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uneventful. the embassy staff (french and spanish, in my case) had knowledge about the extension letter and what to do with it.

3 weeks after the eligibility window opened. it’s primarily because both of us are lazy

sounds like a batch update day in Vermont.

The I-751 status today indicates that the case was transferred to "another office".

Was originally not planning to file for naturalization till the ROC was approved, but after waiting for a year and seeing virtually no movement with the Vermont Service Center, submitted the N-400 application yesterday.

You do not need to. Your Green Card (and by extension your A-number) is the identifier for Global Entry. So I am guessing, when you go to the kiosk and start the entry process, it scans your face, matches it to your A-number and validates the status.

I did go through the Global Entry Lin. The kiosk was using facial recognition.

I have Global Entry and my entry interaction with the immigration officer was about 3 seconds, when getting back into the country. Only the airline agent cared about the extension letter when checking us in/giving us our boarding passes.

are there any downsides in applying for citizenship while an ROC application is in-flight?

The error in my name was fairly minor; they had transposed two letters. In their reply to my request (which I received by email), they said "The error is minor, and the document is still valid". The case status was updated to show the name on the filing was updated.

I had the same thing happen to me. USCIS has an online tool to request corrections on typographic errors https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayTypoForm.do It took USCIS 2 days after I submitted to acknowledge the correction and the case status was updated saying "Name was updated"