Approval from Dallas DO in 3 months

buster

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I went for my interview today, got approved and have oath ceremony on 4/22/2005, that makes my whole process over 3 months, Dallas must be one of the quickest judging by this, my interview experience is posted below and thanks everyone for posting to this board, hope everyone has as good or better experience in future.

My dates are as follows at Dallas DO:

PD: January 3rd 2005
FD: February 1st 2005
Interview: April 5th 2005
Oath: April 22nd 2005

Interview was easy, whole process took about 10 minutes. I arrived about 10 minutes before my interview, took some time to get in the door then I sat down and they called my name about 5 or 10 mins later. The lady was very professional, a friendly lady, but more professional. Started going through my application and asked questions that were in the app, as we were going through the app she would initial and stamp another form she was writing on, and I noticed that she marked my N652 as passed the test and "Congratulations! Your application has been reccomended for approval", then she put 3 pieces of paper in front of me, finished going through app and had me sign the last piece of the app, then she said "this photo is going to be on your naturilization certificate so sign first middle and last name, then we went through civics and history test, asked me 6 questions out of 10, I got all 6 right, asked me to read a sentence, and then write some other sentence, then congratulated me for passing and being approved, one of the 3 papers she put in front of me had my name and DOB which she asked me to review as that was going to be what went onto my naturilization certificate, then she asked me what county I lived in ... I told her and she said the next oath ceremony was on April 22nd could I make it - I said definately yes! She printed out form N445 with the oath notice and the date when I need to appear. Then told her that my wife and I are taking an extended overseas vacation to Europe and that it would be nice to travel on US Passport, thanked her for being professional and I left. All in all a very pleasant process.
 
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hey, buster,
on what basis did you apply? family, military, or 5 year?
it was pretty quick!

thanks.
 
ania, I applied based on family, but that was only because I wanted to apply at the time I did - as of next month I am eligible to apply on the 5 year standard. I dont think speed has anything to do with on what basis you apply, its just the fact that Dallas is moving quickly now - one guy I know was at FP same day as me with same PD, his interview is at the end of April.
 
Buster

Buster -
Congrats!!!!!
Did you have any traffic tickets that you have mentioned on N-400 ?
Just curious...
Thanks
 
Kind_SD said:
Buster -
Congrats!!!!!
Did you have any traffic tickets that you have mentioned on N-400 ?
Just curious...
Thanks

Thanks!

Not at all, I dont have any traffic tickets or any tickets for that matter so none were mentioned, however when the officer was going over the app with me she asked if I had ever been fined for anything, EXCLUDING TRAFFIC TICKETS, methinks that question has to do with being fined for DUI or vandalism something like that. Based on that, and the fact she made it a point to exclude traffic tickets, I dont think you need to mention it.
 
buster said:
ania, I applied based on family, but that was only because I wanted to apply at the time I did - as of next month I am eligible to apply on the 5 year standard. I dont think speed has anything to do with on what basis you apply, its just the fact that Dallas is moving quickly now - one guy I know was at FP same day as me with same PD, his interview is at the end of April.
did you apply 90 days prior to your time completion or did you wait, also do you get your citizenship certificate at oath ? or is it mailed.
 
machismo said:
did you apply 90 days prior to your time completion or did you wait, also do you get your citizenship certificate at oath ? or is it mailed.

I was actually eligable to apply back in July 2003, but I waited until January 2005 - dont ask me why I waited so long, maybe I just wasnt ready or I like to procrastinate.

You get the citizenship certificate at the oath ceremony, and you can apply for your passport after the ceremony where they have booths set up.
 
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