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Uscis ombudsman is a separate branch in the department of the Homeland security who helping individuals with their applications if their case take longer than expected. Again they are not part of the USCIS, They are gorvement branch but not USCIS. I can give you a link just copy and paste it . And you can click on submit a case review to them. They helped me really fast in 2016. That's why I trust them enough to help me with this as well. 
 
Link is. https://www.dhs.gov/case-assistance

I attended interview since 9/23 but my status always be "we scheduled your interview". It has never been changed to "attended interview" like you all. 
 
How do you contact Ombudsman? through phone or email? are they different than Congressional Inquiry? My lawyer about to help me draft a letter for congressional inquiry due to it almost hit 4 months with no update since my interview but not sure about Ombudsman like yours if it can be better?

My combo interview was 9/23. 
The officer said it should be within or less than 2 months for a result. 
By end of this week will be exactly 2 months and I still have not heard anything.

The whole process is driving me and my husband crazy now... =.=

So i did my interview today.
I filed my N-400 while I-751 is still pending. My husband and I don’t live together due to he moved a lot with the Navy.
Today we went there with our lawyer who also a Navy spouse like me and was very responsible.
 
My interview time is 12:30pm in Downtown San Diego.
Husband and I got there at 11:15am, waiting outside until the lawyer there at 11:45am and we all in together. 
 
After check in, the security guy advised us go to 4th floor for Front Desk. We hanged the appointment letter to the Front Desk and I saw he took out the 2 big documents for my case we I realized those are all the documents I sent since the beginning of my Temporary Greencard.
 
We were waiting (not a lot of people). I review the civil questions.
 
12:30pm, my name was called. The lawyer and I got in first. She asked if my husband could come with me, the lady she No, just me first. 
My husband and I kissed in front of her for my a good luck before I got in. 
 
I stood up and do an Oath to said I will the Truth. 
 
Then she asked my driver license. I asked if I can give my passport or military ID instead as I took Uber and forgot driver license home. She accepted my passport. Then she said she would do the test first.
 
I passed straight 6 questions:
1. Name one Indian tribe: Cherokee
2. Who is the speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
3. Who is the first President: George Washington
4. Which state is Us Capital: Washington DC
5. Who did we fight in WW2: Japan, Germany, Italy
6. What is one right of US citizen: vote for the Federal election
(this one, at first I said voting; then she didn’t continue, so I thought she wanted more, I said beside voting they also can join a political party, then she give me hint and said, voting for what, I said voting for the federal government, then she said “did you mean the election?”, then i said Yes”. Then she let me pass this question).
 
After civil test, she asked me look at the Tablet’s screen and read: “How many US Senators do we have?”
Then write down on the screen: “The Congress have one-hundred US Senators.” (With 100 spelled out “one-hundred”).
 
Then she said I passed the test and asked me some questions about my background, my jobs, my schools, my husband name, how long we married, any trips I had outside the country, I forgot to report 2 trips so I told her about it. She updated it and let me check and sign if they are correct. 
 
Then she hanged me a letter and said I passed the N-400 test. However a decision cannot be made due to my I-751 has not been approved and I need another separate interview for that one. Since my husband will leave back to his station in Florida tomorrow night so i afraid he cannot attend another day. I asked her when will be that interview, she told me it would be right now, but my lawyer cannot be inside with us due to she doesn’t have a paper from my husband for this interview, she only has the paper for my n-400. So she escorted my lawyer to the waiting room and brought my husband in. 
Now she start asked more questions about our relationship like the beginning like how we met, how long we date before married, who proposed first, who bought the ring, show her my ring (my husband took my hand up to show her as her request), who attended the wedding, what did you do after ceremony, our cellphone numbers, have we ever lived together, etc.
 
