Kai G. Llewellyn

Had my interview yesterday and passed! Interview wrapped at 12:15 and I went in for the Oath Ceremony at 1pm in the Seattle office. By 1:30pm, I was DONE and am now a freshly minted US Citizen~!

My interview just got scheduled. Nov 19th! Let's goooo!

I have this issue too, I'm going on a trip in early December. But I'm not going to live my life on the whims of the US government. If there's a clash, I'll reschedule. If they deny and I have to refile, so be it. I don't -need- to be a citizen as a LPR status does not expire. But ymmv on your own priorities.

My case is a tad messy, I'm employed in Canada and work remotely and live in the US. I do have a lot of trips entered on the N-400 too, but I'm well within the physical presence requirements (less than 90 days outside over the 3 year period). There was also a name change on my application which I'm trying to cancel as I saw Seattle only do judicial ceremonies once per year. I ended up doing it via the courts instead. However, I haven't really found a good way to tell USCIS of that change. So with all of that I think they're passing over my case for 'easier' cases. At least that's my guess. 😕

Yes, I've got this note too. Seattle FO, seems their processing times dropped from 6 months to 5.5 months. But hey I don't see it haha.

Seattle Field Office here filed under the 3yr rule, nothing yet. I was hopeful that we'd be done and dusted before the election but I think I've given up that hope now. But I'm hopeful I'll get something in December.

Has anyone who filed in the 90 day early filing window had any movement on their case? My 3 year anniversary was Aug 9th, so I'm hoping there'll be some movement from the Seattle office soon.

Joinin' the May filers' club! Filed my N-400 online today, my local office is Seattle! Immediately got biometrics reuse and NOA1. Hoping this won't take too long! It'd be nice to vote in November haha!

Update: Appears to be fixed, I was able to submit the N-400 tonight!

10 Year GC received on Saturday May 11th. Didn't get a tracking number from USCIS until it showed up in Informed Delivery - Just sat on 'Card was produced' until it was finally delivered.

As someone who works in IT it would be exceptionally poor form to start work two days before the maintenance window and for it to be 3 days rather than two hours, buuuut this is USCIS we're talking about haha. My guess is that something did break and they scheduled a maintenance window to fix the underlying broken part of the system but their own change management probably required a 48 hour notice before taking down still-working systems (because it only seems to be application submission, everything else seems to be working).

Someone on Reddit reported that the online I-765 form was giving them the same error, looks like online filing is officially borked right now. I can't find an email address to report this to them, so I just hope they're aware of this. I did call it out on Social Media however.

Yep. 😕

Yes, me too. Guess their system is broken. Whee I deleted my form and recreated it all to find that it wasn't just me.

I think universally at this point it's always best to file N400 to get the I-751 moving along. I see no benefit in waiting on I-751 approval before filing for Natz.

Case approved today, on a Saturday no less! Card's being produced, I was expecting a much longer wait. No interview either, onto the N-400 next month!

Hey all, Just wanted to give y'all an update with my Canadian Citizenship. I applied for Canadian citizenship on June 24th 2021 and became a US LPR on August 9th 2021. Historically, Canada used to require citizenship applicants to intend to live in Canada once granted citizenship, in 2017 this requirement was removed. My application was approved in early June and I was sworn in as a Canadian citizen on June 21st 2022 while being a resident of the US and not of Canada. I strongly recommend that you have an address in Canada where IRCC can send notices and your citizenship certificate (while ceremonies are still online), this could be an address of a trusted friend or family member. As before, there are no issues maintaining PR of both countries so long as you are in compliance with Canada's residency obligation (2 years in Canada for every rolling 5 year period), and the US's requirement to maintain primary domicile in the US. I hope this is useful for Canadian PR's planning to move to the US and want to apply for Canadian citizenship too, as I am aware a few members were planning on doing this.