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Oh I see. Expired German passport isn't a problem for N-400 interview or becoming a US citizen. Just bring it to the interview. You may or may not be asked for it. What's more important is valid Driver's License or state ID with correct address and valid GC (or expired GC with valid extension letter) Good luck!

December 2024 filers stats as of 02/20/2025 @ 7:45 PM ET: Approved: 410 Denied: 2 Fingerprints Scheduled: 648 Interview Cancelled: 82 Interview Scheduled: 7541 Pending: 4 Processing: 19306 Received: 42 ResponseToRFE: 4 RFE: 33 Withdrawal: 8 OathCeremonyNotice: 258 OathCeremonyScheduled: 195 OathCeremonyReady: 1

Are you British? Why do you need an appointment at embassy to renew passport? You can do it online. If you haven't started the process of UK passport renewal, just wait to renew passport after your N-400 interview. It's OK to have expired UK passport. You just can't use it for travel. When you become a US citizen, use US passport to leave and enter the US. Use UK passport to leave and enter the UK. Other countries - up to you, whichever passport gives you better terms.

How?

My lawyer advised only pages with stamps and visas when I did AOS. I don't see how scanning blank pages can hurt.

I also checked "More than one trip" and travel plans "To be determined". I never used AP though after I got it.

I see, good point. I checked AOS papers I did in 2019. Form I-131 had the same text back then. I never included any statement. My lawyer filed the case. I-131 was approved (along with I-765, producing 2 in 1 card).

I see. Hopefully you'll get ceremony soon. Keep us updated.

Why is your life on hold? You are LPR right now, having mostly same rights as a US citizen other than voting, spending unlimited time outside the US or getting some very limited jobs or getting an elected position. I don't recommend it, but technically you can even leave the US for a short urgent overseas trip if needed. You will be asked about trips between interview and oath on the day of oath. If I understand correctly, you're naturalizing before 5 year anniversary of being an LPR. That's already a great bonus.

My impression is aealed envelope is a thing of the past. Nowadays, in most cases, this information is sent electronically and immigrant doesn't need yo carry any envelopes.

You don't need to. Rejected petition didn't create a case as far as I know.

Congrats! Don't take estimated processing time too seriously. It can change all the time without real reason. Some people see 7 months until decision on day of their oath!

Which exact question?

Part 7 doesn't ask how you qualify. Part 8 does but it's not applicable.

Can you elaborate on this?

Good luck! Are you coming with the spouse?

I would upload all statements, yes. USCIS needs to see you use your bank accounts and share finances through the years, on daily basis. The amount of evidence has nothing to do with processing times. Most of the times the case sits in the queue and waits for its turn. Then officer opens file, spends 10-20 minutes on it and decides the case. He doesn't read each line of each statement, unless there's something suspicious about the case or evidence. The way evidence is used - officer takes a quick sample (random statement or two) from everything uploaded and ensures it's good. Don't forget, everybody naturalizing has to go to interview. This is where most of time on case is spent, probably 30-40 minutes per person on average. About 30000 people filed for N-400 in December 2024 alone. Multiply it by 30 (optimistic estimate). This equals to 900 000 minutes on interviews alone, or 15000 hours... And every month there are new filers.

My field office also showed over 6 months for processing times, but I got scheduled for interview in March. At the same time, processing time at my field office for I-751 was initially 7 months, but it ended up being 20.5 months. You just never know. I hope everybody in December 2024 gets their interview soon. I will definitely post more detailed update once interview and oath is over.

Yes I got interview, but I'm in the minority of lucky ones. As of right now, about 7500 December filers were scheduled for interview, and about 20000 are still waiting for interview date. There's also about 360 super lucky people who already naturalized. There's nothing to worry about. I was ready to wait for 6-8 months for the interview. Have you checked processing times for your field office? https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ They're different for every office.

This is typical, especially for MyProgress and MyUSCIS. I'm pretty sure this link will continue working during outage: https://egov.uscis.gov/ In my opinion, it's 100 better as it doesn't require login and is more reliable. Just need to have case number stored somewhere in your notes to copy/paste and check case status.

I'm not a lawyer and not an expert in this subject. I saw the news of people not being able to get their parole related docs. But your wife is married to you, US citizen. Even people out of status can get GC if they're married to US citizen, as long as they entered with inspection and don't have other bars to adjustment. Not receiving NOA just yet is normal. I'd give at least 4-8 weeks for it to show in the mail, this is normal timeline. You didn't even have 2 full weeks since filing. When did application arrive to USCIS? I bet it took few days...

Happy people! Aloha!

You can't know for sure and nobody could tell you exactluly why. By default, everybody should do biometrics after filing I-751. Some people get biometrics reused, it's a little gift from USCIS, but it's also their discretion.

That's OK, I wasn't aware what it is called in French but now I know 😃 Thank you for sharing

Why are you referencing French government website? It is actually called "large book" in offical DS-11 form: https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds11_pdf.PDF