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On 1/16/2023 at 4:46 PM, sunshine_84 said:

 

none here. I think May filers have few more months of wait before seeing any update.

Yup that’s what it seems like. We did concurrent filling April 2022. 130,485, 131,765 all pending. 
Got an RFE in October 2022 on 485 about 684 information, which was submitted almost immediately. Since then actively processing, or RFE response received. So perhaps little more wait.

6 hours ago, Stefi said:

My parents I -130's are approved! Its amazing how they were approved the same day, one was processed in California and the other in Texas.   

Good to know n congrats. Ours was filed in April 2022.  Keeping hopes alive.

On 5/18/2022 at 11:05 AM, Cloggie said:

My wife just applied for citizenship. I wonder how long the process takes for April 2022 filers...

 

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This is April 2020 fillers forum. People who filled 25 months ago. 

1 hour ago, abfar said:

Finally done with my citizenship journey.

We had a big naturlization ceremony at the Brooklyn cyclones stadium today. There were about 15-20 Judges present and over 200 new citizens from 60+ countries plus cops in ceremonial uniforms. There was also a high school band and two new citizens selected to speak about their citizenship journey. It was an emotional and heart touching event. They took our green cards before we were let into the stadium seating area. I think there was a TV camera present as well if i'm not wrong.

 

We had to wait from 9 am till 11am while they sat everyone down and prepare. We said the oath of allegiance with right hands raised. The ceremony concluded around 12.45-1PM. Then everyone was asked to collect their naturalization certificates. We also got two tickets each for a cyclones match in coming weeks.

 

Took 2 years since filing but it was worth it in the end. 

 

Here's a photo to preserve this memory.

 

 

 

Congrats 🎉 

2 minutes ago, abfar said:

Thank you. Oath notification letter showed up after a while. its early next month!! Finally so close to complete this loooong  journey.

Prefect gift for EID..

20 minutes ago, abfar said:

I wanted to say thank you! Not sure if coincidence or this actually helped but I sent a request and within minutes my status changed to "placed in line for oath ceremony". 😧 what!!! 
No oath date so far though.

Congrats again.. you will get it soon. 

On 4/2/2022 at 10:28 AM, SimpleLife21 said:

This used to happen several years ago, but it surely does not happen anymore in the COVID19 era. 

Same day oath are getting offered where possible even in COVID era. My wife took oath same day last week after interview in Boston. 

15 hours ago, mthornto88 said:

Yes I agree. During COVID times, no one was allowed upstairs so I missed my wife’s ceremony. I am glad they are letting people back in. 

I am glad I became part of my wife’s journey, she texted me immediately after her interview when she got the word for same day oath. I was already on my way to the JFK building, was able to reach in time. 
The situation was totally different last year when I became citizen n took oath. 
the Boston staff is super cool n helpful, from security officers to various other officers from one department to another. 
Best of luck everyone. 

1 hour ago, abfar said:

 

Thank you for sharing. In my case they told me it'll be in cyclones stadium next month and there'll be media present and up to 2 ppl can come with me but it's so weird. It's been over a week since the call but there are no notices showing even in the online account. Paper mail I understand can take a week to arrive after the digital notice show in the account so I'm worried if it was just a mistake in my call somehow. My case is different as  as I was told a decision could not be made at the interview. this was a month ago. The lady on phone said case was approved though and repeated my home address for me for the oath letter notification I suppose. But still the radio silence is odd.

Try the route of letter not received in mail or non-delivery.  congrats btw. 

https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDNForm.do

14 hours ago, mthornto88 said:

Congratulations!!! Great news. That's awesome they're doing same day ceremonies. That's really helpful for people. 

If I am to judge then people who get AM appointments are perhaps getting same day OATH ceremonies. There was one at 0900, then 1000 n then one at 1100, n all three had people who got interview on the same day n the room had perhaps 12-15 people maximum, socially distanced. Though the room was much large. 
 The best part was that family/friends were allowed to be present, n photos were allowed as well. 

Our journey got completed today in Boston. 

Filled mid April 2020.

Got bio done in Feb 2021. Then nothing for exactly 13 months. Filled FOIA in February 2022, which completed in three weeks.  Received interview notification in early March 2022.

Today was interview, n then was offered same day Oath, which we graciously accepted. Was done n minted as a new n proud US citizen by 10AM.

This forum helped a lot. I wanted to file for FOIA back in November of 2021 but got discouraged by posts on Reddit. But finally reading positive feedback from this forum we applied in February 2022.

So finally after almost two years of wait, here we are.

thank you all. 

Our journey got completed today in Boston. 

Filled mid April 2020.

Got bio done in Feb 2021. Then nothing for exactly 13 months. Filled FOIA in February 2022, which completed in three weeks.  Received interview notification in early March 2022.

Today was interview, n then was offered same day Oath, which we graciously accepted. Was done n minted as a new n proud US citizen by 10AM.