Because we honestly said we don’t live together, so all the questions afterward were around the reasons why we didn’t live together, why I didn’t move in with him, my husband said i have my jobs and business here and i have my team and customer bases and do a lot of training so I cannot leave. And due to he moved a lot and some training schools I cannot stay on base with him so I will have no where to stay if I move with him. And he tries to move back San Diego after he get out Navy. 
Then she asked if his family know we got married. He said only his sister but not his parents because he didn’t contact them for years. 
Then I said we Skype with my parents and my husband stay in my aunt and uncle house when he here.
There were actually only 5-6 questions about our relationship but she kept repeating the same question over and over again like 3-4 times and she said she just tried to understand and take carefully notes for review the reason we cannot stay together. 
(i guess one of the reason she repeated many times so see if we messed up our answers because if we lie, we will messed up, but lol, we have nothing to hide, at that time in the room with all her asking fast, I don’t think you even have time to think about the lie to tell... and all we can think of were what truly happened to me and my husband. Even she asked hundred times, we still only can give her those same answers.)
 
Finally she gave up asking us question, lol. I didn’t want just to leave like that, to be honest. So I asked her how long I can have a decision. She said about 2 months, they will let me know whether or not they need more information. We prepared many documents and my husband carry a big bag with many folder inside so i didn’t want them to be wasted. I told her incase she may need more info, I have them here, I want to give to her. She told me she should have a lot of mine before, I said I have more than that, like pictures, she said yes she need pics, give her pics then i said Joint bank, she say yes, then Phone call and text, then my life insurance from my company, my friend’s letter about my relationship, my husband’s letter invite my parents come visit, a receipt he sent cash to my parents, etc. i tried giving her all, but she tried to stop me and said it should be enough. Lol.🤣 seem like she tired of me and wanted to kick us out. Finally she said my decision should not take 2 months, should be less than 2 months. Lol. She just cannot approve now and must have her supervisor review. 
I thanked her before leaving and she started to smile to me. 
We went out. My lawyer was waiting outside for her and suddenly ran back to her room. 
 
Later on we went out of the building. The lawyer told me she forgot her purse inside the room so she went back and had a chance to talk with the lady about my case. My lawyer said the lady seems really like me but she just really cannot approved without her supervisor review the case which is really common nowadays due to the I-751 has been delay for so long and lot of people tried to do combo interview like this together. 
 
Now we are in a waiting game. I got a little frustrated but tried to take it easy as much as I can and I feel proud of my husband because he was so stressful but still comfort me afterward. Lol, he even gave me a back massage right in front of the lady during the interview because he afraid I was so nervous. But even if they ask more evidences later, I really cannot think of what else we can give to them because we gave them all what we have. 
 
So, like my friend always tells me:
”Do your best, trust God for the rest.”
 
Good Luck to everyone.
your experience helped me a lot for this interview. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 

So i did my interview today.
I filed my N-400 while I-751 is still pending. My husband and I don’t live together due to he moved a lot with the Navy.
Today we went there with our lawyer who also a Navy spouse like me and was very responsible.
 
My interview time is 12:30pm in Downtown San Diego.
Husband and I got there at 11:15am, waiting outside until the lawyer there at 11:45am and we all in together. 
 
After check in, the security guy advised us go to 4th floor for Front Desk. We hanged the appointment letter to the Front Desk and I saw he took out the 2 big documents for my case we I realized those are all the documents I sent since the beginning of my Temporary Greencard.
 
We were waiting (not a lot of people). I review the civil questions.
 
12:30pm, my name was called. The lawyer and I got in first. She asked if my husband could come with me, the lady she No, just me first. 
My husband and I kissed in front of her for my a good luck before I got in. 
 
I stood up and do an Oath to said I will the Truth. 
 
Then she asked my driver license. I asked if I can give my passport or military ID instead as I took Uber and forgot driver license home. She accepted my passport. Then she said she would do the test first.
 
I passed straight 6 questions:
1. Name one Indian tribe: Cherokee
2. Who is the speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
3. Who is the first President: George Washington
4. Which state is Us Capital: Washington DC
5. Who did we fight in WW2: Japan, Germany, Italy
6. What is one right of US citizen: vote for the Federal election
(this one, at first I said voting; then she didn’t continue, so I thought she wanted more, I said beside voting they also can join a political party, then she give me hint and said, voting for what, I said voting for the federal government, then she said “did you mean the election?”, then i said Yes”. Then she let me pass this question).
 
After civil test, she asked me look at the Tablet’s screen and read: “How many US Senators do we have?”
Then write down on the screen: “The Congress have one-hundred US Senators.” (With 100 spelled out “one-hundred”).
 
