First of all, I wanted to thank all the members of this forum for their insight and support. This road did not feel as lonely as we all traveled it together.
I had my interview scheduled for October 20th at 11 AM. I showed up at the USCIS building at 10:30 AM and was instructed to drop off my interview letter on a box behind a door. I sat down and proceeded to wait. I was surrounded by applicants and struck plenty of conversations while waiting. There was a middle aged Chinese man on his third try!!! A Hispanic male who had failed the English language portion, etc etc. The "word" in the room from the applicants who had been interviewed was that the IO were extremely nice and helpful and I began to relax as I waited my turn.
I was called in at 12:11 PM by a nice African- American female in her mid 30s. She sore me in and proceeded to go rather quickly over my N-400, she started laughing with me after I had to add a "new" son who was born six weeks ago and asked how life was dealing with three kids. At this point, we started talking about our families and work fro about 15 minutes. She said we had to eventually finish the interview and asked me to read a sentence "I drive to work in a blue car".... then she made me write “The government has three branches"
She then asked me a few questions:
1.) How many stares on the flag?
2.) What do the 143 stripes signify?
3.) Where does Congress meet?
4.) Who is the President?
5.) What do we celebrate on the 4th of July? Here I answered Independence Day and BBQ (She laughed heartily)
That was it.... She told me we were done and handed me the pictures to be signed and the N-400 final part acknowledging the process was complete. She then handed me the form with the Approved option marked.
At this point I asked her about the Oath and whether there was the possibility of doing it the same day or at least soon. She explained to me that there was a new guideline that had taken away their access to the Oath dates and she could not even see them in her screen anymore.. She blames gov'mt bureaucracy.. Go figure!!!
She walked me out and I extended my hand to thank her for her time.....
I am now waiting for my OA and that should happen sometime on the next 4 weeks..... I pray that God will see you all through this process quickly and easily. God bless you all and God bless America.
I had my interview scheduled for October 20th at 11 AM. I showed up at the USCIS building at 10:30 AM and was instructed to drop off my interview letter on a box behind a door. I sat down and proceeded to wait. I was surrounded by applicants and struck plenty of conversations while waiting. There was a middle aged Chinese man on his third try!!! A Hispanic male who had failed the English language portion, etc etc. The "word" in the room from the applicants who had been interviewed was that the IO were extremely nice and helpful and I began to relax as I waited my turn.
I was called in at 12:11 PM by a nice African- American female in her mid 30s. She sore me in and proceeded to go rather quickly over my N-400, she started laughing with me after I had to add a "new" son who was born six weeks ago and asked how life was dealing with three kids. At this point, we started talking about our families and work fro about 15 minutes. She said we had to eventually finish the interview and asked me to read a sentence "I drive to work in a blue car".... then she made me write “The government has three branches"
She then asked me a few questions:
1.) How many stares on the flag?
2.) What do the 143 stripes signify?
3.) Where does Congress meet?
4.) Who is the President?
5.) What do we celebrate on the 4th of July? Here I answered Independence Day and BBQ (She laughed heartily)
That was it.... She told me we were done and handed me the pictures to be signed and the N-400 final part acknowledging the process was complete. She then handed me the form with the Approved option marked.
At this point I asked her about the Oath and whether there was the possibility of doing it the same day or at least soon. She explained to me that there was a new guideline that had taken away their access to the Oath dates and she could not even see them in her screen anymore.. She blames gov'mt bureaucracy.. Go figure!!!
She walked me out and I extended my hand to thank her for her time.....
I am now waiting for my OA and that should happen sometime on the next 4 weeks..... I pray that God will see you all through this process quickly and easily. God bless you all and God bless America.