Jujuy

So today I had my interview. Here is my experience. My case is marriage based.

I arrived at 11:45 am, parked the car ($8) and went to the building.
I went with my wife and my 2 daughters (2 years old, and 6 months old). We all went through the metal detector and waited in line to check in for my appointment (12:10 pm). The line was a bit long, and it took time. Finally at 12:15, I asked the 3 people ahead of me to let me go first as I was already late. They were really polite and let me go before them and I checked in. There a lady asked me for the notice of interview and my driver license.

We went upstairs to the waiting room and there were a lot of people waiting there. An officer said in loud voice that everybody should have their passport, green card and drivers license ready before being called.
 
An officer called me at 1:05 pm. My interview was in-person with the officer who called me. The questions I was asked were the following:

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
How many U.S. Senators are there?
Who is the father of our country?
What is the capital of your state?
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
 
Then they asked me to read on a tablet the sentence, "The father of our country is George Washington." And they asked me to write, "We have 100 senators."
 
Then we went through different questions like, "How long have you been married? Do you have children? Do you still work at the same place you stated before? etc."
 
The officer told me that I passed the interview, but they will let me know when to return for the oath ceremony as today there were no more available spots... That was really disappointing as we finished the interview at around 1:30 pm, but people were in line to go to the room where the ceremony is held. And people that were called after me were heading to the line.

Cheers to my wife and little ones who accompanied me and waited for almost 2 hours just to hear there was no oath ceremony today. 

Looking forward to the Notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony.

So today I had my interview. Here is my experience. My case is marriage based.

I arrived at 11:45 am, parked the car ($8) and went to the building.
I went with my wife and my 2 daughters (2 years old, and 6 months old). We all went through the metal detector and waited in line to check in for my appointment (12:10 pm). The line was a bit long, and it took time. Finally at 12:15, I asked the 3 people ahead of me to let me go first as I was already late. They were really polite and let me go before them and I checked in. There a lady asked me for the notice of interview and my driver license.

We went upstairs to the waiting room and there were a lot of people waiting there. An officer said in loud voice that everybody should have their passport, green card and drivers license ready before being called.
 
An officer called me at 1:05 pm. My interview was in-person with the officer who called me. The questions I was asked were the following:

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
How many U.S. Senators are there?
Who is the father of our country?
What is the capital of your state?
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
 
Then they asked me to read on a tablet the sentence, "The father of our country is George Washington." And they asked me to write, "We have 100 senators."
 
Then we went through different questions like, "How long have you been married? Do you have children? Do you still work at the same place you stated before? etc."
 
The officer told me that I passed the interview, but they will let me know when to return for the oath ceremony as today there were no more available spots... That was really disappointing as we finished the interview at around 1:30 pm, but people were in line to go to the room where the ceremony is held. And people that were called after me were heading to the line.

Cheers to my wife and little ones who accompanied me and waited for almost 2 hours just to hear there was no oath ceremony today. 

Looking forward to the Notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony.

So today I had my interview. Here is my experience. My case is marriage based.

I arrived at 11:45 am, parked the car ($8) and went to the building.
I went with my wife and my 2 daughters (2 years old, and 6 months old). We all went through the metal detector and waited in line to check in for my appointment (12:10 pm). The line was a bit long, and it took time. Finally at 12:15, I asked the 3 people ahead of me to let me go first as I was already late. They were really polite and let me go before them and I checked in. There a lady asked me for the notice of interview and my driver license.

We went upstairs to the waiting room and there were a lot of people waiting there. An officer said in loud voice that everybody should have their passport, green card and drivers license ready before being called.
 
An officer called me at 1:05 pm. My interview was in-person with the officer who called me. The questions I was asked were the following:

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
How many U.S. Senators are there?
Who is the father of our country?
What is the capital of your state?
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
 
Then they asked me to read on a tablet the sentence, "The father of our country is George Washington." And they asked me to write, "We have 100 senators."
 
Then we went through different questions like, "How long have you been married? Do you have children? Do you still work at the same place you stated before? etc."
 
The officer told me that I passed the interview, but they will let me know when to return for the oath ceremony as today there were no more available spots... That was really disappointing as we finished the interview at around 1:30 pm, but people were in line to go to the room where the ceremony is held. And people that were called after me were heading to the line.

Cheers to my wife and little ones who accompanied me and waited for almost 2 hours just to hear there was no oath ceremony today. 

Looking forward to the Notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony.

So... I received my interview notice today!!! 
My interview will take place exactly 6 months after I filed my case. (04/11/2022 - 10/11/2022).
I just want to thank all of you who post updates about your case, why? Because when I filed and I saw that my "estimated time* until case decision was approx. 18 months", I started to make travel plans, but out of the blue I found this community and it made me cancel all my plans as I noticed the cases were speeding up! 
This is my thankful post
 
Random fact, if I pass the test and become a US citizen that day, it would be 3 years, 3 months and 7 days since I came to the US.   

So... I received my interview notice today!!! 
My interview will take place exactly 6 months after I filed my case. (04/11/2022 - 10/11/2022).
I just want to thank all of you who post updates about your case, why? Because when I filed and I saw that my "estimated time* until case decision was approx. 18 months", I started to make travel plans, but out of the blue I found this community and it made me cancel all my plans as I noticed the cases were speeding up! 
This is my thankful post
 
Random fact, if I pass the test and become a US citizen that day, it would be 3 years, 3 months and 7 days since I came to the US.   

