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3 hours ago, SemperFi0311 said:

Thank you for your input and congratulations for your husband naturalization! Your husband went to boot camp before the DoD released Its new policy in October 2017. Past that date, it seems that the average wait to ship for boot camp will be a year or +.

Thank you!

I'm sorry to hear that the wait period is that long. They may be doing more detailed security checks then my husband went through or it may be political. I'm not sure.

I have hope that the various parts of the government who are creating these issues for soldiers will get resolved soon.

On 2/23/2018 at 12:09 PM, Mohtaq said:

Here is the background of my situation, which I am seeking help with:

I'm a green card holder who is a soldier with the WI army national guard since 02/11/2016. I got shipped to basic training (fort Jackson,SC) November 2016 where the army assisted me with the application for citizenship and completed all the required paper work, the interview and the test. USCIS told me that I would get naturalized by the end of the training on the family day which would be Jan of 2017. At the end of the training my name didn't get called; because they hadn't complete my background checks as they said. I got shipped again to Fort lee VA, in February 2017 for another military training (AIT) and stayed there through May 2017, and still didn't get naturalized due my background checks not being completed while every body else got naturalized.I finished my training and came back home (WI). Until today my case still pending.My file right now at Milwaukee,WI USCIS field office. why I continue to have a pending case with USCIS for more than 15 months and why they have not been able to be completed, even though it is my understanding that the army is prioritized in this process.??? I have contacted the USCIS for my case many times but they only have one answer "your case is pending due background checks not completed". Also,I went twice to USCIS Milwaukee field office but absolutely they didn't help me at all and they told me to wait, but that's all I have been doing for a year now... "waiting".

congress didn’t help either.

anyone has similar issue?? What should I do ? 

I’m so sick of waiting!

Thank  you 

I may be able to offer some insight 

My husband joined feb 2017 then went through basic/AIT and completed it in August. He was scheduled to receive his citizenship in October but was postponed due to the new army regulations. He had to go through more security checks and get a form signed by an O-6. Today he will be naturalized. 

The USCIS filed officer told us about the form and gave it to us.  It is mandatory to be naturalized because they lo longer except a signature from a lower rank. If you haven't heard about it then I would ask. It took us 2 months to get it signed because my husband's chain of command didn't want to deal with asking a higher up to sign it.

This process took about 7 months to complete for us. 

I may be able to offer some insight even though our situation is a little different.

My husband joined feb 2017 then went through basic/AIT and completed it in August. He was scheduled to receive his citizenship in October but was postponed due to the new army regulations. He had to go through more security checks and get a form signed by an O-6. Today he will be naturalized. 

Based on this time line, it took from November -June for everything to be completed. So about 7 months.

 The stress and agony is rough. We were told by an USCIS  officer 2 months ago that this is all so new and even they don't know what will happen and when. He stated " You just have to be patient". I would add that even-though it is extremely difficult to wait for the government to get it all sorted out, I do believe that is will be taken care of. We just tried to keep positive and we prayed ALOT.

Good Luck and I hope this helps you!

Update on the situation:  After 2 months we got the form signed because his SSG had connections. For some reason his brigade wouldn't send it up the chain of command and we found out that there are other soldiers trying to go through the same process. They are having the same issues because the brigade doesn't recognize that the laws have changed I guess.

In the original post, I was kinda freaking out cause my husband thought his green card was expired but he was mistaken. When I actually looked at it, I couldn't believe it.

Now we are waiting for the next hoop we have to jump. The form was sent to Washington to get approved and we aren't sure what will happen next...

My husband and I are in a difficult situation with the military and the naturalization process.

He enlisted February 2017 and was promised citizenship after basic training. He was supposed to receive it in October but his command wouldn't allow him to travel to Houston for the ceremony and they made him transfer it to our current duty station. Since then, the government has changed regulations which requires an O-6 or above to sign his N-426 form and more department defense checks.

His command is making it impossible to get the form signed. We are trying everything but they won't send it up the chain of command. This has been happening for a month now.

I'm worried because during this time period his conditional green card expired so now we are left without a green card or citizenship. Before it expired I contacted USCIS and they said we didn't need to renew because he had a "change in status". I'm regretting this decision and I don't know what to do?!?!

Please help! Can we try to get a green card now just to feel secure or is there anything we can do?

We can't be the only family in this nightmare.