I just had my interview. Since I've benifitted from all of your post, I figured I should post my experience as well:
I actually made two mistakes on my application, one was not including a short form of my name in the section asking for any other names that you use. The other was not including minor traffic tickets (speeding, parking) in the section on arrests/citations.
About a month after applying, I sent a brief letter to VSC explaining that I had ommitted both and giving the details. Also during FP, the operator asks if you use any other names and at that point I gave them the short form as well. I was worried that this would delay my application, but it turns out that it didn't.
Note: the on-line status disappered just before I got the interview letter.
I arrived for the interview 30mins ahead of time as the letter states that you are not supposed to show up any earlier. Good thing I didn't, I had to wait about 2 hours. Moreover, the letter states that waiting space is limited and that I shouldn't bring anyone else unless nessary for the interview, so I had my wife drop me off.
Well its seems that I was the only one who had read this! People had their wife, kids, etc... Moreover, they did actually have lots of space. Anyways, I was finally called in - I said a quick prayer to myself and went in...
The interview itself seemed to be over in about 10 minutes!
The officer first went over the application line by line, speaking fairly quickly. Most of my answers were Yes or No. When it came to the name section and the traffic violations, I had printed off new pages with all the corrections on them - so the officer just hole punched them and added it to the application. I was worried that the omission on the name section would cause delays, but turns out that they had received my letter and there was no issue.
I also had reprinted the section on travel outside the US (since I had made a trip outside the US since my application), which was also attached to the application.
He asked four or five of the questions off the standard questions list: how many sentors are there, who is governor of MA, etc.
He then stamped approved on the application and gave me a letter saying that I was approved. I waited another 30mins, and then they gave me a letter with the oath appointment. Yippie!!!
Now I just have to wait for the Oath ceremony. Good luck everyone!
Timeline:
08/25/2005 PD
08/29/2005 NOA
10/29/2005 FP
01/09/2006 Interview
02/17/2006 Oath
I actually made two mistakes on my application, one was not including a short form of my name in the section asking for any other names that you use. The other was not including minor traffic tickets (speeding, parking) in the section on arrests/citations.
About a month after applying, I sent a brief letter to VSC explaining that I had ommitted both and giving the details. Also during FP, the operator asks if you use any other names and at that point I gave them the short form as well. I was worried that this would delay my application, but it turns out that it didn't.
Note: the on-line status disappered just before I got the interview letter.
I arrived for the interview 30mins ahead of time as the letter states that you are not supposed to show up any earlier. Good thing I didn't, I had to wait about 2 hours. Moreover, the letter states that waiting space is limited and that I shouldn't bring anyone else unless nessary for the interview, so I had my wife drop me off.
Well its seems that I was the only one who had read this! People had their wife, kids, etc... Moreover, they did actually have lots of space. Anyways, I was finally called in - I said a quick prayer to myself and went in...
The interview itself seemed to be over in about 10 minutes!
The officer first went over the application line by line, speaking fairly quickly. Most of my answers were Yes or No. When it came to the name section and the traffic violations, I had printed off new pages with all the corrections on them - so the officer just hole punched them and added it to the application. I was worried that the omission on the name section would cause delays, but turns out that they had received my letter and there was no issue.
I also had reprinted the section on travel outside the US (since I had made a trip outside the US since my application), which was also attached to the application.
He asked four or five of the questions off the standard questions list: how many sentors are there, who is governor of MA, etc.
He then stamped approved on the application and gave me a letter saying that I was approved. I waited another 30mins, and then they gave me a letter with the oath appointment. Yippie!!!
Now I just have to wait for the Oath ceremony. Good luck everyone!
Timeline:
08/25/2005 PD
08/29/2005 NOA
10/29/2005 FP
01/09/2006 Interview
02/17/2006 Oath