Then she said I passed the test and asked me some questions about my background, my jobs, my schools, my husband name, how long we married, any trips I had outside the country, I forgot to report 2 trips so I told her about it. She updated it and let me check and sign if they are correct. 
 
Then she hanged me a letter and said I passed the N-400 test. However a decision cannot be made due to my I-751 has not been approved and I need another separate interview for that one. Since my husband will leave back to his station in Florida tomorrow night so i afraid he cannot attend another day. I asked her when will be that interview, she told me it would be right now, but my lawyer cannot be inside with us due to she doesn’t have a paper from my husband for this interview, she only has the paper for my n-400. So she escorted my lawyer to the waiting room and brought my husband in. 
Now she start asked more questions about our relationship like the beginning like how we met, how long we date before married, who proposed first, who bought the ring, show her my ring (my husband took my hand up to show her as her request), who attended the wedding, what did you do after ceremony, our cellphone numbers, have we ever lived together, etc.
 
Because we honestly said we don’t live together, so all the questions afterward were around the reasons why we didn’t live together, why I didn’t move in with him, my husband said i have my jobs and business here and i have my team and customer bases and do a lot of training so I cannot leave. And due to he moved a lot and some training schools I cannot stay on base with him so I will have no where to stay if I move with him. And he tries to move back San Diego after he get out Navy. 
Then she asked if his family know we got married. He said only his sister but not his parents because he didn’t contact them for years. 
Then I said we Skype with my parents and my husband stay in my aunt and uncle house when he here.
There were actually only 5-6 questions about our relationship but she kept repeating the same question over and over again like 3-4 times and she said she just tried to understand and take carefully notes for review the reason we cannot stay together. 
(i guess one of the reason she repeated many times so see if we messed up our answers because if we lie, we will messed up, but lol, we have nothing to hide, at that time in the room with all her asking fast, I don’t think you even have time to think about the lie to tell... and all we can think of were what truly happened to me and my husband. Even she asked hundred times, we still only can give her those same answers.)
 
Finally she gave up asking us question, lol. I didn’t want just to leave like that, to be honest. So I asked her how long I can have a decision. She said about 2 months, they will let me know whether or not they need more information. We prepared many documents and my husband carry a big bag with many folder inside so i didn’t want them to be wasted. I told her incase she may need more info, I have them here, I want to give to her. She told me she should have a lot of mine before, I said I have more than that, like pictures, she said yes she need pics, give her pics then i said Joint bank, she say yes, then Phone call and text, then my life insurance from my company, my friend’s letter about my relationship, my husband’s letter invite my parents come visit, a receipt he sent cash to my parents, etc. i tried giving her all, but she tried to stop me and said it should be enough. Lol.🤣 seem like she tired of me and wanted to kick us out. Finally she said my decision should not take 2 months, should be less than 2 months. Lol. She just cannot approve now and must have her supervisor review. 
I thanked her before leaving and she started to smile to me. 
We went out. My lawyer was waiting outside for her and suddenly ran back to her room. 
 
Later on we went out of the building. The lawyer told me she forgot her purse inside the room so she went back and had a chance to talk with the lady about my case. My lawyer said the lady seems really like me but she just really cannot approved without her supervisor review the case which is really common nowadays due to the I-751 has been delay for so long and lot of people tried to do combo interview like this together. 
 
Now we are in a waiting game. I got a little frustrated but tried to take it easy as much as I can and I feel proud of my husband because he was so stressful but still comfort me afterward. Lol, he even gave me a back massage right in front of the lady during the interview because he afraid I was so nervous. But even if they ask more evidences later, I really cannot think of what else we can give to them because we gave them all what we have. 
 
So, like my friend always tells me:
”Do your best, trust God for the rest.”
 
Good Luck to everyone.
your experience helped me a lot for this interview. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 

So i did my interview today.
I filed my N-400 while I-751 is still pending. My husband and I don’t live together due to he moved a lot with the Navy.
Today we went there with our lawyer who also a Navy spouse like me and was very responsible.
 
My interview time is 12:30pm in Downtown San Diego.
Husband and I got there at 11:15am, waiting outside until the lawyer there at 11:45am and we all in together. 
 
After check in, the security guy advised us go to 4th floor for Front Desk. We hanged the appointment letter to the Front Desk and I saw he took out the 2 big documents for my case we I realized those are all the documents I sent since the beginning of my Temporary Greencard.
 
