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Passport My passport arrived yesterday, along with my uncreased naturalization certificate. It took just over the six weeks promised. (My voter registration card came in about the same time frame.) It is not an E passport, and I don't know whether that is good or bad, but I should have one...

Ceremony It is the last week of June isn't it? I gather that your ceremony was supposed to be at the court house because you are doing a name change....you may have to wait until the next one there, as I don't think the regular ceremony has any provision for name change.

cameras There is no hindrance to bringing cameras to the ceremony. Many people had their pictures taken standing in front of the US flag or the projection screen which featured a graphic of a flag. If there was a judge there, then that person wasn't identified to the crowd as such. There...

Name changes There was no mention of name changes in the announcements from the stage. There may have been some discussion with the immigration officer when name changing candidates handed over their forms, but I wasn't privy to any such.

Ich bin traurig, fraulein. The only way you will be able to go on stage will be as an American Idol, not as an American citizen. With 400 people, it would take a very long time to call everyone up and present them with their certificate. The whole ceremony should go less than three...

take the family It takes place at the Tampa Convention Center, at 333 S Franklin St. It is reasonably light hearted and not too much hard thinking is required. Take your family and friends, most people there had a few supporters. The USCIS gives you a little American flag to wave. It is...

Now a citizen The ceremony was reasonably informal. There had been one already that morning, and this afternoon's ceremony actually started a little early, at 12.55. Our first task was to line up and show that we had filled out our FINAL (yeh!) form for the USCIS and get our green cards bagged...

hooray! A letter has arrived inviting me to a Citizenship Ceremony at 1PM on May 22. This long journey is about to end.

Infopass I scheduled an Infopass appointment for Friday (I am in California right now and that is the earliest I can be there in Tampa), and will go in and ask if the blackout letter affects me at all. Caillie, you have my sympathy, being descheduled with no new date being given must be very...

Blackout date? I was expecting to get a letter inviting me to an oath ceremony, but instead I got one, dated May 10, which basically says the following. Due to a blackout at the USCIS office on May 9, my interview that was scheduled for May 9 has been rescheduled to July 3. But, I never...

Civics test And for the person who was concerned that the questions in the Civics / History test might be skewed if one's skin color or accent is not a certain accepted version, the questions are read off a computer screen, and may be randomly generated. Also, there are many immigration...

thank you HWPD for your kind words. If anyone has any questions about the procedure please ask. I know how daunting it can appear to be while waiting for the interview. Ask me now while it is fresh in my mind. The whole interview took about 15 minutes. The average waiting time in that...

Approved I went to my scheduled interview today, arriving at 7.30 for an 8.10 appointment. The security guard at the door told me to go down and wait in a trailer building which is set up next to the District Office. I was getting pretty nervous about 9.20 when I had seen many, many other...

Interview date When I requested my new interview date via mail, I also set up an Infopass appointment for April 13 so that I could check that my interview had been descheduled and rescheduled in the event I heard nothing by that time. I went into the USCIS on the appointed date, asked about...

I looked at your signature and it said the interview was Early May still. Descheduling is still good news. At least you know that they are not still expecting you to show up in Memphis.

Great news! I am happy for you. It would have been very unfair for you to have to wait longer because of an error made by the USCIS. It seems very quick that they got back to you with this new date. Let's hope that is a good sign for all of us.

Bullseye! I got my interview notice date today. It is scheduled for May 10, at 8:10am. Day and time I get back from Australia: May 10, at 11.45pm. So I am writing to ask for a new interview date. N400 APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION was received on October 7, 2005 Fingerprint Date...

if it is down then it has been down a while. HWPD has an appointment date, but didn't post that news here on this thread. The notice came on March 25. It would seem a big coincidence that the status was unavailable just before the notice finally came thru. HWPD's appointment date is on May...

I have the InfoPass problem too. Maybe you will be able to get thru on the phone today to sort out this Memphis mess. Good luck.

What is the date of your interview? Memphis? Are they nuts? Tell me the date please, as my letter is coming soon and it would be good to have a ball park idea of when so I can get my future travel plans in order. That is good news, sort of...but Memphis?