Decent80

1 minute ago, Vicente20 said:

Miami, Florida. It has been a nightmare and I have no answers from no one... I have escalated the case a couple of times with no luck. 

Are you April 2020 filer? I’m from Seattle field office and got my naturalization done. I thought my field office is one of the slowest so was hoping all April 2020 filers are done with naturalization. 

22 hours ago, millefleur said:

Same here, nothing showed up in Informed Delivery. I saw that image on other days but not on the day it was actually delivered.

 

My package showed up on informed delivery but my wife's package did not show up in informed delivery. So its random, again its USPS

On 9/23/2021 at 11:08 AM, millefleur said:

Just got it yesterday!

 

Strangely, it arrived in a Priority Mail envelope but there was no tracking number...🙄

I received my NC today, finally done with everything. I realize I stressed too much during the process. One of my friend told me couple of years ago to have patience during the immigration process and everything will fall into correct place. I wish I had that patience

On 9/14/2021 at 1:51 PM, millefleur said:

Thanks for that info. Still waiting on the NC here.

Have you received your NC yet? I`m still waiting and its almost 3 weeks now since I received my passport book. 

45 minutes ago, HRQX said:

[Your name] on behalf of [the child's name] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-1-part-b-chapter-2 "A parent may sign a benefit request on behalf of a child who is under 14 years of age."

Thanks for the info. I`ll provide my name.

Folks, I`m also filling n600 for my 10 years old. I just have one questions. I have put my name in preparer section for this application. Not sure what to put in this section, my or his name?

Thanks for the info. I did the same thing. Some parts of this form is confusing. One last question before I submit my application, My son is under 10 years old and I`m filling his N600 application. I put my name in preparer section for this application. Not sure what to put in this section, my or his name?

1 hour ago, SusieQQQ said:

1. Just do a word (or pdf of the word) document and upload it under the additional evidence/other documents section 

2. I think that I what I did too (long time ago now, don’t remember exactly)

3. Yes

Do you have a template for INA320?

On 2/27/2020 at 4:56 PM, SusieQQQ said:

This is not a post to debate whether it's worth applying for a CoC as well as a passport. (I'm - obviously - in the camp who prefers to have both.)

 

I'm posting a brief timeline/experience because I found it quite difficult to find any real life experiences about how long to expect to wait (some people here mentioned applying and waiting but not how long for, even when i asked lol) and i have seen people in some other forums talk about many months or even a year or more; my FO supposedly takes 5.5 -13.5 months to complete N600 processing. My N400 took over a year so imagine my pleasant surprise when i saw today, that just a little over 3 months after applying, the case has been approved - I think (hence the ?? in the title). USCIS case status page says "On February 27, 2020, we approved your Form N-600, Application for Certificate of Citizenship, Receipt Number xxxxxxxxx, and sent you an approval notice."  The myuscis website however says "February 27, 2020/ Interview Scheduled /USCIS has scheduled your interview appointment and will mail you the appointment notice."  I think that I have read before of this "dual outcome" on the different sites for minors and it is usually just the certificate being mailed. So crossing fingers.

 

FYI a brief timeline of this was: 

• applied 15 November, a couple of days after applying for her passport
• applied online and uploaded copies of required documents, same as for her passport application- her birth certificate, my naturalization certificate, marriage certificate, green card. (Because I applied online I only needed copies to upload - the originals had all gone in with the passport application.)
• in addition to those, i uploaded evidence (school record) that showed she was in my physical custody at the time of naturalization (legal custody is presumed due to being married to her father). 
• I had also uploaded a cover letter clarifying that the application was under INA320 (to pre-empt a RFE for unnecessary evidence as I had seen reported a couple of times by others)
• bio notice mailed 30 November. I hadn't been expecting one due to her being under 14, but I guess they need a photo for the certificate? 
• When we later got her passport, I uploaded a copy of that into the application too - around early February
• apparent approval 27 February.

 

So (apart from the money) pretty painless and, for USCIS and our FO in particular, pretty quick.

 

Thank you for sharing your experience. 

I and my wife got our naturalization in August 2021. We all received our U.S passport recently. I`m filling the N600 application for my kids, they both are under 11 years old. I have couple of questions:

1. How do you create cover letter for INA320?

2. For the question, What is your current immigration status?, I have selected 'Other' and mentioned U.S citizen, as my kid received the U.S. Passport. Is this accurate?