We were waiting (not a lot of people). I review the civil questions.
 
12:30pm, my name was called. The lawyer and I got in first. She asked if my husband could come with me, the lady she No, just me first. 
My husband and I kissed in front of her for my a good luck before I got in. 
 
I stood up and do an Oath to said I will the Truth. 
 
Then she asked my driver license. I asked if I can give my passport or military ID instead as I took Uber and forgot driver license home. She accepted my passport. Then she said she would do the test first.
 
I passed straight 6 questions:
1. Name one Indian tribe: Cherokee
2. Who is the speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
3. Who is the first President: George Washington
4. Which state is Us Capital: Washington DC
5. Who did we fight in WW2: Japan, Germany, Italy
6. What is one right of US citizen: vote for the Federal election
(this one, at first I said voting; then she didn’t continue, so I thought she wanted more, I said beside voting they also can join a political party, then she give me hint and said, voting for what, I said voting for the federal government, then she said “did you mean the election?”, then i said Yes”. Then she let me pass this question).
 
After civil test, she asked me look at the Tablet’s screen and read: “How many US Senators do we have?”
Then write down on the screen: “The Congress have one-hundred US Senators.” (With 100 spelled out “one-hundred”).
 
Then she said I passed the test and asked me some questions about my background, my jobs, my schools, my husband name, how long we married, any trips I had outside the country, I forgot to report 2 trips so I told her about it. She updated it and let me check and sign if they are correct. 
 
Then she hanged me a letter and said I passed the N-400 test. However a decision cannot be made due to my I-751 has not been approved and I need another separate interview for that one. Since my husband will leave back to his station in Florida tomorrow night so i afraid he cannot attend another day. I asked her when will be that interview, she told me it would be right now, but my lawyer cannot be inside with us due to she doesn’t have a paper from my husband for this interview, she only has the paper for my n-400. So she escorted my lawyer to the waiting room and brought my husband in. 
Now she start asked more questions about our relationship like the beginning like how we met, how long we date before married, who proposed first, who bought the ring, show her my ring (my husband took my hand up to show her as her request), who attended the wedding, what did you do after ceremony, our cellphone numbers, have we ever lived together, etc.
 
Because we honestly said we don’t live together, so all the questions afterward were around the reasons why we didn’t live together, why I didn’t move in with him, my husband said i have my jobs and business here and i have my team and customer bases and do a lot of training so I cannot leave. And due to he moved a lot and some training schools I cannot stay on base with him so I will have no where to stay if I move with him. And he tries to move back San Diego after he get out Navy. 
Then she asked if his family know we got married. He said only his sister but not his parents because he didn’t contact them for years. 
Then I said we Skype with my parents and my husband stay in my aunt and uncle house when he here.
There were actually only 5-6 questions about our relationship but she kept repeating the same question over and over again like 3-4 times and she said she just tried to understand and take carefully notes for review the reason we cannot stay together. 
(i guess one of the reason she repeated many times so see if we messed up our answers because if we lie, we will messed up, but lol, we have nothing to hide, at that time in the room with all her asking fast, I don’t think you even have time to think about the lie to tell... and all we can think of were what truly happened to me and my husband. Even she asked hundred times, we still only can give her those same answers.)
 
Finally she gave up asking us question, lol. I didn’t want just to leave like that, to be honest. So I asked her how long I can have a decision. She said about 2 months, they will let me know whether or not they need more information. We prepared many documents and my husband carry a big bag with many folder inside so i didn’t want them to be wasted. I told her incase she may need more info, I have them here, I want to give to her. She told me she should have a lot of mine before, I said I have more than that, like pictures, she said yes she need pics, give her pics then i said Joint bank, she say yes, then Phone call and text, then my life insurance from my company, my friend’s letter about my relationship, my husband’s letter invite my parents come visit, a receipt he sent cash to my parents, etc. i tried giving her all, but she tried to stop me and said it should be enough. Lol.🤣 seem like she tired of me and wanted to kick us out. Finally she said my decision should not take 2 months, should be less than 2 months. Lol. She just cannot approve now and must have her supervisor review. 
I thanked her before leaving and she started to smile to me. 
We went out. My lawyer was waiting outside for her and suddenly ran back to her room. 
 
