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Hi all, it’s time for thank yous! I had my citizenship interview April 3rd in Portland OR at 730am, was approved and scheduled for same day oath ceremony held at 2pm. 🥳🥳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 thank you 🙏 everyone for sharing on this forum and all the support, it helped my immigration journey immensely ♥️🤍💙 Good luck 🍀 to everyone who is still waiting, wishing you the very best and faster processing times!

Ok folks, this is not a drill, it’s happening 🥳🥳 n400 interview scheduled for April 3rd in Portland

No interview. in fact no communication between biometrics Jan 2022 taken until card approved Feb 2023. Is your wife’s service center LIN? seems there were some recent LIN approvals, so hopefully you guys hear something soon.

Congrats. Did you do anything special, like contacting someone or chat Emma? Same FO for N400 and LIN for I751 as you. Feb 2021 and Feb 2022! I tried 🤣 but for I751 the system wouldn’t let me submit an inquiry at all. For N400 (May 2022), I was able to submit an inquiry but got a generic don’t contact us, we’ll contact you response. Portland doesn’t seem to be moving and I couldn’t find a dedicated N400 page for it on here. I hope we both get interviews soon 🍀

Sorry it’s taking so long. what’s your service center for ROC. mine just got approved a few days ago, I applied July 2021. LIN (Nebraska) service center is super slow. I tried doing a inquiry but the system wouldn’t let it, I kept getting a message that case was under normal processing time 😒 If system allows you, go for it. for N400, my online status had an estimated countdown to decision on case which after it passed the last day gave a “things are taking longer than normal message”. I made an inquiry a couple weeks later to which I received a generic/automated response “ case is being reviewed and if I didn’t hear back in 90days, to make another inquiry” hang in there and good luck

Finally got my GC approved! NOA 7/21/21 Biometrics 1/22/22 Card approved 2/2/23 Card delivered 2/9/23 No interview or RFE LIN service center -yay for movement N400 pending - waiting for interview. Eager to end my immigration journey. good luck 🍀 to everyone still waiting and thanks for the support

LIN I-751 NOA- July 21,2021 no update since fingerprints taken Jan 2022. But @Gaps0214 update makes me hopeful. Hang in there

Crazy drama today, traveling with expired green card and 24mnth extension. Destination Mexico, delta airlines wouldn’t let me checkin and verified at the airport because per agent on phone escalated to “Mexico no longer accepts extension letter for entry of us permanent residents”. My heart sank they told me nearest Mexican consulate would be able to help grant me visa in one day. luckily, I have a valid Canadian visa in my passport. With that visa delta completed the legibility criteria and allowed m to checkin and board. once in Mexico, they just looked at my expired green card and extension letter stamped my passport. Was done with immigration in less than 5 minutes. worked out in the end but just thought I’d caution fellow travelers …now back to the margaritas

Hey @Donda For N400 I received paper copy of biometrics waived as well as an electronic copy a week after submittal. Status is the generic “case is actively being reviewed” since May 15, 2022. However, no transfer. My I-751 is still saying fingerprints taken Jan 21,2022. (LIN /Nebraska service center).

Hey, yes you need the tax transcripts in the initial upload. we included tax transcripts since 2018-to most recent. figured better to front load the application than lessen probability for a RFE. Hope that helps.

I’m LIN victim too , I submitted my N-400 once my eligibility window opened (still waiting). My Local office is Portland, seems to be processing at about the same pace as Seattle. Either way both seem faster than LIN, I figured I’d rather take my chances than wait ~17+ months at best for ROC approval. Check the Seattle N-400 thread on some people have had combo interview for ROC + N-400

So sorry this happened to you. Happened to me as well, we applied for land loan, went through entire process with the bank aware of the expired GC but at the very end the underwriter said he was unfamiliar with the 24mnth extension letter therefore it was not enough proof. 😤 Apply for N400 if you can. Good luck

Hi everyone, joining May filers yay, I submitted online on May 15, got the “we are actively reviewing your case” notification same day. Nothing on biometrics, hope they waive them this time, for my pending ROC I had to go in. They didn’t reuse my AOS ones. Either way, good luck everyone this final leg of our immigration journey.

Sharing my recent international travel experience with the extension letter. I flew to Bahamas on Delta Airlines and returned on American Airlines no issues. Dates: May 3-9, 2022 Airport: Nassau Departure checkin I used my Zimbabwean passport and required Bahamas travel health visa. Had to show return flight info since it was different airline. Arrival to Bahamas: handed immigration officer my passport, he asked if I live in the US and asked for my green card. I handed it to him and immediately explain to him that it was expired but I have the extension letter which I handed to him after the explanation. I notified him I had the related name change documents if he needed them, he politely declined. [Name change document - I changed my name by court order so doesn’t match my GC but reflects on my 18month Extension letter. Marriage certificate- name on marriage certificate matches passport name and explains my married last name on my expired GC] The IO took a bit of a while to process the extension letter, he seemed to debate if he should just enter a new expiration date on the GC or what. So he asked me and I responded extension period was additional 18months since expiration date as stated on the letter. He nodded, logged some information, stamped my passport and we were all good. Returning to US: American Airlines checkin went ok. Then immigration check also was standard for me. Gave the IO my passport, GC and extension letter immediately. Again explained I had the related name change documents if he needed them, he politely declined. The IO was super friendly and chattier than any others I’ve interacted with before. He told me I’d needed secondary inspection and invited my husband to join me if he liked. (First time I’ve had my husband with me for this typically daunting part of my immigration checks) We were led to an office on the side, the vibe wasn’t as tense as JFK secondary inspection room (in any of y’all been in there…story for another time :)). Several officers were at their workstations and all greeted us 🤯The initial IO handed over my documents to a new IO. We were sat about 5-10mins no one talked to us. Then the initial IO came back to get us handed us my documents. Gave us recommendations for things to check out on our next visit back. And we were on our way back home. Arrived in US, no talking to customs or immigration just walked out of airport like a casual domestic flight. 👍 Overall, all was pretty chill. already planning our next vacation, want to get a few more uses out if this extension letter if they going make us wait this long for ROC approval.

Congrats, do you mind telling us which service office please