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I had my interview today.
 
The interview was schedule for 1:55 pm we arrived at just after 1 pm. Last time I was there there was no parking so I made sure i had enough time just in case. Every one was very friendly except the people doing the info pass stuff they seem very "robotic."  I was called right at 1:50 pm, i was sworn in and went  over the application. We had to fix my name due to difference in format from Mexico to United States. I have four names and they had my moms maiden name as part of my last name so that had to be sorted out. I decided to do a name change to make it a bit easier on my self.
 
I applied under the five year rule but we went over my marital information, mostly regarding my wife's ex's. Also why my step-kids were so close in age to me. my wife is older then I so I often find my self explaining to people why i have a granddaughter at 31.
 
I was not asked about the traffic citations but i did bring it up because the dates I had on the application were wrong.  I provided a Deposition as well as a full history of my driving record all showing I had nothing pending.
 
After that I was thrown a curb ball, he said we were going to take a bathroom break before doing the history and English test. I was a bit confused but i followed instructions. I went back to the waiting room were my wife was  puzzled as well.
 
After about five minutes he called me back again and we started with the English test.
 
Read: Where is the white house located? (don't remember the exact wording)
Write: The White House is in Washington D.C.
 
History
 
1. whats an amendment?
2. What is the supreme law of the land?
3. Who did the unites states fight in WWII?
4. Name a state that borders mexico?
5. Name a war fought by the united stats in the 1900s?
6. What is the capital of your state?
 
He then went over then name change again, and had me write it on an iPad with my  finger which was horrible had to re-write it with a stylus but it was not much better. He said it was good enough and moved on. Then sign for the corrections made to the application both name and the dates of the citations.
 
He said he recommended me for approval and i would get my date for oath ceremony with in 30 days.
 
It seem very fast, like many others it was three hour drive each way for half an hour of interview. 
 

I checked in for a couple days where it said no appts available, then finally it opened some up so I scheduled one for a couple weeks away. I'm not sure if there's actually much method to the timing, but I found it was good to check really early in the morning. 

Many congrats for you.

In 20  years you suddenly decided to vote in one particular election 'by accident'. . .

July 19 2017 in line for interview
June 1, 2018 interview scheduled
July 11, 2018 interview
July 12, ceramony letter mailed
July 20, oath ceramony 
I am so happy to be done with my journey
I wish everybody the best of luck with their journey....🎉🎊😀

Take your oath and apply for US passport, then you still can use your other passport for travelling to Australia.
Getting the US citizenship doesn't mean you have to only use US passport to enter any other countries.
The best you can do is:
- Get you US citizenship on the scheduled time Aug 8th
- Apply for your US Passport.
- Use your US passport to travel out of US.
- Use your Phil passport with Aus visa to enter Australia.
- at the end of your trip to Aus, use the Phil passport to travel out of Aus.
- Finally, use the US passport to enter USA on your coming back trip.
 
I wouldn't recommend for you to reschedule your oath ceremony, you don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow.

For what it's worth, my interview was last week. I had a ticket (neither DUI nor speeding nor running a red light, but a moving violation) within the past year, and the interviewer neither cared about any paperwork about it, nor was my approval delayed - I got an approval indication in my N-652 , and my oath letter in the mail notice the next morning. 

Sorry to tell you this is totally wrong, and that might miss leads others.
US Doesn't requires naturalized citizens to renounce their original citizenship. You only renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, not to your other citizenship.
It's up to you the reschedule your oath ceremony according to what you see is better for you.

Sorry to tell you this is totally wrong, and that might miss leads others.
US Doesn't requires naturalized citizens to renounce their original citizenship. You only renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, not to your other citizenship.
It's up to you the reschedule your oath ceremony according to what you see is better for you.

No, the US doesn't.  The oath requires you to give up your allegiance to all other countries but not your citizenship of that country (the US is neutral on the topic with no official stance).  It's largely a holdover, but what it essentially means is that you will fight for the US rather than your homeland should it ever come to that.  People run into issues if their homeland doesn't recognize dual citizenship which, by the sounds of it, is the case with the Philippines.
 
With all that said, just postpone the oath.  It's not worth stressing about whether a passport will arrive in time (been there) and you're through the worst part and it doesn't sound like another month or so really matters to you and it will give you plenty of time afterwards to sort out the PH side of things.

Sorry to tell you this is totally wrong, and that might miss leads others.
US Doesn't requires naturalized citizens to renounce their original citizenship. You only renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, not to your other citizenship.
It's up to you the reschedule your oath ceremony according to what you see is better for you.

Sorry to tell you this is totally wrong, and that might miss leads others.
US Doesn't requires naturalized citizens to renounce their original citizenship. You only renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, not to your other citizenship.
It's up to you the reschedule your oath ceremony according to what you see is better for you.

that would be a waste of time and resources... but maybe they don't want me to ask for a refund if I never see the card  
(totally kidding). 

Maybe when you hand it over at your oath, they update your ROC receipt number to say 'card has been destroyed' ? :-) 

I'm assuming you will be dual citizen after the oath(Phil-USA), so i dont see any problems if you use you Phil PP+ visa on that to travel to Ausstralia, and when you go back to USA you will use your US PP at POE. In addition, it say 3 weeks but it actually took less time than that. 2 year ago, between the oak and travel time i'm only have 3 weeks. I'm apply for expedite and it only took a week to get PP. It just my opinion because we never know what's going on for tomorrow.

If that was me, i'm still go for oath ceremony and then apply for expedite PP at Agency( people can get their PP in one day). After that, you can use US PP to get out/in USA, and use another PP with the Visa to travel to Australia.

December 2016. It is in the list

Woohoo !  Just got notification that our package has been cleared by the NVC and will be on the way to the embassy. 

I don't know how it is routed...my son lives in Georgia, USA and our case was sent to Potomac.

Wish all of us the best 🙏

I'm two days away from my ceremony. I didn't want to go over the top, but I like to style my attire to the occasion so I bought a stars and stripes themed tie and found a lapel I had from a previous purchase.
 
I'm going to be a citizen of the USA on 4th of July!

Dear all!
 
I became a citizen today! The interview happened at around 9.30 AM (given time was 9 AM) and lasted 5-10 minutes. The interview was pretty uneventful, the officer was extremely trusting. In the civics test, I got the question, "How many Supreme Court justices are there?" and I replied, "That could be a tricky question given that Senior Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy just announced he plans to retire soon, but he hasn't so 9". He enjoyed that answer clearly. Later on he brought up my speeding ticket; I said I resolved that. He said, "I could ask you for proof of that, but I won't even though I'm sure you have those documents." I shook his hands, told him that this was a very proud moment for me, and he saw me out. I came back for the oath ceremony which was held at 3 PM today. It lasted about an hour. Everyone was really happy. There were 20 different nationalities being represented in 29 people there! Only unfortunate part was that I was prepared to apply for a passport but the Mt. Laurel center does not handle that.  
 
Best of luck for your immigration journey!

As I expected, congrats.

It's been a week since I submitted my 2 passport photos yet no update yet so I called USCIS and asked for a L2 officer. The officer told me that as of yesterday, 07/02, my application has been APPROVED and that I am being scheduled for oath taking. He even congratulated me and advised to just wait for the oath taking ceremony letter in the mail. Thank God!

sorry to hear that. one guy in Los Angeles finished everything in 3 months from fingerprint to oath...guess what? he received interview notice right the next day after fingerprint. -(  0 day pending   )-----was this jackpot or lottery something?