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As said above dont panic. My N-400 is missing as well and my oath is less than two weeks away. There are probably doing maintenance on the weekend like any other gov site.

4 hours ago, happydoctor said:

Did anyone have issue with using stylus pen in the interview? I just tried at home on my iPad, and I don’t like it all. Can I ask them  to write on a paper with a regular pen instead ? 🙂

Don’t sweat it.

i had mine 2 Fridays ago and I just drew in the pad with my finger. It wasn’t pretty but they just want to make sure you can write correctly and spell sentences.

Dont worry it isn’t a penmanship test

On 4/19/2024 at 4:26 PM, MT2021 said:

Did they schedule for oath ??

Got my Oath schedule today. So 3 days after interview. It’s May 8th.

2 minutes ago, minivatreni said:

How was your interview experience? 

Very good. The lady was extremely nice and easy going. We talked about how she vacationed in my country a few times etc etc and my wife's job(shes a federal agent too) overall it was 10/10.

Had my interview 3 days ago 4/19 and Oath was scheduled this morning for Wed May 8th at 8am. So, 3 days from interview to Oath Scheduled. Thanks to the good Lord!

Had my interview 3 days ago 4/19 and Oath was scheduled this morning for Wed May 8th at 8am. So, 3 days from interview to Oath Scheduled. Thanks to the good Lord!

22 minutes ago, Lanzoni said:

I have received an email this morning notifying me about an action taken on my N-400 case. My interview was scheduled for Wednesday May 8th 2024 at 8:00am am. I applied online on January 31st under 5 years, completed years ago. Field office Houston, TX.

Same deal. Mine took 3 days from interview to oath schdeuled.

1 hour ago, Bethie said:

My husbands interview is in 3 weeks  @ 7:15 AM    was your spouse allowed in with you to wait in the waiting room?

No I was 5 years rule so I went by myself.

5 hours ago, PVR Bound said:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast/passport-agencies/houston.html

 

Details about emergency passports can be found here...

 

Unless it's a life or death emergency that you must travel at the end of May, I wouldn't be postponing my oath as you do not know when the next one that you would be invited to would be. But that's just me...

MY wife would probably divorce me if i asked her to cancel this trip that she has been wanting to go on for years and its our anniversary and everything is already paid for and literally all our family is going already so cancelling is not an option. LOL I am not in a rush I know the IO said to just reschedule people do it all the time if they have to travel she said its pretty common but if i could get a passport in a few days and pay a hundred bucks or two i don't mind just to be done with it.

3 hours ago, MT2021 said:

Did they schedule for oath ??

Nah but I see they are doing it within 30-45 days which would push me right at the edge.

Had interview today and passed here in Houston. Traveling at the end of May to go out of the country (MY WIFE DOES NOT WANT TO CANCEL THIS TRIP). Assuming my Oath is next month, Has anybody successfully taken the Oath and applied for an emergency/urgent passport right after due to already booked traveled plans? If so, could you please explain the process and where I would need to go in order to do this, if this situation comes up.

I would have rescheduling it as a last option as I am ready to be done with this immigration journey!

Thanks

On 1/16/2024 at 1:14 PM, mam521 said:

I naturalized at the end of April last year with required work travel booked before my ceremony was even scheduled.  Attend your ceremony, get your certificate and then when it's within 10 days of travel, call DoS and ask for an emergency appointment.  The caveat here is that you may not get an appointment where you live - you may have to travel within the US for your appointment.  Additionally, you may not get a same day passport.  It's often next day passport, so you have to be prepared to spend 2 days sitting in a passport office.  

 

When you do get your appointment, you will have to provide the passport officer your evidence of travel in addition to your passport application and naturalization certificate.  You will get the naturalization certificate back when you pick up your passport.  Make sure you CHECK the passport for correctness before you leave the building.  Mine had a typo which lead to an additional 3 hours of waiting for a reprint of the passport.  

Were you able to do this locally in Houston? 

1 minute ago, Visitor User said:

Congrats. 

Thanks and congrats to you too!

1 minute ago, happydoctor said:

Congratulations ! Did she asked you about tax scripts? 

Nah i brought a binder with tax transcripts etc and didn't bother to look at anything I brought. She did ask the question do you owe any taxes and of course I said no

Submitted date 1/23/2024

Interview Sceduled 3/14/2024

Interview date 04/19/2024

Well had my interview first thing this am in Houston. Time was 7am but arrived 15 mins before and checked in, did biometrics etc after that. Got called maybe 10 minutes later or so by the IO. She was very very very nice. Did civics test and got all 6 first try, very easy questions. Then the yes no and we chatted a bit. Asked my wife's name, kids name where I live etc. It was very easy going and we joked and laughed a bit about somethings. Approved on the spot.

