Vikingoutwest

2 minutes ago, goodsoohe5919 said:

Merry (almost) christmas everyone!

I'm extremely grateful that I found such an amazing, helpful group of people here. Thanks to everyone who regularly updates and answers questions. 

 

Just an update, 

ever since my interview for N400 on Nov. 5th I haven't received any updates other than the website saying " case was submitted for quality review based on an approval Recommendation" 

 

Still waiting on the Oath date.. but it is the holiday season so I'm trying to be patient 😅

Merry Christmas Goodsoohe5919,

Thank you for being a part of the group! 

Yeah, I bet they have just slowed down even more because of the holidays. It is so hard to be patient, but it will all work out eventually. I hope it will be soon for you! Did you add your info in our tracker? If you would like to, here's the link:-)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0

54 minutes ago, Hydigal said:

Hi @Vikingoutwest I applied from ND and I don’t have any update on my interview yet. My application estimated completion is June 2020 but as per other ND applicants, I might not get my interview notice until August 2020 because ND falls under MN but timeline is lot slower for ND applicants  when compared to MN applicants. Very disappointing but just waiting.

 I am happy to see the progress with other applicants in this forum. Please pray that my application should get processed soon and I realize my dream of becoming a US citizen soon. Thanks!

Hi Hydigal,

Thank you for replying. UGH that is a frustrating timeline! I am sorry it is like that for you! I hope the timeline will be much shorter for you than it says right now! 

59 minutes ago, LisaPHX79 said:

Hi Vikingoutwest,

 

No update for me....mine is showing a completion date of June 2020.....just waiting.....happy for all of you that are at the end of your journey or almost there. 
 

Lisa

Hi LisaPHX79,

Thank you for replying. I am sorry to hear there is no news for you yet:-( I hope your waiting comes to an end soon! 

Hi All,

Since this group only has 8 members left (according to the spreadsheet) who have not yet been scheduled for interviews, @shearar and I were wondering if some of you might have updates you haven't had a chance to post here yet?

Have you guys heard any news?

@HabeshaWife2016

@Hydigal

@sei&jos

@N400NYC

@negrabella04

@LisaPHX79

@nimscj 

@costa85

Here is the link for the group tracker https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0 in case you have any new info 😄

Hoping the best for you all! 

24 minutes ago, shearar said:

awesome numbers !

that means we have only 8 no interview date for them yet
Did you tag them, they might heard something but forgot to come here and update us

and did @chars
end up applying ?

Right!?! I am amazed that our group has had such good fortune so far. 

Yeah, only 8 left on the spreadsheet that haven't gotten interviews scheduled yet. I have not tagged them, but maybe I should do that in a separate post! @chars did apply, got approved, and became a citizen on 10/25 😄 So awesome!  

Latest Stats:

62 filers

54 have had/are scheduled for interviews

42 have become citizens

1 more is scheduled for the oath

This coming week, our group doesn't have anything scheduled. 

I hope we all get letters (interviews or oaths) for Christmas.

I wish everyone Happy Holidays 😄

25 minutes ago, SpeedUp said:

Thanks mixxin! My interview done by 10:15am, just take less than 15 minutes, I remembered There’s some applicants had joined us after their interview before 1:30pm. I’ve seen some asked the officer to be included in the oath taking but the officer refused. We’re 63 oath takers from 24 different countries, thank GOD I’m one of them! Good luck to all and GOD bless all of us. 

Congratulations SpeedUp! So happy for you that you finally got an interview, and then Oath the same day!!! How lucky is that:-D It sounds like a cool ceremony too with so many different countries. Congrats again!

1 minute ago, EA & AM said:

Guys, problem solved with the sheet. I froze the first row, and now I can scroll up and down the entire document.

 

Please confirm it works for you as well 🙂

YAY!!! You are the BEST:-D It works for me now too, thank you!

3 minutes ago, EA & AM said:

 

I get a message saying that the window browser is too small to display all the content. It's like the lateral bar that allows scrolling up and down is gone. I hope it can be solved.

 

 

Yeah, I get that same thing too. I have no expertise on it, so I hope whoever made it can solve it. 😕

6 hours ago, Grumpycatnj said:

the sheet seems empty.. am I  doing something wrong? 

Not sure what is going on with the sheet. I can see it, but only the first 22 rows..can't scroll down, weird. It was working fine yesterday. 

Latest Stats:

62 filers

53 have had/are scheduled for interviews

40 have become citizens

1 more is scheduled for Oath

This coming week our group has 1 interview and 1 oath:-)

@sharin has the interview on 12/17

@EA & AM has the Oath on 12/18

Congratulations everyone!

If any other April filers want to add themselves to this group's tracker, here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0

5 hours ago, Grumpycatnj said:

Got my date!!!! January 29th 2020 at the Newark Office in NJ!!!

im nervous and excited!! It’s been a very long process from the moment I arrived to the State until this point. 
 

