ? Thanks!

Obviously you can look on the USCIS processing times page, but I also searched K1 timelines on VJ of people who had recently adjusted in Buffalo.