3. For question, "Have you been absent from the United States since you first arrived"? We left U.S couple of times to visit home country for a short period. I assume the answer to this question is 'Yes'.

4 minutes ago, Scandi said:

How did it go with your passport btw? I know you said the system had your info wrong, but did the passport have the correct info at least?

So luckily before my application got approved, they updated my last name in their system. when I checked last time before the approval the system was able to show the status using my correct last name and then the following day my application got approved. So I got both my passport book and card with the correct name.

Timeline for my kids passport (expedited service), locator number starts with 79 (Houston, TX):

Passport appl. submitted with USPS: Aug 09

Status changes to In Process: Aug 12

Money order cashed: Aug 12

Status changed to approved on Aug 25

Passport book delivered on Aug 27

Passport card delivered on Sep 02

Original Doc. received on Sep 03

Timeline for my wife's passport(expedited service), locator number starts with 79 (Houston, TX):

Passport appl. submitted with USPS: Aug 09

Status changes to In Process: Aug 12

Money order cashed: Aug 12

Status changed to approved on Aug 25

Passport book delivered on Aug 27

Passport card delivered on Sep 02

Naturalization certificate received on Sep 07

Timeline for my application (expedited service), locator number starts with 79 (Houston, TX):

Passport appl. submitted with USPS: Aug 09

Status changes to In Process: Aug 12

Money order cashed: Aug 12

Status changed to approved on Sep 02

Passport book delivered on Sep 04

Passport card delivered on Sep 08

Naturalization certificate: Waiting

Finally the waiting game is over.

On 9/1/2021 at 10:38 AM, millefleur said:

Hopefully the cards will arrive soon. Unfortunately I don't think there's any way to track it though.

The cards for my family got delivered today. My application is also approved. 

Just now, millefleur said:

I think the processing time for the cards varies. How long have you been waiting?

Received the passport book on 08/27.

5 minutes ago, millefleur said:

No tracking number. Appears as a letter from "US Government Official Mail" in Informed Delivery, here's a picture:

 

I have received the passport book for my family but still have not received the passport card. 

16 hours ago, millefleur said:

Passport card arrived today. Still waiting on naturalization certificate.

Did you get a tracking number for passport card? If not, were you able to see it via informed delivery?

Does anyone know how to update the SSA given that in person services are closed? also, is it required to update SSA in order to get EDL?

Just got the passport book delivered in the mailbox.

Timeline so far for my family (expedited service):

Passport appl. submitted with USPS: Aug 09

Status changes to In Process: Aug 12

Money order cashed: Aug 12

Status changed to approved on Aug 25

Passport book delivered on Aug 27

37 minutes ago, millefleur said:

My husband went to the post office to inquire and they did the GPS coordinates thing and apparently it was delivered to an entirely different street (!!!) but the same house number....

 

I guess they're going to look into this and try to find it. No idea how long this will take. 😵

UPDATE: It was delivered! Whew....going to the post office and talking with people directly really helped! We got the old style passport and my husband is really happy about it, haha.

does the package needs to be signed? Or they just drop it to the entrance?

26 minutes ago, millefleur said:

I tried to submit the Missing Mail form here: https://missingmail.usps.com/

But apparently for express packages you have to wait 7 days first. Just posting this here in case this situation happens to anyone else.

I feel extremely sorry for your situation. I do not know why things can not be smooth when it comes to process. There always has to be some stress

On 8/23/2021 at 10:08 AM, Scandi said:

Another person in this thread had the same issue, turned out they had misspelled his name when they entered his information in the system, that's why he couldn't see his application status (because obviously he tried to see his status using the right spelling).

Same happened with me. My last name is misspelled in the system. I can locate my application now.

28 minutes ago, noname1234 said:

that's less than 6 weeks as stated in the website.

I called customer support and they mentioned if the check is cashed then its very uncommon to not show up the status for the application. My check was cashed on 8/12, so not sure what is going on.

1 hour ago, EternalForeigner said:

Seems like that’s what’s going to happen with me because I didn’t get an email whenever it changed from unavailable to in process. 

50 minutes ago, Decent80 said:

I did not get any email updates as well

Just got the status update with the USPS tracking info.

26 minutes ago, EternalForeigner said:

Seems like that’s what’s going to happen with me because I didn’t get an email whenever it changed from unavailable to in process. 

I did not get any email updates as well

The application for my wife and kids have approved today. The case went to in process on 8/12. I still can not track my application. 

7 minutes ago, noname1234 said:

is border opened?

I think it is open. Reading up more.