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Alright... joining this thread! Interview on April 12. Went well, passed civics test, interestingly it was a virtual interview with a remote officer. I was hoping that would mean it might get approved faster. Still waiting at the moment. Interview - April 12, 2024 I-751 transferred to NBC - April 15, 2024

@Rebecca92 did this ever get resolved?

I'm not saying it'll delay it, I'm saying that it could speed it up.

They asked what might speed it up, I think we can definitively say waiting to take documents to the interview won't affect anything. It was there when I submitted mine on January 8 in the additional documents section.

You should be able to upload those. They updated the N400 online somewhat recently and there's now a specific section to upload tax transcripts.

Zero evidence for this, but I uploaded tons of evidence with my N400 (basically all the same stuff you used for I-751 evidence for finances, taxes etc) along with a "please do a combo interview" letter. I got a virtual interview (at the physical field office) and it was clear within 2 minutes that the officer was already planning to approve me.

For DC folks in the WhatsApp thread it seems like 3-4 weeks from interview to case showing as approved/oath ready to be scheduled is the norm. Oath itself is usually 2-3 months post-interview.

They will likely just verbally check this at the interview and fix it then.

Yes - just the typical "did you ever?" yes/no. I wasn't asked to define anything.

Nope - I just got asked 2-3 of the questions verbally.

And my I-751 just changed to case was transferred.

Aaaand done -

Re-posting from the I-751 thread. Back from my I-751/N400 interview at the Fairfax office. In a surprising turn of events it was a virtual interview. The officer told me it would be a combo interview, but they never called my spouse in. I had uploaded lots of evidence documents with my N400 (combining finances, taxes, leases etc.) and that seemed to have sped it up. Interview lasted 10 minutes - civics questions first (how many senators, how long do they serve, what rights are protected in the first amendment, who is the speaker of the house, two US holidays, promise you make when becoming a citizen), confirmed address, updated a couple of errors I made on the N400 form, and asked if we had filed taxes. Done and conditionally approved pending I-751 approval - said it would take 2-3 days for the I-751 to get transferred, 2-3 weeks for approval, oath scheduling could be as fast as a couple of weeks. I let them know i was travelling all of May and they said they would shoot for June.

Back from my I-751/N400 interview at the Fairfax office. In a surprising turn of events it was a virtual interview. The officer told me it would be a combo interview, but they never called my spouse in. I had uploaded lots of evidence documents with my N400 (combining finances, taxes, leases etc.) and that seemed to have sped it up. Interview lasted 10 minutes - civics questions first (how many senators, how long do they serve, what rights are protected in the first amendment, who is the speaker of the house, two US holidays, promise you make when becoming a citizen), confirmed address, updated a couple of errors I made on the N400 form, and asked if we had filed taxes. Done and conditionally approved pending I-751 approval - said it would take 2-3 days for the I-751 to get transferred, 2-3 weeks for approval, oath scheduling could be as fast as a couple of weeks. I let them know i was travelling all of May and they said they would shoot for June. Very anticlimactic overall, but I'm done! I would definitely say if you're eligible to file N400 and have a pending I-751 definitely go ahead and apply if you want to speed things up.

Congratulations! Did your appointment letter state that it would be a combo interview? Did they ask you to bring the EAD/AP or did you just happen to have them with you? My interview is tomorrow, hoping it'll be similarly speedy/easy.

You don't want to file N400?

If you have a pending I-751 I've heard they can't approve same day or do same day oath ceremony.

Looks good to me. I would bring tax transcripts as opposed to returns as they're a lot shorter to print.

The interview is almost always scheduled for 90+ days after filing if you file on the earliest possible early filing date.

DC

Interview scheduled for N400 interview next month today - 59 days after filing, and 30 days before my 3 year GC anniversary.

Interview scheduled for April 12 today.

Broadly there are three "types" of folks going through the immigration process - 1) folks who learn the process inside out, do most/all of their filing themselves, 2) folks who don't know much about the process and trust their lawyer to do everything for them, 3) folks who don't inform themselves and try to go it alone. 2) works absolutely fine if you have a good lawyer, and can afford it, 1) is the route most folks on this forum take. Given how zero-sum the US immigration is - success vs banished forever (deliberate hyperbole there...) - I would far rather know all the ins and outs of the process. If you have a good lawyer, they'll keep you on rails and will guide you through the process and you'll be fine. But I've also read stories of folks with bad lawyers on here. My post was motivated by the fact that a LOT of people on this forum are in bucket 3) who do things like file for a replacement green card instead of applying to remove conditions, or apply for citizenship before they are eligible. I'm still not entirely sure how long you've held your green card (see the 3 vs 5 year article posted above), but if you're married to a USC and have held a GC for 3 years minus 90 days, or you're not married and have held it for 5 years minus 90 days (including no long absences from the US during that time) then you're eligible to file for citizenship. You can fill out your VJ timeline here - it lets other users see filing statistics, and get a better idea of when their case might be approved. More importantly it gives context to other folks when they are answering your questions/replying to your post.

Almost everybody else in this thread is filing under the 3 or 5 year rule, and given that you haven't filled out your timeline I assumed you were in the same boat. You said your GC anniversary was August, which would have meant your interview was before it had been 3/5 years since receiving your original greencard. This doesn't apply to you given you've already been a greencard holder for more than 5 years.

Congratulations!!! It's really heartening to hear an IO who wants to see people succeed - a really nice counterpoint to some of the horror stories you hear about IOs being jerks.