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Final timeline: San Jose FO 5-year rule Employment based. Application submitted online Sep 20, 2023 Applied 88 days before anniversary. Receipt notice / Reuse of biometrics Sep 20, 2023 Within a few minutes. Interview scheduled Dec 11, 2023 Interview Jan 18, 2024 Oath ceremony notice Jan 19, 2024 Notice date was 19th but I saw it roughly 6 hours after my interview, so was on the 18th itself. I am not sure why it said 19th even when it was 18th on the East Coast. Maybe USCIS runs on UK/GMT/UTC time lol. Very american. Oath Jan 26, 2024 San Jose does oaths every other Friday it seems. Oath ceremony is literally a drive through in their parking lot. Again, very american. People line up in their cars in 4 rows. Batches of about 15 cars are the asked to hop out. You listen to the oath, and all you do is acknowledge. Didn't even have to repeat the oath lol. Then you get back in your car and someone comes over with the certificate and asks you to drive off. Other than waiting in the car, was under 5min. Took under 30min in total. People were allowed to record videos/take pictures since it was in the parking lot. Guests were allowed. Certificate issued notice Jan 27 2024 I got my certificate right after the oath so again not sure why the notice date was 1 day after even though I saw it within a few hours of 26th itself in USCIS online status. UTC time lol.

Had my interview today, everything went well. Oath ceremony scheduled for next Fri 26th, got the notice online about 6 hours after the interview. Was in an out in about 40min, the actual relevant interview part was maybe 5 min (test + few yes/no questions), rest of the time was just chatting about other stuff. They let me into the building 30min early and I was called in early too. Maybe a 5min wait at max.

Things are definitely picked up on random it feels. For example I filed earlier than this person https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/s/HunBlFgC8g and yet got my interview later. Similar case. Same FO.