STO Overland

Believe it or not, (attached is the evidence) I was able to pull my travel details from the I-94 website up until March of 2020 - the month in which I applied for citizenship. I tried again recently using my UK passport and was unable to replicate this.

Don't let them kid you. They've been doing in person oaths since at least May 2021

https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/citlist.php?cfl=0&op1=3&op2=d&op3=&op4=1&op5=5,10,11&op6=All&op7=Houston TX Stats here for Houston. 3 months is the quickest that I can see, you may be lucky since you applied this year and the office is trying to get through the backload. Personally I applied right at the start of lockdown and waited 14 months for my interview. Friend applied in May 2020 and just got through her oath two weekends ago

Hey Shaawn, This may or may not be relevant to your particular case however some have filed FOIA and believe that this sped up their application. The wife of a close friend submitted in May 2020 (Houston) and had heard nothing then applied for FOIA in Feb this year. She was invited to interview in May and completed oath a couple of weekends back. More news about this issue and possible solution is here..... whether it worked or not, I don't know. The consensus seems to believe that it did. There is also a discussion about it here, posted by Eugene Krivsun - I'm not a member of the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/517983782770173/ Good luck

Don’t worry. Everyday for the month before my interview I went through all 100 questions. It becomes second nature by interview day. There are plenty of YouTube videos going through the questions and the USCIS website has a practice

Hi, there is no multiple choice. Just have to know the answer.

You are correct, it IS playing with people’s lives especially people who are in vulnerable situations. My dad back home regularly gets phone calls asking him to spend money on some elaborate share scheme. I get phone calls all the time from the IRS telling me I’m going to jail if I don’t pay such and such of a fine. Funny how when they call I’m talking to an IRS officer with an Indian accent (I lived in Mumbai for 3 years and the call center behind our apartment was raided by the police as it also facilitated scam calls) to Europe and to the US). good that you came on here to ask before parting with any monies,, good luck on your journey

For me it was the picture taken during my AOS biometric. Made me look 4 years younger

Don't worry about it as others have stated. It will be fine

Good luck with the final piece of your journey

As per the documents checklist, specifically 4. Documents referring to you and your spouse: a. Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children; or b. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-certified copies of the income tax forms that you both filed for the past 3 years; or c. An IRS tax return transcript for the last 3 years. If your tax transcripts lists both you and your spouse over these 3 years then there is no need to supply anything else. If you filed separately such that neither of you are on a tax return together, then I would supply a bank statement from the beginning of year 1, then another for the beginning of year 2 then another for beginning of year 3 and the very latest statement. Sign them if you like but if the documents checklist / application doesn't say to do then why bother?

Our two certificates are completely different; one is typed, one is hand written. The corrected certificate clearly states that this "is a corrected" marriage certificate. We never handed over the correct certificate at any time because it was never asked for at any time. Throughout AOS and N400, we used the original certificate.

Posting for a friend Applied: May 2020 FOIA filed: Feb 2022 Interview: May 2022 Oath: Saturday June 4th 2022

Just a FYI...A friend had their naturalization ceremony yesterday (Saturday). Said there were people there for interviews also.

Congratulations to you! and Well Done to @Mike E

My suggestion is to get yourself a corrected certificate and take it with you to the interview. If you need to, hand it over to the interviewing officer. We had a similar situation where my surname was incorrectly spelled but we didn't notice until after AOS. Our names were written in cursive, hence it was not obvious that one letter of my surname was incorrect. We were married in Belize so it took almost 4 months to get a corrected certificate. Prior to AOS, my wife had used our incorrect certificate for US passport name change and in the UK for registering the birth of our kids with no issue. We weren't given a RFE at any stage of AOS.

Indeed, it would have been faster than 4 weeks but I was settling work affairs in previous country (India) and then flew home to see family over the holiday period before flying on to the US.

If your employer is willing to pay for L1 and has a blanket I-129 petition, it will be the quickest way to get to the US and definitely the quickest to start work. I was able to get a L1 in my passport within 4 weeks of applying (London) and that included Christmas and New Year. At the time of L1 application, I was married to a US citizen (still am) and after 4 years of being here on a L1, we decided to AOS from the L1 based on marriage. There were no issues needing an EAD and AP however I applied for EAD anyway, just in case I lost my job during the AOS process and I continued to travel on my L1 during AOS without fear of "abandoning" the application. The other consideration, if you are on L1, get married and then wait for a couple of years before AOS, you will get the 10 year GC and not need to ROC. Good luck

I was married to a non US citizen (practice spouse), and I am now married to a US citizen so I put in 2.. I googled it Seems everyone has a different opinion and experience Edit: Sorry the OP confused me. - How many times have you been married (including annulled marriages, marriages to other people, and marriages to the same person)? As the applicant, I put 2. - How many times has your current spouse been married (including annulled marriages, marriages to other people, and marriages to the same person)? If your current spouse has been married before, provide the following information about your current spouse's prior spouse: For my spouse, I put 0 as others have stated, you don't include this marriage

I'm curious, is there anything you can do to jog their memory that your application is out there? File N400 for eg.

call her bluff and check in to the battered shelter yourself. Seems you have a valid case of spousal abuse.

How did your interview go?

I've had two speeding tickets in 20 years and listed both in my N400 (yes, even one from 2003). During my interview, they didn't even bother asking about them other than for me to show that I had taken care of them as @Boiler stated. A citation for speeding for N400 purposes is a citation for speeding. Side note: Did you apply in 2019?

Slightly different but the same... When my wife and I were expats working out of Mumbai, we would save our vacations to come to the US where we owned a house right on a beautiful lake where we would spend 5-6 weeks every summer recuperating for another 11 months back in Mumbai. On our first trip we arrived at Detroit POE and handed over 3 US passports (mam and 2 kids) and my British passport. The officer looked at me, then at my wife carrying two small kids and then back to me... - "why are you here?" : Vacation -"where did you fly in from?" : India - "do you intend to go back:" : haha, if they make us we will but hopefully they'll forget and we can stay - of course, I was just trying to be friendly after a 2am flight from Mumbai to Frankfurt, then Frankfurt on to Detroit with a cranky family - He laughed and smiled as he asked "so you own property here?" - oh yeah! right on the lake. We just bought it and hope to come as often as we can. (what a nice guy this is...) - He smiled even more "so you must love to be able stay here" as he motioned for one of his colleagues to escort us back to secondary. One hour, and two grumpy kids and a wife later, I had learned why not to offer more information than was asked.... The UK is similar; when my wife was working there, we flew in from Amsterdam to this small airport in the north of Scotland. The officer looked at my wife's working visa - "how are you enjoying your job?" - great! - Looks at her visa "wow, you've been here 3 years, you lucky girl. How's work? Still doing the same job all this time, it must get boring by now?" (Visa is tied to job title) - oh yes still the same job! - "3 years doing the same job!? Surely they must have given you a pay raise by now" (Visa is also tied to a pay range, get a raise higher than the allowed percentage, must apply for a new visa) anyway...same but different