JenIE

Congrats! I was pleasantly surprised with how quick the passport timeframe is these days, my husband got his in around the same amount of time expediting it and that included the Thanksgiving holiday!

I think when we filled it out we just put the end date on the Sunday and the new job start date stayed the same. No one asked any questions, they are only concerned if there are large gaps. Putting unemployed for 2 days seems silly, but if that option makes you feel better that works too.

Just from reading the threads it always felt like most of the people were doing 3 year. I just saw you asked on the December thread. As an FYI when we applied it initially it said 9 months but obviously didn't take that long.

Tons of people did the 3 year rule. Join the monthly threads for up to date info on timelines. My husband applied under 3 year rule and took the oath 3 1/2 months after applying. Here's this month's thread but there's one for every month. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/815935-n-400-january-2024-filers/

I wasn't in the room but from what he says I think it was pretty much as straightforward as described, with the agent being satisfied with my husband's answers.

I can't help you with tips for not having the I751 yet other than being your spouse with you just in case they decide to do a dual interview. We had already been approved without an interview by the time we applied for the N400 so didn't have to worry about that. But on the USCIS website they have a list of all the questions they might ask you. They ask you a maximum of 10 and you must get 6 right. If you get the first 6 right they don't ask you any more. My husband studied by having me ask him all the questions and anything he didn't get right immediately he put on a list to study. The next times we went through the questions I only asked him the ones he was unsure of and then the day before and morning of I asked him all 100 questions. His interview went very smoothly, the most difficult part was just that it pretty much took the entire day. I wrote about the experience here: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/806429-n-400-august-2023-filers/?do=findComment&comment=10924601

The processing times are meaningless, like all the other ones were. Ours said 9 months when we first submitted.

They don't ask for both the returns and the transcripts though so you're not giving them what they asked for. The instructions say "Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-certified copies of the income tax forms that you and your spouse filed for the past 3 years (or an IRS tax return transcript for the last 3 years)." Uploading all the other types of items you listed is great and more than enough. The whole process of N-400 for us took about 3 1/2 months

You've listed way more than what we sent in and we got approved. Although you're sending tax transcripts so no need to also send the full returns and make the amount of documents to look through needlessly longer for the agent to look through.

Not a big deal and I wouldn't even mention it. My husband didn't remember the exact start date of his first job when he arrived here in 2020 and we couldn't find it in his didn't so we just put down the day we thought it might be. No one asked about it and it didn't occur to us to be worried.

If your I-751 has already been approved, no your husband doesn't need to go. But if it's still pending then you should bring him so they can do the dual interview with him if they need to.

Just created this thread for everyone filing for ROC in September!