Later on we went out of the building. The lawyer told me she forgot her purse inside the room so she went back and had a chance to talk with the lady about my case. My lawyer said the lady seems really like me but she just really cannot approved without her supervisor review the case which is really common nowadays due to the I-751 has been delay for so long and lot of people tried to do combo interview like this together. 
 
Now we are in a waiting game. I got a little frustrated but tried to take it easy as much as I can and I feel proud of my husband because he was so stressful but still comfort me afterward. Lol, he even gave me a back massage right in front of the lady during the interview because he afraid I was so nervous. But even if they ask more evidences later, I really cannot think of what else we can give to them because we gave them all what we have. 
 
So, like my friend always tells me:
”Do your best, trust God for the rest.”
 
Good Luck to everyone.
your experience helped me a lot for this interview. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 

My interview will be this coming Monday.
 
I applied under 3 year rule.
 
I wonder have anyone here had a combo interview that they also interview your spouse? If you had, will it be separate interview or you two together?

I think they'll be understandable about the moving a lot due to military service and I don't think it will be a problem if he didn't fly back for the interview due to military. They have a lot of understanding and respect for the people who are serving the country. That's my personal opinion not a professional one

I got a text message last night that my N-400 just got updated.
 
I can't not access to the old website uscis.gov, they come back as error for case status and locked my account.
 
Then I signed in to the new website my.uscis.gov , it show that THEY SCHEDULE MY INTERVIEW 😁
 
Now waiting for a letter coming for the exact date so I can tell my husband fly back home for our interview.
 
 

I got a text message last night that my N-400 just got updated.
 
I can't not access to the old website uscis.gov, they come back as error for case status and locked my account.
 
Then I signed in to the new website my.uscis.gov , it show that THEY SCHEDULE MY INTERVIEW 😁
 
Now waiting for a letter coming for the exact date so I can tell my husband fly back home for our interview.
 
 

Today is a working holiday for all N400 applicants across the nation. May 16 of each year will be called "Decreased Estimated Processing Time Day." 
🤣😂
 
We await USCIS' press release saying it was a glitch; hope not. 😂

wooow !!! 
 
My was from May 2020 (12 months) down to November 2019 (6 months)
 
I hope it is not because of system's issue.. lol
 
But... great news for all of us to start our day !!!!!! 

I did my BioMetric today. (plan to do it earlier last week but I cannot ask for a day off, so I just went today as it showed on my appointment letter)
I just wait for about 10-15 mins and it was very quick. The staffs were very nice in my office (Chula Vista, San Diego - CA)
 
My Estimate time went from June 2020 to April 2020 and now up back to May 2020.
My aunt told me in Santa Ana, CA, most of her friends do N-400 for 7-8 months process (it counts after BioMetric, not the whole process).
But I have seen a lot of us here only 3-4 months (for the whole process), so I hope we could have it faster. 

I guess if they really need you to send more evidences, as my lawyer helped me with the I-485 and I-130 before (I was asked to send more proof after we left the interview room), he told me to send a Power of Attorney, phone calls between us, text message, anything we post on Social Media, etc.
1. We sent Power of Attorney
2. I used Tmobile, so I log in to my Tmobile account and print out the calls and texts activities of everymonth (it shows what time, which date you contact each other). The whole things I print out is almost 200 pages. 
3. Social Media post: my husband not use any Social Media, but I do. And sometimes I post fun stuffs about him online to share with my friends, so I just take screenshots of those posts and print out to send them.
I got my green card 2 weeks later after I sent those to USCIS.
 
I guess, form I-751, they may ask for the same things.

Hey guys
i just recieved an update on my i-751 case
 
I-485 filed september 2015
 i-130 approved may 23rd 2016
Interview june 29nth 2016
Conditional Greencard recieved 1st July 2016
Aplied for Removal of Conditions April 1st 2018(Jointly)
Called for biometrics and seems like they didn’t need them or used the old ones from i-130
Recieved NOA for 12month  extension then 18 months and now my Case status says Case recieved by local office.
 
Anyone recieved similar update? Does this mean a second interview?
Does this mean they started to work on April 2018 cases or is it just a glitch?