I’m prepared! I know My civic questions, gotta make sure all my documents are ready... I’m literally studying the questions once a day so they are organically in my head! 
 

omg!! Pray for me, y’all!! Jan 29th!  And if everything goes well.. I’ll take the Oath the same day as Newark does same day Oaths... 🙏🏻

Can someone link the google sheet so i can update it? Thank you!

Congratulations!! You will do great 😄 And here is the link for the tracker https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0

5 minutes ago, Grumpycatnj said:

Question: how long Does it take from the moment the status change to “we scheduled your interview” until I’m able to see the date on the site? 

For me, it took about a day and a half☺

Hey guys☺just wondering if any of you have gotten scheduled for the oath? I haven't heard anything yet and am getting anxious lol

edited to include NovaSprings!

Latest stats:

62 applicants

51 have had/are scheduled for interviews

36 have become citizens

5 more are scheduled for the oath!

This coming week our group has no interviews, but 4 oaths!

@Natfor2019 has the oath on 12/12

@butalas has the oath on 12/12

@POM has the oath on 12/13

@NovaSprings has the oath on 12/13

CONGRATS you guys:-D 

P.S. If any other 2019 April filers out there would like to join our group tracker, you can fill in your info by following this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0

13 minutes ago, NovaSprings said:

My oath is the 13th in New Orleans 

Oh sorry Nova! Your date wasn't listed on our tracker. I just updated it now:) Congratulations!!

Latest stats:

62 applicants

51 have had/are scheduled for interviews

36 have become citizens

4 more are scheduled for the oath!

This coming week our group has no interviews, but 3 oaths!

@Natfor2019 has the oath on 12/12

@butalas has the oath on 12/12

@POM has the oath on 12/13

CONGRATS you guys:-D 

P.S. If any other 2019 April filers out there would like to join our group tracker, you can fill in your info by following this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19px0T7I0L1r79JhIJJriP1EXI1sO3u1ImNhcP38FETQ/edit#gid=0

1 hour ago, mixxin said:

Had my interview this morning. Got called about 45 min after my scheduled time. Officer only asked for my appointment letter and green card. I submitted all the pertinent docs and some additional evidence online so that could have helped speed things up. Applied via the 3-year marriage rule.  Interview was fast and easy.  Civics questions, bio confirmation and yes/no questions from the application. Upon completion, officer gave me the form which had a checkmark on 'Congratulations, your application has been approved.' Officer said that since it was 11:35a , I missed the cut-off for same-day Oath by 5min I asked if there was any way to squeeze me in and he said sorry that's the policy. Status changed online a couple hours later on the old site to 'We placed you in line for your oath ceremony'. New site has not been updated yet. The stressful part is over. Now it's just a waiting game!

Wow Mixxin! Congratulations on being approved immediately! 😄 I am so sorry to hear you missed the oath by such a short amount of time...but you are right, the hard part is over - now we wait:-) Maybe we will all (Crazely, me and you) get the same date for oath - that would be way cool! I hope it will be speedy! I am in line also, and nothing new has happened yet. Congrats again! 😄

Latest stats

62 applicants

49 have had/are scheduled for interviews

32 have become citizens

2 more are scheduled for their Oath

This week is another awesome one for our group!

5 interviews and an oath!

@zorus40k has an interview today 12/2

@EmsVnt has an interview tomorrow 12/3

@Zmoney has an interview tomorrow 12/3

@POM has an interview 12/4

@NovaSprings has an interview 12/5

@zbd142 has the oath TODAY 12/2

Congratulations everyone:-D Please come share your experiences!

5 hours ago, chars said:

@Vikingoutwest congratulations!!! You made it dear. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thank you, Chars!!! I am so thankful to be safely off the roller coaster 🎢! Looking forward to being scheduled for the ceremony now

30 minutes ago, Crazely said:

I am actually looking around as if I will recognize you 😁... I also have 3 months estimated completion time. If we have the same date of ceremony. We might finally meet. 😊

Hahaha same! 😄 It would be way cool if we end up with the same date. I will just yell out CRAZELY and see who reacts haha (just kidding). In any case, it is just cool to know that someone else from this forum is going through the same thing as you, at the same time:-) 

On 11/25/2019 at 2:31 PM, Ka.bu said:

Hello guys

 

Glad to hear that some you guys got your interviews

I am still waiting for my interview! 

Had a question?

Did anyone submitted a inquiry regarding expired *wait time* or just waited until they notified??

 

Do you guys suggest me to submit a *out normal processing* inquiry or just wait until they notify?

