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I'm finally a U.S citizen after 24 yrs of being here. - after almost being deported for spending 3 months away from the U.S - after spending time in many detention rooms at various airports (even with valid documents) - after not being allowed to return to the U.S to see my own family, even...

Oroper, my interview was scheduled at 7:30am last Thursday. But I got called only at 7:50am. Anyone know if the 5 hr time-estimate for the oath ceremony is realistic? When I went for my mum's oath-ceremony a couple of years ago, there were about a 100 people being sworn in and it was done...

Ditto for me. Had my interview today - I went massively overprepared with all kinds of documents. Mine was a tricky case because I had a single continuous absence of almost 11 months - this break was because of INS delays in processing my I-131 - and being told not return until it was processed...

My Interview is at 7:30am! I'm not too happy about that - People tend to be grumpy at such early hours, and mine is a fairly complicated case requiring all the latitude I can get.

Me too!! today. What an unusual and lucky day.

Just let the officer know about all trips since filing N400 at the interview. When did you get your IL? - would help to see that in your signature :)

Keeping this alive... I tried an infopass today - nothing useful. He just told me that I had gotten on the queue for an interview "only" in October 2007 (presumably my FP and name-check was complete then), so it might be a couple of months more till I get the IL! I'm hoping that he's off by a...

I got the same letter from Visa too. I'm astounded that such a thing could delay citizenship when it is a civil matter, and that too where the only possible party at fault is the credit card company. I agree with Citizentobe if this can be proved it should be grounds for a class action against...

I'd say renew it. As you mention yourself - it's always good to have a valid passport in case of emergency. You don't have to go to NYC, I did it by mail, and got it back in a few days. The Indian Embassy in NYC is very efficient - I've never been disappointed with their service in all my years...

Sorry to hear this - I understand what you're going through because I was in the same situation several years ago. My sis got married so that she could be on the path to GC and citizenship, and then sponsor our mother. So the only full-proof way out of this is for you to get your citizenship...

I had it mixed up, Right you are!

"Like a hare?" With your kind of timeline, it looks more like the turtle is strapped to a scramjet engine (Mach 10 - I believe). Lucky you! :)

Soontobe: Welcome.....to the machine! (most of you probably got the reference. For those who dont, it's from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" a work of genius which seems strangely appropriate to this USCIS experience) Looks like you, oroper, and I are neck to neck with our Priority Dates...

Heck, I never even heard about Selective Service in all my 24 yrs here in the U.S until applying for citizenship last year. I came to the U.S when I was 19 on an F1 student visa and was on the F1 all through my 20s until I got my Green card when I was 33. Since USCIS knows better than anyone...

Congratulations! This restores my faith in Priority Dates :) (see my previous post)

Sleek who has a PD of 31st May still hasn't gotten an interview letter (as of his post of 31st Jan), while your PD of 9th July has. I don't understand this at all. I wish more of the readers of this thread with Boston D.O and May/June/July/Aug PDs (and I'm sure there are) would post their...

Congratulations! :) So now we have a concrete data-point of VSC-Boston serving a PD of 7/9/2007. I would not have expected this given the May 18th date they put on their website a little more than a week ago. ml_boston - did you do anything special to expedite the process?

Compared to Boston, NYC D.O looks great. I wish I lived there! Also, on the few occasions that I've landed in JFK, IOs there have been very polite. Boston Airport IOs have for the most part been quite nasty. I hope the airport Immigration Officers are a different lot from the ones that...

The relative merits of the Indian vs U.S educational systems is very interesting but probably out of the scope of this forum. So I'll just say a bit about it's connection to U.S immigration and economic competetiveness. First I agree with most of the points that geetha1 made about what's...