Waiting for Oath to be scheduled. I informed her that I have traveled plans at the end of May and she said no big deal just reschedule your Oath, they make it easy to do this. 

Overall, 10/10 experience with the office and this officer.

Well had my interview first thing this am. Time was 7am but arrived 15 mins before and checked in, did biometrics etc after that. Got called maybe 10 minutes later or so by the IO. She was very very very nice. Did civics test and got all 6 first try, very easy questions. Then the yes no and we chatted a bit. Asked my my wife's name etc. It was very easy going and we joked and laughed a bit about somethings. Approved on the spot.

Waiting for Oath to be scheduled. I informed her that I have traveled planes at the end of May  and she said no big deal just reschedule your Oath, they make it easy to do this. 

Overall 10/10 experience with the office and this officer.

Good luck fellow Houstonians.

Have my interview in the AM. Do they ask why you want to become a citizen etc? the only thing I can thing of is to say that I want to vote lol

Do they always ask why I want to become a citizen? I mean to Vote would be a reasonable answer? what else can be said for this answer? My interview is tomorrow so i don't need any surprises.

I might be overthinking this but I just came back to the US after spending a few days in my country. My N-400interview is in a few days. Should I upload additional evidence to my profile before the interview stating I was out the country or should I  just bring it up in the interview?

18 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I am of the opinion to bring everything requested in the interview NOA even if it was all uploaded.

 

Good Luck!

Gotcha Thanks !

Hi VJ,

MY interview is coming up in a month so I am trying to gather everything that I need. I was reading N400 instructions regarding tax documents and saw this:

I am filing under 5 year rule:

"Tax Returns and Overdue Taxes. Bring photocopies of income tax returns that you filed with the IRS for the past 5 years, or 3 years if filing for naturalization on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen. Tax returns are not required for every case. However, USCIS strongly encourages you to bring your tax returns; especially if you are filing based on marriage to a U.S. citizen or have traveled outside the United States for a period that lasted 6 months or more. You can request copies of Federal tax documents at your local IRS office or www.irs.gov. You may also bring an original IRS tax transcript listing tax information for the past 5 years (3 years if filing on the basis of marriage to a U.S. citizen). To obtain a free IRS tax transcript, visit www.irs.gov. Select “Tools” and then select “Order a Return or Account Transcript.” For assistance, you can also call the IRS at 1-800-908-9946."

For my N400 app I uploaded the tax returns that you get back form say turbo tax etc and not any transcripts. Do you think this will be suffice? Also I was looking at "return transcripts" on the IRS website and they only give you 3 years of information. The "Account transcripts" give you multiple years" Should I just print out the account transcripts and bring that to my interview ?

Also what all did you guys have to bring to the interview evidence wise besides green card and passport etc. Is there anything in particular that I should bring?

Thank you

Submitted my Application 01/23/2024

Randomly checked my USCIS page and Interview has been Scheduled for 04/19/024.

Submitted my Application 01/23/2024

Randomly checked my USCIS page and Interview has been Scheduled for 04/19/024 here in Houston at 7 in the morning. 

1 hour ago, Visitor User said:

I am guessing you have to say all 3. 

Curious as to what he will say he had to say.

3 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

I see. I could see my unsolicited evidence. Not sure if it took a while to show up or not. But also the officer was able to see it too.

Ok thanks!

I'll give it a day or two

On 1/29/2024 at 9:08 PM, mshan61 said:

Today i had my interview in Houston field office and got approved 

I applied on September 21st online and  and today ( Jan 29th) was my interview ,. I got green card thru employment not marriage

 Interview took around 25 minutes

 

right after going inside the office, had to take oath of  telling truth

after that interview officer verified my name and asked for my passport and green card.

 

After that she started the civics test

 1st question : who wrote declaration of independence

2: name one branch of government

3: who did usa fought with in world war 1

4:   when we celebrate independence

5:   name  highest court in usa

6:  What Do We Show Loyalty to When We Say the Pledge of Allegiance

 

 

after that asked me when i got married

name of wife

my parents are usa citizens or no

how many kids i have 

where do i work and my job title

 

then yes no questions from n400

 

and gave me approval paper 

 

Congrats on your approval! Just curious for question 3 did you only have to say one country or you had to list all three of the countries( German,Japan,Italy)?

5 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

Did you upload a statement? Was it a PDF file?

 

Where did you upload it? There is a tab called "unsolicited evidence". That's where you upload a file. 

 

But also, in my case I just made a comment inside the application itself.

Yes uploaded the statement via unsolicited evidence via pdf but I cannot see the statement under documents. Not sure if it takes a while to show up under my documents or will it even show up at all. Basically just trying to see if it was properly submitted.