85n280

June 20, 2009

Finally got our oath ceremony letter in the mail today! I updated my post below, hope it comes out formatted correctly.

The oath ceremony date matches 100% with the posting on the theater that the USCIS uses in my area (San Jose, CA)

http://www.cityofcampbell.com/heritagetheatre/events.htm

Going to the San Francisco Passport Office (US Department of State) to get the new passport the following day!

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June 16, 2009

Hi BigRay,

That's great!

Did you just walk in or did you schedule an infopass appointment?

Hey Guys!!!!!!!!!! I went to local field office today to find out my oath day, is on July 17th. Wahoo! But I have a question, do I need to notice or go to SSA to update my SS card information and tell them I'm a citizen by that time?

June 10, 2009

Yes, the interview was straightforward, a really straightforward but cordial man was the interviewer. It really is subjective who you get.

There are, statistically, average of two thousand interviewees each month in the san jose region for the N-400 which makes it one of the top 5 regions (this is all publicly available at the homeland security site). Statistically I think over 240,000 get approved each year from this specific office (Old Monterey Highway).

You may want to consider an attorney accompanying her if she can't overcome the butterflies. The 100 questions or so that are available for the new citizenship test are definitely the pool of questions, including those regionally specific ones (your congressman, your governor, etc.).

The actual English test (writing or reading a sentence) is silly but it seems the interview itself is the biggest gauge of the ability.

I was very nervous before the test even though I speak English fluently, but I realized afterwards that it was not nearly as bad as I had thought.

Having a really early appointment helped, there were not that many people there (7:45am).

Hope these thoughts are helpful!

my wife has her interview on july 6th. any suggestions.her english is poor. she is nervous.

I had my interview 2 weeks ago, and it really is just a straightforward interview. You are basically asked questions from the application form. If there are no changes in the application form like travel since the application filing or moving violations and speeding tickets, it's mostly NO and the last part YES of the application form. No need then to explain with more words. As for the history exam, my suggestion is that she study all the interview postings of the VJfilers during the last year, and she will notice that most of the interview questions come from a pool of 20 -30 questions. So I would put particular emphasis on these often repeated questions. As for the English written and reading, it's so simple. Same thing, have her look at all the interview postings. Again the pattern seems to be most around 10 or less of the same test questions, like writing "the President lives in the White House" and reading " Who lives in the White House?" , etc. Good luck to her!

June 8, 2009

I had my interview February 3rd, 2009 and oath ceremony March 19th. I received the letter with the oath ceremony date about a month after the interview.

Was your ceremony at the Heritage Theater in Campbell, CA?

That's very helpful... I found the link for the calendar of events at http://www.ci.campbell.ca.us/heritagetheatre/events.htm

I do hope I can get the same timing as you, that is, by mid-late July...

It seems like a lot of people get sworn in each ceremony, like a 1,000 per sitting?

June 8, 2009

Dear all,

Any San Jose, CA naturalization filers out there?

Just wanted to see if anyone out there in 2008 or 2009 have any first hand experience on the gap between interview and oath ceremony...

Thanks!

June 8, 2009

Late post addition, but thought it would be helpful to the group:

1. San Jose, CA filer (anyone else out there in 2009?)

2. "Walk-in" biometric (was not in country on scheduled biometric date, so walked in to the office a week later, no problem, although probably delayed my process)

3. Out of country between naturalization interview and oath ceremony, although not even close to having a measurable amount of time outside of the US (in past 3 years) and still a US resident.

Waiting for my oath appointment -- in San Jose there are no same-day oaths, but the municipal theater the USCIS uses (Campbell theater) publicly posts their calendar and so at any given time, the next 5-6 oath ceremony dates are clearly posted!

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