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Congratulations! How wonderful to have oath same day as interview. Which was your field office?

Just reporting from reading May 2025 filer thread - Two additional people who filed on June 4, got interview scheduled end of July. That's 4 cases now of people who filed first week of June and got interview date scheduled within a week of application. Three of those have been confirmed to have submitted under 5 year rule though, so it maybe that would be part of the criteria for such a speedy scheduling of interview. But I am still hoping those of us under 3 year rule don't have to wait too much longer

Here in NH they have a special oath ceremony every year on 4th of July at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth. I assume it is run by the Manchester Field Office. Normally the oath ceremonies are no nonsense business like, but this one (and probably others held on 4th of July across the country) have much more fanfare. The public is also allowed to attend. It's a celebration of the patriotism. I wish I had submitted earlier to have had a chance at that ceremony....

Yeah it's mainly for reaping benefits in their home country. Canadians, for example, are no longer eligible to hold TFSA (tax free savings account) once they become LPR or American citizen. So if they continued to hold that type of account after becoming an LPR, they are representing themselves as a nonresident alien. Same with using Canadian healthcare which is only limited to Canadian residents.

That’s awesome. I was listening to Attorney Jim Hacking’s show earlier today and he also talked about one of his clients who just submitted N400 getting interview notice within 2 weeks of application. May I ask which field office?

Thanks, this is super helpful.

Wow congratulations. How do you know your interview is scheduled if you didn’t get the notice? Asking because the day I submitted (June 5), biometrics was waived and my progress changed to step 3, interview scheduled. But I understands it is not actually scheduled yet, it is waiting to be scheduled. My status still says actively reviewing. Did that status change for you?

You’re right. My bad for not reading it properly.

Considering validity of OP’s marriage for i130 depends on which state OP lives in, it will probably be more relevant in this case.

Well demonstrated. one is allowed to file 90 days early to completing the 3 years of being LPR, PROVIDED one has met ALL other eligibility requirements. One of the requirements is to have lived with their US citizen spouse for over 3 years. If one only started living with spouse only for 2 years and 9 months, they have not met that eligibility criteria and hence cannot qualify for early filing.

This is a very comprehensive answer. I was wondering this for a while as well. My understanding of the law is the same as @OldUser. However, I also understand that many people who come in as CR1/ IR1 and only lived with their spouse for 2 years 9 months, file at the 2 year 9 month mark and successfully get through. So it looks like many officers do take the lenient interpretation. In my opinion if you can afford waiting the additional 3 months, better to do so. In the off chance the stricter interpretation is applied to your case, you save losing the $710 and the several months wait leading up to the denial.

Yeah, most of us will be here for a while. However, there is a decent chance, depending on the service center, that some June 2025 filers will get interview schedule date by early July. That's the trend I am seeing from other monthly thread, a small percentage get processed very quickly. So you never know, you could get lucky

Joining the club I filed online on June 5 under the 3 year rule. i751 already approved. I filed N400 at the 3 year, 4 months mark. Biometrics waived immediately after submitting, and status is now "Interview Scheduled" which I guess means that's the next step. Good luck everyone. Here's to speedy and smooth processing for all.

In the absence of vaccination records, what you need is a titre test which will tell you what vaccines you have been administered. You can use this as proof of vaccinations. If report shows you don’t have any of them, you can arrange to take those. That is what I did coming from Canada. It was covered by provincial healthcare, so didn’t have to pay a dime. Those vaccinations that require multiple doses, proof of first dose is sufficient. My advice would be to take any vaccines that comes up negative on the report even if you don’t need it for immigration, as it would likely be covered by NHS and may not be free / covered by insurance in US. Take the advice of your doctor of course…

When it comes to citizenship the entire immigration journey of the applicant is renewed. So if the person obtained LPR through marriage, they may ask questions about the marriage to verify it was entered in good faith. It’s ok even if the marriage is no more, the check is more for fraud or misrepresentation through the immigration process, which is found, would make someone ineligible for citizenship even under the 5 year rule.

Yes

Please refer to my response from earlier. It answers this.

Do you have a valid Canadian PR card? Safest to use that plus Indian passport to travel to Canada. LPRs are technically allowed to travel to Canada without a visa to Canada, but there is a slight chance the airline would want to see a PR card for a Canadian PR. Otherwise your plan is fine. Your Indian passport wont be stamped when entering US, so India wouldn’t know that you used it for travel when you surrender it. Besides that there is a grace period of 3 months where you can use your Indian passport after acquiring other citizenship.

Yes I did. This is what I learned: Technically a US border agent could have detained for for not having proper documentation for entry (my conditional greencard was no longer valid as i am not a conditional resident anymore). They could have charged me $700 for not having the new 10 year greencard while still granting me you entry based on 10 year green card approval letter. However in practice, in most cases, they just let you enter. To improve my chances, I chose a friendly, smaller border crossing, and calked them in advance describing my situation and asked if they will allow me to enter with the old green card, extension letter and 10 year green card approval letter. I didn’t face any issues.

Not sure if this post is allowed as it is tangentially related to my US immigration. Please feel free to remove if found to be irrelevant. This is a question to former Indian citizens who moved to US from Canada as greencard holders, gained Canadian citizenship after moving to US, and then surrendered their Indian passports in US through VFS - Could you please advise what the stamp that CGI put in your passport says? I surrendered mine to CGI NY through VFS and they put a stamp that states “as holder acquired USA citizenship.” I of course never claimed this, but this appears to have been done in error by CGI. The word USA is part of the stamp and so it maybe that it is not an error, and they have no other stamp so they put that for everyone. Anyway only realised this error 9 months after I got that stamp. I contacted VFS and they asked to contact CGI NY which I have also done, but a week has passed with no response. Could you please advise what your stamp says? It’s kind of scary because it looks like I claim to be a US citizen. I am also worried about how this will affect my OCI application.

OP, if you end up calling Jim Hacking, please update here when you do. I would love to hear his opinion and watch that particular show when you call.

There was a recent case in Canada where a person who was granted Canadian citizenship and given a Canadian citizenship certificate on the basis of their mother being a Canadian citizen when they were born. 32 years later, IRCC (USCIS’s counterpart in Canada) revoked their citizenship because they realised the mother had not taken her oath before this person was born. Although unlikely, I am worried something similar could happen to OP in the future. The error in both cases is by the body determining citizenship. Yet despite issuing certificate, in that case in Canada, the same issuing body revoked the citizenship status. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7196530 Luckily in the Canadian’s case, all she had to do was reapply for citizenship and it was reinstated. Took a couple of months though.

For sure, yeah. Well, at least the end is in sight. Wish you all the best.

Yes my interview was waived. 40 months is crazy. Have you applied for citizenship?

Yeah they won’t deny entry, but it could be a long wait in secondary and/ or a i193 fine for not showing the correct documentation. Willing to bet, this rarely done though…. I agree, it doesn’t make sense…