Citizenship Interview Tomorrow Morning! Nervous!!! (Fairfax, VA)

Yea they do same day oaths,although not for dc residents from what I heard..... good luck!you got this! No worries
 
I don't want to write a whole essay, but I will summarize my experience.
Got in at 8:40 AM (appt at 9:20), got called in about 10:30. IO went over my application, stopped for a second on the trips taken since getting my permanent resident card because I lived in Brazil for 4 years (this was 8 years ago), which is what I was really nervous about. She then continued going through the application, gave me the english and civis tests, and told me to go back to the waiting room since she needed to verify something (I assume it was about my long trip abroad). At this point I hadn't gotten my "Congratulations you passed the interview" paper or even a congratulations from her. She came back to the waiting area about 10 minutes later and gave me the Congratulations paper along with the time of the oath ceremony, which was at 2pm, but required us to be there at 1pm. But she told me to pay attention to my cell phone in case there are any changes...so i'm thinking..great it's STILL not over. So I spent another 3 hours (from 11am to 2pm) worrying that they may call me saying I didn't pass. However, I never got the call. A little before 1 they started calling names. When they called my name they showed me the naturalization certificate copy and had me verify that everything was correct on it and then they handed me a packet with voting registration and passport application information, along with a folder to put our certificate in when we got it.
About 20 minutes later we got called to go into the Oath Room where we had the ceremony.. It started at 2. Strangely it was emotional for me haha. No i did not cry but maybe almost.
The director came in and did the Oath and the Pledge of Allegiance with us. She then congratulated us and she seemed to be genuinely happy for all of us. After watching a couple of short videos she passed out the certificates and told us that we had to go celebrate today.
So even though I was scared about that trip and it apparently was a tad bit of an issue, everything went fine, and I applied Feb 28th and became a citizen July 27th for a total of 5 months exactly, so I'd say it went pretty fast.
I AM A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN!! (already registered to vote. yay)
 
iwant2bAmerican said:
I don't want to write a whole essay, but I will summarize my experience.
Got in at 8:40 AM (appt at 9:20), got called in about 10:30. IO went over my application, stopped for a second on the trips taken since getting my permanent resident card because I lived in Brazil for 4 years (this was 8 years ago), which is what I was really nervous about. She then continued going through the application, gave me the english and civis tests, and told me to go back to the waiting room since she needed to verify something (I assume it was about my long trip abroad). At this point I hadn't gotten my "Congratulations you passed the interview" paper or even a congratulations from her. She came back to the waiting area about 10 minutes later and gave me the Congratulations paper along with the time of the oath ceremony, which was at 2pm, but required us to be there at 1pm. But she told me to pay attention to my cell phone in case there are any changes...so i'm thinking..great it's STILL not over. So I spent another 3 hours (from 11am to 2pm) worrying that they may call me saying I didn't pass. However, I never got the call. A little before 1 they started calling names. When they called my name they showed me the naturalization certificate copy and had me verify that everything was correct on it and then they handed me a packet with voting registration and passport application information, along with a folder to put our certificate in when we got it.
About 20 minutes later we got called to go into the Oath Room where we had the ceremony.. It started at 2. Strangely it was emotional for me haha. No i did not cry but maybe almost.
The director came in and did the Oath and the Pledge of Allegiance with us. She then congratulated us and she seemed to be genuinely happy for all of us. After watching a couple of short videos she passed out the certificates and told us that we had to go celebrate today.
So even though I was scared about that trip and it apparently was a tad bit of an issue, everything went fine, and I applied Feb 28th and became a citizen July 27th for a total of 5 months exactly, so I'd say it went pretty fast.
I AM A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN!! (already registered to vote. yay)
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lol thanks for the essay;)..........congrats
 
Funny story, thought i was going CRAZY for a second. I noticed the picture on my certificate of naturalization wasn't the one I sent in with the n-400 application, and it wasn't the same as the one I brought in to the interview..so I hurt my brain trying to figure out where they got that (along with my signature on the side which was completely different from the way i signed my name on the back of the picture I sent in) and i read on the instruction form "USCIS (biometrics) may also take your photograph and signature" and I remembered the guy did take a picture of me there. I was seriously confused for a few minutes.
 
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