OlegAndSveta

Updating from Interview today
My husband and I were there 20 minutes before 8:10am Interview time and I went back at around 8:45am. Very pleasant and welcoming officer. He started with confirming my details, swearing in, etc. and then test for English language reading and writing, and then quickly went to 6 test questions. Study it all!! After that he worked through my Naturalization application a page at a time confirming details and I was shocked at the size of the now five inch folder that was all about me!! While my husband was not able to go into the interview room with me, I do think it confirms your marriage for them to see you are a couple in person and the officer commented that he didn't need to go through as many details about our relationship for that reason.
I did explain to the officer my worries about Oath date as I would be travelling back to Canada again for a week in April as I have an 85 year old year old father with dementia in a nursing home. Officer wrote my travel dates down and left the room to see what he could do. I am very grateful that he came back with the invitation for me to join this Saturday's group for Naturalization at the International Celebration Tale of Two Cities in Avondale and Goodyear.
So close to being finished with the process and very excited for Saturday!
Caro

Here is some info, which can, possibly, be helpful for those poor souls, who are, like us, are still waiting. USCIS now provides us with such useful option to request on status of the application as E-Request (just on uscis.gov). If you are waiting longer than projected time for the I-751 (which is, according their table is 6 months for CSC), you have a reason, sufficient enough to fill out that request, according to the instructions on the site.
We filled it out on 7/07, and just 11 days latter (they reserve 30 to give response) we got email, stating that CSC "ordered" our file for review, and that we will receive response during the 45 days time frame.
That is much better than wait one year for InfoPass appointment, in my opinion, so I decided to share this info.
This waiting, but now much more hopeful,
Oleg & Sveta