This forum helped a lot. I wanted to file for FOIA back in November of 2021 but got discouraged by posts on Reddit. But finally reading positive feedback from this forum we applied in February 2022.

So finally after almost two years of wait, here we are.

thank you all. 

Our journey got completed today in Boston. 

Filled mid April 2020.

Got bio done in Feb 2021. Then nothing for exactly 13 months. Filled FOIA in February 2022, which completed in three weeks.  Received interview notification in early March 2022.

Today was interview, n then was offered same day Oath, which we graciously accepted. Was done n minted as a new n proud US citizen by 10AM.

This forum helped a lot. I wanted to file for FOIA back in November of 2021 but got discouraged by posts on Reddit. But finally reading positive feedback from this forum we applied in February 2022.

thank you all. 

17 hours ago, boston_immi said:

The one that was same day was at 7:45 am and the officer said the 9am ceremony is full but if he can wait for 10 am he can do today. I am not sure the second one but he said when he walked out the building he got notification of approval and also oath scheduled. So it sounds like either way you should know when it will take place relatively quick.

 

Both interviews were around 10 min and easy. I think naturalization is usally only tough if you have issues since adjustment of status, like divorce of green card sponsor, out of country too long, crimes etc. if you had issues with adjustment of status they may bring it up but I don’t think it will be a problem. If no issues then I think very easy.

Thank you for the detailed answer. 

11 hours ago, abfar said:

I'm not sure I understand this part. Could you please explain why you think the cancellation took place?

Oath ceremony gets scheduled after couple of days or perhaps week after the notice. In some cases, the computer or whatever schedules the ceremony on the same day of notice, which is impossible to attend unless the applicant is right there inside the building. 
 

39 minutes ago, abfar said:

Congratulations. 
Are the interview questions based on multiple choice ie you have to pick correct answer on a screen or you need to verbally answer or type the answer?

Its a test of, comprehension(listening), reading and writing. The test is based on the 100 questions, and gets covered in the listening, reading and writing portions.

Hope this helps.

3 hours ago, keyuree1 said:

Hi peeps! Passed my interview today! Yay! FOIA trick is solid! My nice thick file was in front of the officer! She was training a new officer so I got some insight about why they ask certain things! The only thing she asked for was my passport, green card, and my driving record since I had a couple red light/speeding ticket. Questions:

When is Independence Day?

Who is the Vice President?

Ocean in the east side?

What is an amendment?

Rights from the 1st amendment?

Who is the speaker of the house?

Reading test: who lives in the White House?

Writing: the president lives in the White House.

Field office: Chicago

Time line:

5/25/2020 apply

2/192021 bio reuse

12/12/21 FOIA

1/18/22 interview scheduled

2/28/22 interview

Good luck everybody!

Congrats...

1 hour ago, Kristina B. said:

My status changed to my case being actively reviewed at this time. I also went from the nondescript "It's taking longer than anticipated" to 11 months. Still quiet some time BUT at least it's a time frame to reference.

what was the status before ?

7 hours ago, stformummy said:

Got this email from my local field office, after sending "outside processing time" inquiry.

 

"Our records indicate that your application is in pre-scheduling processing.  You will receive an interview notice at the address on file once this initial processing is complete and an interview is available." 

 

 

Has anyone received this type of message, and what does it mean? 

 

 

General wisdom says that your application is ready to be scheduled for an actual interview. Which may very well mean that back ground checks, file retrieval etc has been completed upto their satisfaction.

this is a good indication in my opinion.

Any Boston filler , specially from the infamous march-may 2020 group got interview recently ?

6 hours ago, Trigmo said:

Hey all

 

With all this talk about filing an FOIA to trigger USCIS to retrieve our A-files, does anyone know what are the contents of this A-file? 
 

I read before that it’s between 140-260 pages. 
 

N400 should be about 20 pages 

then what else? Green card application? Bios? 

 

Does anyone know what’s in it?

Per ,my understanding, its the entire immigration/non-immigration/Alien history, from first visa to the last, even if there was a break in between like when people visit US, and then go back and then get a different or another visa and come back. Anything filled with USCIS gets stored in A-File aka Alien File.

https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/massachusetts-congressional-delegation-urges-national-archives-to-address-growing-backlog-of-immigration-paperwork-delaying-naturalization

7 hours ago, Bob in Boston said:

Where did they do it? US Court house?

Same building, different section  n different floor.

Glad to have found this forum.

April 2020 filler, stuck in the FRC/NARA limbo. Got Bio done in Feb 2021 n since then nothing.
Tried all possible means of service requests, representatives n ombudsman. They all tried to help, but also for the canned messages. 
fingers crossed with FOIA.

initially thought of filling FOIA on Nov 2021 but got discouraged by a post from Reddit. But got the clarity n courage from this forum.

will keep everyone posted. 
thank you