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Nothing yet. Two weeks ago, my processing time changed from 1 week to "Your case is taking longer than expected to process" 😞

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

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.   

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.
 
 
 

Try the route of letter not received in mail or non-delivery.  congrats btw. 
https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDNForm.do

Some as late as 2:15 too.... I think 3 is the cutoff.

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. 

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

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.

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. 
 

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.

Congrats...

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!

One more point If it helps for anyone in the forum.  My congressman send me a email recently and it says my interview was in queue to be scheduled which exactly was after 30 days from
FOIA filing when I was in step 3. During this period I called USCIS several time and they never informed me anything like interview in queue . Only after close to 60 days FOIA was completed and interview scheduled in portal. Could be all this background /a-file information was send to USCIS much prior to my A-file upload (55days) ? I lost hopes when I saw folks getting interview in 30days and It took 55 days in my case . I wish they would have Informed me of interview in queue when I was in step 3 and when I called them asking for any advancement … It would have relieved some stress out of me .Honestly I don’t care now , just a share of my experience . Good luck everyone 🙏

22 months and counting. What a fantastic process !
 
- Congressman very actively trying to help - no real results 
- zero help from the ombudsman
- zero help from the senator
- zero help from filing repetitive e-requests for case outside of normal processing times
- zero help form emails through the uscis portal
- zero help from calling the uscis weekly
 
the USCIS has now "actively reviewed" my RFE response for over 6 months - RFE response was submitted to them 2 days after my interview in early May of 2021 - So I'm soon coming up with anniversaries, 2 years from filing and 1 year from the interview. Hurray ! 
 
 

Folks- my immigration journey came to an end today after 629 days here at Newark NJ. 
My appointment was at 7am. I reached the office building at 6:45 am (after parking at the nearby garage). The building was open to applicants at sharp 7am. After the TSA style security checks, I had to go to the 14th floor. Right out of the elevator was a security officer who inspected the appointment letter and directed me to head to Window 2 which was specifically for N400 applicants (Window 1 was for AOS folks).
 
The lady at window 2 took my appointment letter (last I saw of it) and asked me to have a seat until an IO calls me. It was 7:20 at this point.
At 8:50 am, a lady IO greeted me and took me to the office for the interview. She apologized for the delay (which was due to system issues) and got right to the oath. Following this I was asked for my green card, ID and passport. The next section was the civics , reading and writing portion. I kid you not when I say this, it was done in under 4 minutes! We moved on to reviewing the actual application. The only things I was asked to confirm were:
·       Legal Name, and whether I want to change it
·       Birth date
·       Were parents married before I was born and whether they are US citizens
·       Date of my last trip
 
Note: No documents were asked for.
 
Following this were the Yes/ No questions. The officer was selective in the YES/NO questions she asked. Hence this too was short – probably 3 minutes at most
 
 Another 3-4 minutes was spent in signing/confirming data and that was it – I was done. She did ask if I intended to travel in the next few months as coming back into the US without a green card was not an option.
 
At 9:08 am I was escorted back to the common area and asked to proceed to the 15th floor for the oath ceremony.
 
About an hour and 10 minutes later, 30 of us had a beautiful oath ceremony and we were pronounced US Citizens. Picture time!
Overall, I must say the Newark Field Office experience far exceeded my expectation. All personnel as far as I am concerned were courteous, professional- no horror stories to report here.
 
After exiting, I headed to the post office and submitted my passport application
There are so many people to thank on this forum for lending a helping hand or warm wish. The latest among them @sam713 has been a messiah of sorts for a large number of folks on this forum for cracking open the FOIA option – without which many of us Spring filers would be stuck in this rut forever.
 
Everyone who has been waiting for long and hasn't filed it- just do it. You have nothing to lose. Good luck and God bless!!

Thanks to the Community. 
 
I learnt about FOIA from this forum ..  I think it would have helped my application to move 
 
FOIA Request Submitted date: 01/04/2022
 
Current FOIA Status : Files Received
 
N-400 Application date : April 9 2020
N-400 Biometric Reuse : Feb 12 2021
Interview letter Received: Feb 8 2022
 
Interview Scheduled date : March 21 2022 
Field Office : NEWARK, NJ
 

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