 

The estimated  *wait time* expired on 21st Oct 

 

Thank you guys 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you. You can't inquire about your case until after it is "outside normal processing time", which is different than the estimated time your account shows. Portland has a processing time of 8.5-15 months right now, and you can inquire about your case if you applied prior to September 15, 2018. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

So, you probably just have to try and be patient. My wait time expired on 8/30 and I got the notification about interview being scheduled on 10/17 if that helps at all.

19 hours ago, Crazely said:

Congrats! I was there at the waiting area at exactly 12:50. I was called at 1:20. Im glad everything went well with you. Now its the wait time for our Oathe taking ceremony. Congrats! 🎉🍾 

Thank you, big congrats to you!!! Aw man, we were there during the same time then haha, I bet we even saw each other without realizing:-) Yep, now we wait again...I hope it will be soon for both of us! My online account has an estimated time now of 3 months, but I hope it will be quicker than that *crosses fingers* 🙂

16 hours ago, mixxin said:

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your experience @Vikingoutwest. Looks like the officer didn't request any paperwork besides your green cards?

Thank you:-) The officer didn't request anything other than the green cards, that's right! I offered more papers regarding my previous case, but she said "no thank you, I have them all here", and she didn't ask for passports or anything else. I guess all she was concerned about was that issue with my adjustment of status, weird, but I'll take it:-D 

Congrats Crazely! Here is my experience (I posted this just now in the April filers thread also:

I will outline my experience at the interview yesterday below - it will be a long one - you can skip to the end:-)

My husband and I arrived at the Portland field office at 12.10 yesterday (a half hour before my appointment at 12.40), and get checked through security. I had to give the guard my appointment letter and ID and then put all my stuff (bags, overcoat, random things from my pockets, and my shoes) in bins and go through a metal detector. Pick up all the stuff again, then go check in at the front desk. The front desk took my appointment letter and my green card, checked it against a list on their computer, and then they took my picture, and scan my left and right index fingers. Then they gave me the letter back, with a numbered ticket attached to it, and we were told to go upstairs to the second floor and wait to be called. 

The waiting room is apparently shared for both people waiting to be interviewed, and people waiting for infopass...the only sign posted anywhere there said "for infopass, wait here for your name to be called" - so I was worried I went to the wrong place somehow, but figured out after a bit that officers were coming out from a different hallway and calling people by name to go with them for interviews.

I waited until about 1.10, and was finally called by a friendly female officer. She showed me back to her office, asked me to remain standing and had me swear to tell the truth. After I sat down, she goes "before we even start this, I have to ask you to outline how you obtained this green card". See, I have had a total of two cards. My first one was conditional, and from 2006. In 2007, my husband and I moved back to Denmark for a while. We thought (as it says in the rules) that if you do not apply to remove conditions, and retain your card while living overseas, you automatically lose your residency and will have to reapply if you want to return to the US. In 2009, we returned to the US and reapplied. At first, it got denied - on the grounds that I had residency already! We had to appeal and tell them their own rules about us having abandoned residency in 2007, the appeal was granted and I got my permanent green card in 2010. Now, the officer was telling me this might be a problem, and that they had to make sure my status was adjusted correctly in 2010. I have her the whole timeline and showed proof, and she said we will get back to this, let's do the test. The questions were:

1. What is one promise you make when you become a US citizen?

I said: to defend the Constitution and follow the laws of the US. She looked puzzled, so I added: and to serve in the military if needed. Then she was happy.

2. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

3. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?

4. What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

5. What is the name of the Vice President of the US now?

6. There were 13 original states, name three?

I then had to read: Where is the White House located?

And write: The White House is in Washington, D.C. 

Then she asked some questions from the N400. I can't remember them all, but some were full legal name, prior marriages for both my husband and I (none), if my parents were citizens, current address, any kids, any travels in the last 5 years, if I had been a prostitute, involved with torture, in the military, or if I was in the communist party. Then if I was willing to take the oath and support the Constitution (of course). Then my name and original country and birth date etc popped up on the tablet and I had to sign it was correct. Then I had to sign that I was willing to take the oath. After that she hands me the N652 (interview results), and two boxes are checked.

1. You passed the English test and the U.S. history and government test

2. A decision cannot be made yet about your application.

In my head I was freaking out, but I tried to not show that and calmly just asked her what this meant? She told me that she had to confirm with a senior officer that my status was adjusted correctly in the past, but that she would fight for me (her words 0.o) and push for my approval. She took some copies of my IDs and said that they would contact me by mail.

So, I left the interview pretty deflated and kinda sad. 

5 hours later I got a notification from the case tracker app that I had been put in line to be scheduled for the Oath Ceremony. I was not sure at that point if that meant I was approved for sure now, so I kept checking the uscis account - and finally this morning that account read:

"We approved your application. Your final step to becoming a citizen is to attend your naturalization ceremony. We will mail you a letter when we schedule your naturalization ceremony."

APPROVED!!!!!! 😄