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As others have said, make your best efforts to enter the correct date, but they aren't going to deny you over a small error here.
 
Also, if you had your phone with you, Google Map Location History probably has a record of all your movements, and could be useful for finding out this information:
 
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-do-i-see-my-google-location-history
 
 

Thank you so much everyone. Oath ceremony has been completed. I appreciate you all ❤

In addition to what SusieQQQ has adviced. Also, make sure to record any trips after submitting your N400. You'll be asked at the interview if you've taken additional trips since submitting your application.

No, you just said if you don't remember it ignore it entirely. That is not at all the same thing.
I understand perfectly that telling people nonsense about immigration leads to bad results. Please remember the purpose of this forum is to provide constructive help to people.
 
 

I’m all for being honest! It’s the way to go…I even added a ticket from 2003 and then in 2020 I requested & received the evidence from the court that the ticket had been paid. No issues at all after the application submission and was not even discussed during my interview. So what is there to lose by being honest? 
 
I just don’t think this is what they mean with that particular question. Why?
 
“or offense for which you were NOT arrested”. Is what you did an offense worthy of arrest but you got away with it? Now if you had robbed a bank and was not arrested then you should say “yes” and add details 🤟

Applied April 11, was sworn in on September 9, so just under five months.  It seems incredibly arbitrary how some people seem to get it within five weeks, and some people wait up to two years!  Very unfair.  Anyway, best of luck to all of you that have applied and are waiting, and of course to those of you that took the time to respond in this thread.

It is not the same per embassy. 
 
Kind of low to complain about this free, all-volunteer site not providing you with that level of hand-holding.

Look at Embassy reviews and regional forums, for country specific post NVC information.

"Unless I am missing something it seems Visa Journey really fails to lead people to the ultimate finish line. "
 
Once your interview is scheduled, each consulate has its own SPECIFIC requirements and instructions.  
 
Example: Some consulates deliver the passport to beneficiary.  Some consulates have pickup locations.  

I would not hire an attorney at this point.  The OP can just submit an I-751 with a letter of late filing.  I would not pay an attorney to do this.  I have seen other cases similar to this.  The I-751s I remember were accepted. 

No one here can say if it will be denied.   But "I didn't know I was supposed to" is not a valid reason when it comes to USCIS. You are expected to know what is required, and when.   All you can do now is truthfully explain what happened.  
 
And from now on, own your process by becoming educated on the requirements.  US immigration takes some vigilance and planning.

The probation happens before you become a citizen- that is the good moral character requirement.
 
The only way you can lose your citizenship involuntarily is if they discover your green card or naturalizing was based on fraud and denaturalize you. This seems to still be fairly rare. Even “ramping up” under Trump there were only a couple hundred cases over a few years. Compare to the numbers of naturalization (from a uscis doc in 2019, “Over the last decade, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) welcomed more than 8 million naturalized citizens into our great American family. In fiscal year 2019, we naturalized 843,593 people.”

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/issues/all/featured-issue-denaturalization-efforts-by-uscis
For many years, the DOJ focused its efforts to strip immigrants of their citizenship on suspected war criminals who lied on their immigration paperwork, most notably former Nazis. And, USCIS and DOJ pursued cases as they arose, but not through a coordinated effort. …. According to the New York Times, “denaturalizations have ramped up under the Trump administration: Of the 228 denaturalization cases that the department has filed since 2008, about 40 percent of them were filed since 2017, according to official department numbers.  

When I became a legal resident of Taiwan, I had to get an FBI background check (even after having had a top-secret security clearance for 20 years during my military career) ...which was a few hundred dollars...but I'm sure I would have remembered anything it would have revealed.  

you can obtain one on yourself thru the FBI
for mine to take to Morocco to marry,  i went to our county clerk and paid just $15 to get it from my state
i had an old speeding ticket on there (they are on for life here ) 
Truthfinder on my name has me related to people i don't even know and living in states i didn't live in  so no its not reliable]
and immigration runs full checks so get the same background check they would see 
 
https://osse.dc.gov/page/how-obtain-fbi-identity-history-summary-check-ihsc

This whole "conditional" green card stuff is really starting to make me angry.  We just had to get an appointment for an I-551 stamp in my wife's passport......we have a rock solid case, yet we have been waiting since March of 2019.  This is beyond ridiculous.   My wife has now been in the US since June of 2017.
 
 

To America your certificate will pretty much be your new "birth certificate" in a sense, as to America it doesn't matter what happened before you became a citizen. All that matters is that you're a citizen now and any other potential citizenships will be completely ignored by the US. 
 
You may need your naturalization certificate for situations where someone needs proof of what date you became a citizen (I believe certain job position require this), your passport doesn't have this info. You might also need it to update your info with the SSA in case your had a name change for instance. 
 
