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    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

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    My interview at Jacksonville did not go well, the officer was rude, he did not understand why I had lived in 3 states during the past 5 years and also why I had studied and worked in the United Kingdom at Oxford.

    How did the day go?

    I arrived at USCIS Jacksonville at 11:15, the appointment was at 12:30. I wanted to make sure I did not miss the appointment (I feared traffic, a road accident, thunderstorms etc). The door to the building is locked but the nice security guard said I could only come in 10 minutes before, at 12:20. There are no benches to sit on. while waiting, I was practising the 100 questions. I met the lovely Erica from this forum in person. At 12:20, the security guard came out and ordered all the people to sit on the X's outside. I had a hand sanitizer with me, so I was ordered to throw it away far from the building. They let one person in every 5 minutes.

    I was in at 12:29, got the P25 ticket. There is a large waiting room of a capacity of 115 people, but most of the seats are blocked. I was called in at a window at 13:05. I was placed under oath. The officer was older and skinny. He spent the first 10 minutes looking through every page of my passports (the new one and the expired one), which was so weird. Then the civics questions asked were:

    1. What is the supreme law of the land?
    2. When was the Constitution written?
    3. When do we celebrate Independence Day?
    4. What are two liberties in the Declaration of Independence?
    5. What are the two major parties in the US?
    6. What are two rights all Americans enjoy?

    He spoke softly, he was wearing a mask and was behind a screen. So I asked him to please speak louder.

    The reading question was "Who was George Washington?", which I had to read from a tablet in front of me. The writing question was "George Washington was the first President." I wrote it on the same tablet using a stylet.

    After passing these, the mean interrogation started, asking for all of my past addresses and the dates. When I was replying "October 209", he was saying " I want the specific date". Who remembers specific dates from 12 years ago ?!

    He did not want to see any of my supporting documents, saying that I would have the opportunity
    to submit them when he would send me the request for evidence in 2-3 weeks and that he did not have any more time to spend with me.

    I'm so sad and disappointed, I will not get to vote in November, I can not join the Navy as an officer, my path forward is blocked. All the horror stories I read about USCIS on the forums unfortunately came true for me.

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    3 hours ago, gregcrs2 said:

    So, our notice date is 08/12/2020 and we have an interview scheduled for Sept. 25.  The situation is that we are now overseas and scheduled to return in October.  So we are looking at the cost of changing flights plus we just purchased tickets for another overseas location that we would need to cancel and lose all funds for it.  Being that furloughs appear to be obvious, we are wondering if it would be better to reschedule the interview, as there is a risk it could be cancelled.

    Disregard the financial costs, your US citizenship takes priority over everything else (unless there is a life and death situation). Do everything in your power to be present on September 25.

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by soso723

    I can now see my appointment letter in my Documents tab. It says that "the proceedings will take 2 hours". Is this what is written on any letter or could this mean a same day oath? Also, they want Selective service registration evidence, but up until my 27th birthday I was a non-immigrant on a student F1 visa. I only received the immigrant status 3 years later. Should I upload a letter to my documents stating that?

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Amadia said:

    Randomly decided to check the Processing Times and I see that they seemingly fixed the glitch 👀. 

     

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    My lease here in Jacksonville expires next week. I got ditched at the last minute by my new landlord, who found someone else willing to stay for 2 years. So I have no commitments now. I checked all the processing times after I saw Amadia's post and the fastest field office in the nation is now Albuquerque NM, at between 6.5 and 8.5 months. I filed the N400 7.5 months ago, would this mean that if I moved there, I could get the citizenship within a month?  And if not, I could certainly send an inquiry for outside normal processing time, right? Has anyone had any experience with that field office though?

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, abhatia315 said:

     Unfortunately! its not allowed on anymore! I saw on Indian embassy website, the moment I take oath I am not allowed to travel on India passport anymore. India do not offer dual citizenship and all visa services are suspended for now. so lets see! :) 

    You can postpone your oath until you will have returned from India.

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by soso723

    Dec 14  submitted the N-400 form online from New Jersey, where I was vacationing, that same evening I was back in Las Vegas

    Dec 16 filed the AR-11 form online telling them I was going to be in Jacksonville from then on and I wanted to do the biometrics there

    Dec  22 Despite the change of address, biometrics are still scheduled for Las Vegas for January 6 (my lease in Jax started on Dec 28) 

    Dec 23 I go to the Las Vegas USCIS, show them my Jan 6 appointment letter and the plane tickets to FL for Dec 27and they take me in to do the biometrics

    Dec 27 I move to Jacksonville

    May 15 Eligible for Interview

    July 14 still waiting

    Estimated Case completion time May 2020, 2 months ago

    N-400 Dec 2019 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    I've been waiting in Jacksonville for 7 months for an interview now an no luck yet. Background checks were finished in May. My lease is up in 2 weeks and I can either stay or leave. I was thinking of moving to Buffalo, NY, they have a really fast office there and I hear they do the naturalization oath the same day as the interview. Should I stay or should I go ?!

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