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honeyhappy

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Hi,
I have interview in regard to my application for N400 on May 5, 2007. I was wondering if USCIS will provide some sort of letter or stamp passport indicating that I my name has been processed for citizenship. In summary what I am trying to understand after interview at which stage USCIS will provid esome documentary proof suggesting that I am citizen.

Thanks.
 
Depends on your district office. At a few of them, you will be offered an oath ceremony on the day of the interview. In that case, you will get a "Certificate of Naturalization," which serves as proof of US citizenship.

At most locations, at the end of the interview, you will get a form that indicates whether or not your file is being recommended for citizenship. That is all you get. You will be invited to an oath ceremony at a later date.

You will get your certificate of naturalization at the oath ceremony. You only become a US citizen after you take the oath. Therefore, you only get any proof of citizenship after that.
 
No document until you are a citizen, no suggestion that you are a citizen until you are a citizen, being in the process of naturalization doesn't confer you any special status. You are not a citizen until you complete the oath. At that time they should give you the naturalization certificate. No stamp in the passport, nothing before that. Hey, I hope I made myself clear ;)

My 2 cents.
 
You do get Notices all along the way indicating what stage of N-400 processing you are at.

Why do you want this. You have no special status (other than "Permanent Resident") during the time your application for naturalization is being considered.

Once you take the oath, of course, you get a snazzy looking naturalization certificate.
 
Thanks for info. the reason I am looking for evidence of citizenship. I have applied for a job where citizenship is required and I ahve asked them all these questions and the result of all discussion is that after interview with USCIS and at the time of job interview I should prove that I am citizen.
Thanks.
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Well, you aren't a citizen until you take the oath. It would be very illegal for you to claim otherwise. Up until you finish that oath, you are still a Permanent Resident. The interview changes nothing, only the oath does.

If you want to show them that you expect to be a citizen, show them the various notices.

After we submitted our N-400s and well before we knew what our eventual timeline would be, my daughter was offered a a chance to apply for an internship that required citizenship. Before applying, we got agreement from the organization (a government agency) that she could apply, contingent on her obtaining her citizenship before the actual internship started. As part of that process, we sent notarized copies of one or more of the NOAs (as well as the text of the Child citizenship act). Luckily, my wife took the oath about 40 days before the internship started.
 
What Flydog said is absolutely correct.

Another possibility you may want to discuss with your employer is whether filing a "Declaration of Intention" (Form N300) is sufficient while you wait for your N400 to be processed. I don't think the N300 is really appropriate for someone who's already filed an N400 (what better way to show intention to become a citizen than to apply for naturalization?), but if that's something that may sway your potential employer, it may be worth a shot.
 
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