NickD, I understand your point that my results my vary, but that's the case for everything in life as well as immigration. I believe the whole point of VisaJourney is to share people's actual experiences in the hopes that it paints an informed fact-based picture of what we might expect. I'm not trying to be rude, but vague hypotheticals are less helpful.
Thank you for the time in replying and have a happy new year.
Songer,
I'm not at the interview stage yet, but I came across some posts that you may find helpful.
Here's a case where rescheduling the interview only caused a 60 day delay:
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?323930-N400-interview-rescheduling-any-experiences
Here's a case where the applicant asked for a rescheduled interview, but didn't hear anything for a weeks afterwards (unfortunately, we don't know how this one ended):
http://www.trackitt.com/usa-discussion-forums/n400/1147187227/reschedule-naturalization-interview
There are three applicants on this thread who rescheduled their interviews (with delays of only 1-3 months):
http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/210024-postponing-naturalization-n400-interview-date/
Here's a case where USCIS rescheduled the applicant's interview for a later time on the same day:
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?242615-Rescheduling-citizenship-interview-experience-at-the-Minneapolis-St-Paul-district-of
Here's a case where an applicant (not the original poster) sent in a rescheduling request that was never processed and had to explain why he/she missed the interview:
http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/183080-rescheduled-your-n400-interview/
Songer got a reaction from Jon York in Examples of Postponing/Rescheduling Interviews