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Naturalization, name and gender marker change all done yesterday in Montpelier VT. Woot!

Naturalization, name and gender marker change all done yesterday in Montpelier VT. Woot!

I can't agree with that. I can take an extra few months waiting for my oath, but I haven't seen my family in two years and frankly that's more important to me.

He needs a US passport.

I think you need to go to a passport office (usually a county courthouse or some suchlike) to apply for a kid's passport, rather than the post office.

He becomes a citizen when you do

I think you need to go to a passport office (usually a county courthouse or some suchlike) to apply for a kid's passport, rather than the post office.

I can't agree with that. I can take an extra few months waiting for my oath, but I haven't seen my family in two years and frankly that's more important to me.

When I filed mine online, the estimated case completion time was 18 months.  My application/oath was completed in 96 days.
Most of the wait time depends on the backlog of your field office, and how quickly you clear background checks.

They put us in a ceremony 6 days after we got back. Basically the first one they had after we got back. 

just keep going,  you will be asked for payment

Are you sure it's in NY/NJ?  U.S. Postal Service says it's in Vegas.
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/06/postal-service-misidentifies-statue-liberty-stamp-million-mistake/762306002/
 

CNN

Wanting the president to be presidential and not offend world leaders and other people is not being overly sensitive. Trump has said many lies, he's a very good liar and many of his lies are captured on video and you can clearly see the contradictions. He's also not a good businessman and he has avoided paying his workers. He has said a lot of nonsense such as denying climate change and claiming that vaccines are harmful, he didn't know that he's the president of the Virgin Islands (I think expecting the president to know all the states and territories he governs is not too much). He's also a fraud - Trump University was a scam. 
 
His words resonate with people because he doesn't have a consistent position and changes it based on who he's talking to, quite often touching on people's legitimate concerns. Also, he unites people by finding a common enemy - whether that's illegal immigrants or corporations doing outsourcing, and then offering simple solutions to complex problems. Of course, the fact that he uses outsourcing, too, doesn't matter for his base because he's very charismatic and a good liar and people just believe him and trust him - it's like a personality cult. 

There are outliers such as yours.
 
I also recently saw someone who did N400 in 90 days, which reminded me that I got my GC in 91 days while it is taking more than that now for just the EAD. My N400 was just shy of a year.
 
President Trump is openly hostile to immigration, unless the immigrant is from Norway or another 'beautiful country.' His inflammatory, hate-filled pronouncements do not help solve any immigration problems. To deny that is to do the ostrich thing--bury one's head in the sand.

Shall I get us back on topic here? Might be an idea. 
 
I filed my application on April 14th, did my biometrics in May, my interview was two Fridays ago, and my naturalization oath is set for August 7th. I'm in Vermont so I'm guessing it's less busy than most though.

Added you.

Your case took two months. Wow that was quick. Congratulations! 

So where do you folks get your supposedly unbiased news?

Neither do I, nor am I an illegal immigrant, yet here we are with 20 months wait time, triple the amount of pending applications just in Texas* because he's directed USCIS/ICE to chase bogeymen rather than doing their job.
 
*Applications pending at the end of 2015: 36,415

Applications pending at the end of 2017: 97,788

I mean, there's dozens of cities with more people than my whole state, so they were probably like OH HEY SOMETHING TO DO! haha. So perhaps there's a bigger backlog elsewhere, but not here I guess.

I called the passport agency, and they were pretty non-committal about getting a passport same day, they said they'd "try to accommodate" me. Just in case, I made an appointment to go to my local USCIS field office on Friday for a little chat. Like you said, I reeeeeeeeeally don't want to reschedule

I mean, there's dozens of cities with more people than my whole state, so they were probably like OH HEY SOMETHING TO DO! haha. So perhaps there's a bigger backlog elsewhere, but not here I guess.

Think of the numbers also how they grew with the President's election. People who were satisfied and happy being GC holders all of a sudden panicked because of the "fear" instilled in them by the media to apply for citizenship. I'm sure that explains a lot of the increase in N400 applications also which, obviously can begin to cause backlog when offices get overwhelmed. Not the entire reason but possibly one factor into it all. 

I mean, there's dozens of cities with more people than my whole state, so they were probably like OH HEY SOMETHING TO DO! haha. So perhaps there's a bigger backlog elsewhere, but not here I guess.