So... I received my interview notice today!!! 
My interview will take place exactly 6 months after I filed my case. (04/11/2022 - 10/11/2022).
I just want to thank all of you who post updates about your case, why? Because when I filed and I saw that my "estimated time* until case decision was approx. 18 months", I started to make travel plans, but out of the blue I found this community and it made me cancel all my plans as I noticed the cases were speeding up! 
This is my thankful post
 
Random fact, if I pass the test and become a US citizen that day, it would be 3 years, 3 months and 7 days since I came to the US.   

It really depends on the person...
The google doc helps in getting a prediction of your interview date, as it takes into account the last 10 data points prior to your case.

Yes, I can imagine the same... I hope to be in that small percentage that can have the interview in person, fingers crossed. 

Thanks, I'll let you know how my wife does and all the details!

Just logged in (for like 37th time today), I finally got my notice! Interview on September 28th!

Arrived 15 minutes prior to scheduled 10:45 interview. 
 
At the check-in they scanned index finger of both hands and took an image of my face. And that's the closest I got to a Biometrics. (The last one I had was early 2019. No interview for my I751 so I hadn't seen the inside of the Seattle FO for some 3.5 years.)
 
Then upstairs to wait. Was called at around 11. 
 
A gruff but extremely professional IO, in what could only have been his own office, interviewed me. 
 
After 25 minutes or so, he said congratulations and directed me towards the auditorium, where I forfeited my two Green Cards and waited with others until we had 15 or so folks and then we were asked to stand and recite the Oath. Directly after we were handed our Naturalization Certificates.  
 
We left out the back door as there were others waiting to get in.
 
Just under 11 months. 
 
Case Closed!
 
(which is what it says now in my USCIS account lol)
 
 
 
 
 

I’ll definitely message here and update the spreadsheet once I get the date! Still nothing as of today, checking obsessively several times a day 🥴

Hi all. After many (many) years of waiting and lurking on this board, I finally have an update that I can share with you all. 
 
Hopefully this is helpful to others who are also experiencing abnormal timelines / waiting periods! Oh, and I’m using a throwaway because there’s a lot of identifying information here but happy to answer any Qs about the below if you’d like. I’m an Australian citizen but have been living in the U.S. on/off for most of my life with various visas and my husband was born here. 
 
We hired a lawyer who was extremely helpful throughout this process, especially when it came to contacting my government representative and advising me in the final interview. Between 2018 and 2022 I had to make multiple emergency appts at the Seattle office for new I-551 stamps (for my employer) and each time the officers remarked how unusual it was that my case was taking so long. Not only was my I-751 extremely delayed but I was also asked to come in for two citizenship interviews. Here’s how it all went down…
 
I-751 Timeline (via K1 visa GC)
October 24, 2018: Submitted application via mail January 29, 2020: Request for more evidence about our marriage, submitted photos/affidavits/rental agreements/bank statements/health insurance/etc. 
May 19, 2020: Case was transferred to another USCIS office (?) I think because of California case loads during the pandemic
June 10, 2020: We’re ready to schedule your interview
February 16, 2021: Applied for N400 online (See below)
December 13, 2021: Contacted Congresswoman for help with my application. USCIS agreed my case was outside of processing time but said that I had “cancelled” my I-751 interview, which was why I haven’t heard any updates. That wasn’t true so I followed up again but they insisted there was nothing they could do now that the case was a combo I-751/N400 case.
July 6, 2022: Combo interview with N400 at 10:30am. It was pretty clear the officer hadn’t read our case file and was under the impression that our marriage wasn’t legitimate. Despite the fact that the interview notice said clearly “only bring yourself” she insisted on my husband attending, so I had to call him and ask him to come inside. She then asked us a laundry list of questions that we had proof of in our file, despite us having to submit additional evidence and waiting far too long to have this application approved. Our lawyer helped us navigate the situation and re-iterated that at this point we should have been approved w/o an interview, that we’d provided more than enough evidence, and that I had a clean record/our marriage was legitimate. Ultimately the officer decided that a decision couldn’t be made and asked my husband to leave the room while she conducted the N400 interview. Sigh.
July 7, 2022: The very next day my case was updated to say that my I-751 application was approved. I received a letter that said I wouldn’t receive my green card because my N400 was approved.
N400 Timeline
February 16, 2021: Submitted N400 application online
April 18, 2022: Interview notice. I had to cancel for a medical reason (they were super kind about it).
June 9, 2022: Interview scheduled for July 6. 
July 6, 2022: I-751/N400 combo interview at 10:30am. The N400 part was pretty straight-forward and I got all of the civics questions right. The officer told me I’d passed the interview but she couldn’t approve because she needed to review our I-751. She gave me a N-652 that said I passed but a decision cannot be made yet. 
July 18, 2022: Received notice that a second interview scheduled for July 27. I was freaking at this point but my lawyer assured me everything was okay and it was probably a clerical error. I spent days Googling things about second interviews and was convinced I was going to be deported or thrown in jail (I have no reason to believe that but I was terrified, as many of us are throughout the USCIS interview). 
July 27, 2022: My second interview was with the same officer at 10:30am. She sat me down and said “I’m sorry to bring you in again but your signature didn’t save the first time around so I just need you to sign these forms again.” I think I cried a little. After signing the iPad, I went downstairs and participated in the Oath Ceremony with about 12 other people. They basically wait until there are 12 people sitting in the auditorium and do the ceremony. They didn’t allow anyone else to be in the room (COVID) and we kept our masks on the entire time. Once we hit capacity they told people to line-up outside and that there would be another ceremony in 15 minutes. Then they handed me my certificate and I went on my way.
July 28, 2022: Applied for my U.S. passport!

If I am seeing this right  , I see a couple of folks from November and early to mid December 2021 have gotten scheduled in late August and early September. Looks like Seattle is working at warp speed.