EternalForeigner

6 hours ago, jingo said:

Hi! Yes!!

 

Was approved, here's how it all went:

 

Many congrats.

30 minutes ago, Vuvuzela said:

mine also changed to 12 months from 7 months. 

My green card anniversary is today and it also changed to 12 months from 7 (I’m in Colorado). I know it’s disheartening to see, but at the same time I know it’s anything but an accurate estimate. 

44 minutes ago, MBeen said:

N400 filed March 6, 2021. Received a notification for interview first week of May  and an interview appointment for June 9, 2021 and got approved! 4years of residency. I did not expected it to be that fast. 

Congrats! Which office is it? And do you happen to remember what the last estimated completion time was for your case?

6 hours ago, whirlpool said:

Are you in denver as well?

Do you know what should we bring to an interview? Do we need to bring passport photos?

As far as I know you don’t need to bring photos because they already have your photo through biometrics. You have to bring your green card, tax returns (past three years if your GC was via marriage, five years if it wasn’t through marriage), all your passports old and new, your photo ID/driver’s license, and I think you need to bring your marriage certificate and your children’s birth certificates as well if those apply to you. Can’t recall what else but the N-400 instructions page should tell you what to bring depending on your situation. 

12 hours ago, whirlpool said:

Does Denver office still allow same day oath?

As far as many of the most recent posters have said, they are. At least for now. Don't know if they'll change things since more people are getting vaccinated.

It still says: 

I just logged in and there's nothing new, but it's also not showing the blue bar with the next milestone or the approximate completion time anymore.

3 hours ago, dallasreader said:

Hi everyone. 

My wife successfully obtained a temporary (1 yr) stamp in her green card! So now she can visit family this summer.  On the other hand, we're almost at two years with waiting for the interview, and starting to get a little concerned....

All that aside, I have a non-immigration question; I thought possibly one of you could help.

As an US citizen, what does it look like for travel from US-St.P Summer 2021? I'm having trouble pinning down concrete info. The Embassy says Do Not travel, but doesn't say travel is Restricted. Then I read a blog post that seemed to suggest an actual Ban on US national-Russia travel is currently in place.

Can anyone help clear this up for me or point me to the best source for this info?

 

Thanks. 

There are still flights between Moscow and LA/NY/DC so there are no travel restrictions at all. 

1 minute ago, Ahyhr said:

Sorry, this might be a stupid question but how did you know you were getting mail from USCIS? Thanks! 

If it's the same thing as mine, you can actually get registered with USPS to get emails from them every day where you get sent scanned photos of which pieces of mail you're getting that day.

Now it's showing me an estimate of 9 months after it said December 2021.

45 minutes ago, leymanai said:

Just gave a call to them. Spoke to a very nice officer (I guess N400 applicants get that privilege lol) and she assured me that everything is fine and there was no RFEs sent. But she told me that since I filed early, they have to wait until my third anniversary date to schedule an interview which won’t happen until June. So a note to everyone who used that filing early option: don’t expect your interview notice until your anniversary date.

That’s kind of reassuring. So I’ll have to wait until mid-June in my case lol. 

10 minutes ago, rizvi252 said:

Hi,

 

  Do anyone had any issue filing online. I mean any browser issue(Using Chrome) like files upload. I read people had issues in the past using Chrome, firefox, safari. 

I used Chrome and it worked just fine. No issues.

1 hour ago, DaveNi said:

Hi all,

 

I saw that filers from previous months were using a spreadsheet to track the progress on their applications, so I went ahead and created one for us March 21 filers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DDsG3QoQKJsXbtBVrJu1geP3nk7R49saU4XVYn2Qtr4/edit?usp=sharing

 

Have a great weekend!

 

15 minutes ago, BenjaminKeating said:

Happy to say that I am now a US Citizen!

Interview was at 10:15, security was slow due to the Covid social distancing, once checked in I waited for about 10 minutes and was called in for my interview. They started out with the history questions, I got the first six correct so she moved on to the reading and writing portion. Then the interviewing officer verified my address, phone number, date of birth and social security number. Then we went through the Yes/No questions from the interview. She then told me that I was approved, administered the oath ceremony there and then and handed me a small US flag and my certificate of naturalization.

After applying for a passport and updating all the other fun stuff (driving license, registering to vote etc) the journey with USCIS is over! Very happy!

My timeline for those interested:

2020/11/19 - Filed online (local office is Denver, CO).
2020/11/28 - NOA received in the mail.
2021/01/20 - Biometric reuse letter received in the mail.
2021/04/01 - Interview, Approved, Oath Ceremony and Certificate of Naturalization in hand.

Congrats! I know you've been sweating this for a while. Do you happen to remember roughly which date you got informed about your interview date?

25 minutes ago, Mel1995 said:

Does everyone have a priority date on the receipt notice?

I don't.

1 hour ago, Mrslula said:

Those that applied, have you received any communication besides the receipt and biometrics reuse notice? 
 

 

this is what I saw on the portal this morning. 

I got this same message after the wait time countdown for the mailed receipt ended.

4 minutes ago, jingo said:

What are the next steps after getting the receipt & biometrics notice? Is it just the waiting game now?

As far as I know, the next steps include either requests for further evidence or just getting scheduled an interview appointment.

32 minutes ago, Mel1995 said:

That’s such a relief. Thanks. Good luck.

Best of luck to you, too!

23 minutes ago, Mel1995 said:

In your receipt notice, did they say “ we will schedule you for your biometric appointment”? I’m just wondering if they said so and still sent you a bio reuse.

Thanks

They did, yeah, which I thought was hilarious since they sent me a reuse notice. Very much an automated response.

30 minutes ago, Mel1995 said:

In my receipt notice it says that they will send my bio appointment through mail, does that mean I won’t get a bio reuse notice ? Or does it say that in the initial receipt notice anyway for everyone?

I got a separate notice for biometric reuse, and I got it hours after submitting the N-400. They're both under "Documents."

A great deal of applicants have been getting biometric reuse notices (I applied on March 18th and immediately got one).

8 minutes ago, jingo said:

I couldn't figure that one out either so I clicked I don't have one. I don't think it's a big deal!

Agreed.

1 hour ago, noini89 said:

It was!!

 

The address is 12484 E Weaver Pl, Centennial, CO 80111

Thanks! I thought it might be that office but I wasn't sure.

Congrats and I'm glad the officer came through for you. That sounded so stressful!

Btw, what's the address for the USCIS office where you had the interview and test? @noini89

1 minute ago, SusieQQQ said:

Um, I said my husband had his test in January this year, that was in the pandemic.

Oh, my apologies! I glossed over that detail by accident. Thank you, again.