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CONGRATULATIONS !!!! :D But look at the state of the country you're inheriting. :( Vote wisely....

I hope so. Don't forget to register to vote! :D

Hi z350, I haven't posted for a while, but I remember you were at the ceremony with your wife when I became a citizen almost 2 years ago. Have you thought of asking BCIS what's taking so long? I mean, you ought to become a citizen before you have to renew your green card! Also, maybe you'd...

This is good advice, and one other thing... as a permanent resident, if you move first, then USCIS needs to be notified of your new address. So you would be notifying them of the move with one piece of paperwork and applying for naturalization with another. Better get naturalized first, then...

Congratualtions bsnl. I hope you remembered to register to vote. That's important! I guess my next big duty will be, if called, to serve on a jury. Oddly enough, I'm looking forward to that.

I did expedited and it came in under 2 weeks. I don't know what the average is for regular service, but I suspect that the 6 week time is unusual and the month is probably what will happen. I sent in my original certificate. I don't know what the rules are about copies and travelling. I...

Congratulations! Very fast, indeed!

I voted again After 3.5 months of being a citizen, I voted for the second time. So if you don't like the change in government, you can always blame me. :D The touch-screen voting was very easy and worked nicely. Good luck to everyone waiting for the various steps to citizenship.

I can't offer any advice, but as an ex-Montrealer who is now a US citizen I want to say: GOOD LUCK!

It's filed; what now? Now that I'm a citizen, I've finally filed the I-130 application for my wife's son. I sent it to Texas, as required for someone from Florida, but it seems to have been sent to California. What's up with that, and what happens now? I see that the state department...

Congratulations Mr. or Mrs. v1v1v1. (Can't tell which from the name! :) ) Touch screen voting is easy and organized. You'll like it. I feel like the journey is just beginning. Everything up to now has just been preparation, like lacing up sneakers. Have fun, my fellow American!

New priority date The October 1st-priority date has moved up to May 1, 2000. Woo-hoo! :p

Yes of course. And even if not, the Department of Homeland Security is not about to bust down the door of a citizen that has a scanned a copy of his naturalization certificate as a backup while the State Department is making his passport. I suspect they have enough bad guys to catch that they...

Caillie's description of ceremony is identical to mine. The only thing I have to add is that the videos were washed out, not bright enough and not very visible and the audio dropped out a few times. All in all the ceremony was quite lame. I was glad to get it over with and get out of there...

I went to the post office on Ehrlich & Dale Mabry to give them my passport application and cheques (no credit cards!). To file for a passport they needed to send my citizenship certificate into the State Department. So photocopy everything before you give it to them. I paid the extra $60...

I received no notice, after FP, that from anything was in progress relating to the FBI. The next thing I got was an invitation to the interview. At the interview I did ask about the FP and that whole process and I was told that it was complete, so I guess the USCIS has that info in your file...

Here's what I followed: Link to a thread on this portal - docs to bring to an N-400 interview Look especially at the two long posts from JohnnyCash. I understand that this was put together from lots of people's worst cases: it's comprehensive. (I forgot my marriage certificate, and the...

I don't know how you would get DMV history, and I don't know that you need DMV history. I think that if there's something on your record that CIS needs to know about it, they already know it and you just have to tell them if they ask you. You can show them ticket receipts if they ask, and then...

Of course, I can't tell you what will happen at your interview. As they say, YMMV. But I can tell you that I had a parking ticket I forgot to put on the form, and when I mentioned it at the interview the guy said he didn't care about it. I had also forgotten to send in a couple of photocopied...

Welcome & congrats. Congratulations Caillie! Welcome bsnl. Did you receive notice for your interview? If so that would be incredibly fast. What about fingerprints? Don't worry about the process: it's all painless. :) The waiting is the only thing that hurts.