PedroDaGr8

Thanks, I'll let you know how my wife does and all the details!

Arrived 15 minutes prior to scheduled 10:45 interview. 
 
At the check-in they scanned index finger of both hands and took an image of my face. And that's the closest I got to a Biometrics. (The last one I had was early 2019. No interview for my I751 so I hadn't seen the inside of the Seattle FO for some 3.5 years.)
 
Then upstairs to wait. Was called at around 11. 
 
A gruff but extremely professional IO, in what could only have been his own office, interviewed me. 
 
After 25 minutes or so, he said congratulations and directed me towards the auditorium, where I forfeited my two Green Cards and waited with others until we had 15 or so folks and then we were asked to stand and recite the Oath. Directly after we were handed our Naturalization Certificates.  
 
We left out the back door as there were others waiting to get in.
 
Just under 11 months. 
 
Case Closed!
 
(which is what it says now in my USCIS account lol)
 
 
 
 
 

I think your chances are pretty good because your biometrics should still be valid. 

Yes, they will take your green card at oath. 

As for passport applications, it seems like most places are running around 1 month for expedited.  For my wife, we have a trip scheduled at the end of this month, so our only option (if she gets a same day oath) will be to try and get an emergency passport. 

It resets when your interview notice gets sent. Yesterday morning, before we got out interview notice, ours said 3 months. After we received the notice, it says 12 months.
 

My wife received her notice online on 01JUL2022 but we did not receive the paper notice until 14JUL2022. 

I had my interview at 8:30 am in early July. After I was done with interview, which was before 9 I was sent to the auditorium (where they were just  finishing another oath ceremony) and I have oath ceremony with +/- 15 other people within 20 min. I had my biometrics done after I applied for N400, so I didn't need to wait for them to be reapproved.
 
Of course that's just how it happened to me...

Kind of. The definition of national interest is very loose. For example, you can expedite for business reasons if the business benefits the USA, there is a thread about it in this forum. Basically, if the money from the business comes back to the USA and this business is moving the US Citizen to a temporary international position, then that is sufficient to expedite for the LPR spouse. Also, congrats to your friend! 
 
This out-of-order processing is pretty rare but happens from time-to-time. It seems like one or two cases a year get processed out-of-order. To be honest, nobody knows for certain why this happens but it seems to be more common right after a bunch of new agents get hired (like right now). My guess is a new agent grabbed a case from the wrong end of their workload. 

That seems like a better plan than rescheduling your interview. In general, rescheduling your interview should be your last resort. I would reschedule a trip way before I would reschedule an interview. Even if the oath ceremony occurs during your trip, it can be rescheduled once without too much issue.

Honest opinion: If possible - move your trip. It's technically possible to move your interview with valid cause and there are people who have done that and be successful. But if you look at the overwhelming ratio of folks who requested a change, they have been stuck in limbo for weeks/months. If the citizenship timeline doesn't matter to you - then you should be fine requesting a change, just be prepared for a quick or super long timeframe based on how lady luck serves you!

Looks like the USCIS outdid itself so far on my prediction "most folks with filing dates close to end of December 2021 should be scheduled by mid August 2022" Most folks with PDs  until December 15th seem to have already been scheduled. Whats pending is last 15 days of 2021 . I am expecting December 2021 scheduling to completed hopefully by end of next week. 🤞😀


In case you have not , please update the sheet with your alias and dates so that we can have better tracking. 

While it sounds good in theory, it is almost universally agreed that applicants should NOT share their entire receipt number (which you call case ID) except with people close to them, their attorney, etc. USCIS considers the receipt number personally identifying information. When linked to an account name, or worse, actual name, it can increase the risk of identity theft or other issues. This is why the moderators almost always instruct people to remove their case number from posts. As such, requesting that users fill in this information in an off-site spreadsheet is likely to run afoul of the moderators of this site. 

The above post is correct in every way.

While it sounds good in theory, it is almost universally agreed that applicants should NOT share their entire receipt number (which you call case ID) except with people close to them, their attorney, etc. USCIS considers the receipt number personally identifying information. When linked to an account name, or worse, actual name, it can increase the risk of identity theft or other issues. This is why the moderators almost always instruct people to remove their case number from posts. As such, requesting that users fill in this information in an off-site spreadsheet is likely to run afoul of the moderators of this site. 

Receive online notice for oath day scheduled. 4 weeks after interview day. 

If I am seeing this right  , I see a couple of folks from November and early to mid December 2021 have gotten scheduled in late August and early September. Looks like Seattle is working at warp speed. 





 

Thanks! Updated the spreadsheet just now.

Hello! Just to give you all some hope: I just got an interview notice for the end of August and I applied only at the beginning of October (reused biometrics) so perhaps things are improving! The interview is in their Seattle location.

Ahh, I misread. Yeah that definitely seems reasonable if they are going to meet their 6mo target at the end of FY2023. 

I meant they should have their interviews scheduled by mid Sept - so maybe complete by end October. That would be a 10 month turnaround time for a December filer - so only slightly faster than it currently seems to be (11 months from application to interview). 
 
Then they still have all year next year to try improve from 10 months waiting time to 6 months (target by end FY2023).

We became citizens today at the special 4th of July ceremony (which was quite beautifully done, if I might add). All the best to those waiting. 

It resets when your interview notice gets sent. Yesterday morning, before we got out interview notice, ours said 3 months. After we received the notice, it says 12 months.
 

That's a quicker turnaround than mine. 
 
09/07/21 applied online
06/23/22 interview scheduled
08/04/22 interview date
 
 

Application date 09/27/21. Got interview scheduled for 08/09. Still shows 12 months to processing 😝

I think it is very possible, if not likely. This timing has us receiving the interview notice about 9.5 months after filing and the interview will be almost exactly 11 months from filing. It is very clear that the Seattle site is actually making some progress on their backlog. Consider that in January of this year it was taking around 15.5 months to receive an interview notice and 16.5 months to have the interview. If they keep accelerating like this, I think they may actually be able to hit that 6 month target processing time.

Many congratulations !! Interestingly there is no one filer with an Oct filing date in the tracker . Sept is followed by a light Nov and then a heavy December. Can the number of filers be really light in October 21 ?  Wishful thinking .🤞😀