If you are a dual citizen, your other country might require to see the Naturalization certificate. Sweden for instance, requires me to show my US naturalization certificate when I renew my Swedish passport. This because Sweden didn't allow dual citizenship until 2001, so now they want to make sure I didn't become a US citizen prior to that and therefore lost my Swedish citizenship. 
 
So the answer is - you may or may not need your certificate for certain things still. It all depends, some never need it again while others (like me) will. 

The petition form is straightforward. I recommend to DIY (Do it yourself) via online filing option: https://www.uscis.gov/i-130
 
File Online

You don't need to bring anything to the interview if you have uploaded it instead (other than the obvious originals such as passports, greencard etc). They also prefer less papers, so uploading is highly recommended. That also gives them a chance to look through all your documents before the actual interview and the chances for an approval on the spot are bigger than if they have to go through a pile of documents after the interview before they can make a decision. 

Very easy to file this online.  The N400 requires little required evidence, but the evidence you need to bring to the interview is a bit more.  One caution about filing online, don’t submit it minutes after your 90 day window opens up, the computer clocks sometime mess up the filing date and it can look like you filed a day early which will result in a major headache.

just to update: i got my naturalization certificate back 9.3.21

Hi everyone! I had my interview yesterday and was told I was approved. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get the oath schedule notice?

I can only assume you didn't believe the good people on the r/immigration sub on Reddit where you asked this questions over 10 times. Was that your "survey of folks"??
 
Good grief. There's a box on the application that you check if your fiancé/fiancée is currently IN THE US.  "If your beneficiary is currently in the United States. complete item numbers 38.a--38.h." 
 
For the final time (please, please), yes, you can do this. Plenty of people on Reddit provided resources AND stories AND already gave you this information. 
 
I'm all for helping people, but you seem unwilling to accept the information you've been given or to read the forms/instructions. Why? 

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

So I've been around here for a while, and my journey finally came to an end today after a 26 month wait!
 
This was my complete timeline from filing I-751 to completing the oath:
 
- Sep 2018: Filed I-751
- Jun 2019: Filed N-400
- Feb 2020: N-400 Interview (Passed tests, but unable to make a decision as I-751 had not been approved)
- Mar 2020: I-751 Approved
- May 2021: Filed AR-11 (But didn't receive a confirmation)
- Jun 2021: Filed second AR-11
- Jun 2021: N-400 Approved (on the same day that they processed the second AR-11)
- Jul 2021: Oath scheduled in the old state, then cancelled
- Aug 2021: Oath scheduled in the new state
- Aug 2021: Oath ceremony completed
 
In the nearly 1.5 year long wait between the interview and approval I did all the usual things, contacted senators, representatives, Ombudsman, sent emails, sent case enquiries, added additional evidence online. My experience of these is that nothing made any difference. Every single response was a generic note that makes me think they didn't even look at my case.
 
What finally got the approval over the line was when I moved to a new state, so my case would have been transferred to a new field office. If I hadn't moved, I could well have still been waiting now.
 
I'll never know the reason for the crazy long delay, but I have two possible theories:
 
1. I had provided a LOT of evidence for the I-751. At the interview, the Officer didn't have the file, but she could see the number of pages on her system, and said something to the effect of "Jeez, how many pages... this is going to take a while". I've since read that the Officer maybe responsible for scanning in the I-751 in a combo interview, so it's possible mine just went to the bottom of her pile because it was going to be annoying/time consuming to scan all my documents in.
 
2. My file just got lost in the Officers office. She had a lot of files stacked up around the place, and maybe my filing the AR-11 forced someone to go find my file.
 
Whatever the cause was, I hope my experience helps others in the same situation in future.
 
Advice I'd give other people in a similar situation:
 
- Try not to stress about it. You can drive yourself crazy obsessing about it. Sit back, and try to relax. I drove myself crazy in the early days, but after 10 months or so of waiting I just kind of accepted that it would be done when it was done, and my anxiety levels got a whole lot better.
 
- Make sure you have accounts setup in both the old and new system, and check them both regularly (some information is only posted in the old, and some only in the new), and set both up to alert you on text and email.
 
- Moving states seemed to be what finally sorted mine. It's extreme but if you're really at your wits end, it might be the answer!
 
That's all I can think of at the moment. Good luck to everyone still on the journey, and I'll check back on the forum occasionally to help out where I can.

 

Just got my certificate back.
So the complete timeline for Routine (regular/standard) processing with standard delivery, applied for both book and card ($140 total + $35 USPS execution fee):
Locator begins with: 75
07/29/21: Applied at USPS Las Vegas Summerlin.
08/12/21: Status "In process".
08/13/21: Money order cashed.
08/24/21: Status "Approved".
08/26/21: Status "Shipped".
08/30/21: Passport book (52 pages) received. Shipped from Little Rock, Arkansas
09/01/21: Passport card received.
09/02/21: Naturalization certificate received.
 
Done!!!