Hope this is helpful for people who want to become US citizen by naturalization. I had my interview (Charlotte DO) last week and now I am a proud US citizen. The interview and the oath ceremony were on the same day.I was at the office 30 min. before the interview (morning) and an officer called me in 15 min. after my scheduled appointment. Everything finished in 10-15 min. Asked me to produce my GC, passprt, Driver's License,etc. Gave me, my N-400 application and asked me to go over it and to see if everything is current. She asked me why I want to become a citizen of the US. Asked all the questions which were on the N-400 - crime, communist party,etc.Cofirmed with me about the trip overseas. She didn't look at my passport,GC,etc. I just placed them on her desk.I signed the N-400 at two places, signed the photos, and she gave me a couple of documents to sign. She asked me 5 questions out of the 100 questions from the USCIS website.I got everything right. Wrote a simple sentence - "I want to be a citizen of the United States." Read two sentences from a paper she produced.She said, that I have passed the citizenship test and asked me to go back to the waiting room. She said, that another officer has to look over my paper work,file,etc. After one hour the second officer came to the waiting room and called out a few names and gave the letter about the oath ceremony. Mine was one of the names called out. The oath ceremony was in the afternoon - 3 hrs.later. The supervisor conducted the ceremony. It was a very sentimental, moving ceremony. She gave us a pep-talk about what it is to be an American Citizen - how to apply for passprt,etc. Another gentleman from Women's Voters League gave us instructions on how to register to vote. There were about 60+ people who took the oath that day. Some of them,like me had their interviews in the morning and some had theirs on different days. Altogether it took about 2 hrs. for the ceremony to finish. Good luck to all.
My Time Line for N- 400:
PD: 1/17/06
FP:3/21/06
IV & Oath: 05/06
My Time Line for N- 400:
PD: 1/17/06
FP:3/21/06
IV & Oath: 05/06
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