Hi guys,
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FINALLY MY WIFE AND ME DID THE INTERVIEW AND PASSED LAST FRIDAYYYY.
Well, I am going to try to summarize and help somebody has the interview in Santa Ana, CA
My wife and me had interview at 10:35 and went there about 9:40. There is a parking in Parton st and the building you have to go is the one has a big 34 blue number . The parking was $12.
The first thing is you get when you get in the building is the security.
Don´t bring your cell phone with you but take a hand watch. My wife and me left the cell phone in my card and did not have a hand watch so We could not know the time inside.
Once you pass the first security control turn left and get elevators till second floor. Turn right and another security control. They ask you for the interview letter in order to see it and send you to drop off your IL in a tray located in a window. We have waiting about 40 min to be called because you were there early.
My wife was called first and me after 10 min. My IO was a man very methodic or sistematic. He had a hard orient pronuntiation and I had some problem to understand him. He started to talk to me nice to break the ice and of course to evaluate my english. I took a big folder full of papers. He did not request anything. My advice is that it is better to take everything with you. Even thought I had a traffic citation I did not mention in my application and told to the IO. He told me It does not matter and they do not look minor infractions. But He liked my honesty. I encourage you to check this link. It helps me a lot to know about the things to bring with you to the interview:
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?288288-Documents-needed-for-Naturalization
However my wife was very smoothly. I was in a room close to my wife finished my interview and she did not yet. BTW the IO´s can see if others IO´s finish the interview because he ask for my wife and told me she was still in the interview. He thought that it was rare. When I signed and went with me to the exit we saw my wife´s room and he ask to the other IO is something was wrong. He was speaking and smiling with my wife and then with me. He told us that liked to talk with people of different countries and that is what he likes of him job. BTW, He told my wife salary of president ($400000/month) and there is a website to see it.
BTW, I read a lot of post about sign the N400 application in cursive with your full name. . Well I did so and the IO ask me if it was my sign. I explained that it was not my regular signature. He make me sign in a piece of paper and after I did my signature told me that "it was what I wanted to see". He made sign again in the N400 with my regular signature and erased the full name in cursive.
Mi wife´s IO did not tell her anything about it. He told her to sign with the same signature even thought in the naturalization certificate. So I thing that it is better to sign with your regular sign.
The civics, reading and writing very easy. Where is the White House. The White House is in Washington D.C.
He gave us the N-652 with recommendation for approval.
I would like to thank you to all of you that helped me a lot of with the posts.
Well, if everything is fine, the next step is oath letter (I hope in 3-4 weeks) and ceremony.
GOOD LUCK
Application Sent on 03/26/2010
Received on 03/29/2010
Check Cleared on 04/12/2010
received NOA (receipt) on 4/14/2010
RFE (checked online) sent on 4/20/2010
FP letter received on 4/24/2010
FP date 5/12/2010 (done)
IL received on 05/24/2010
file transfer to local Office on 05/25/2010
Interview passed on 07/09/2010
.
FINALLY MY WIFE AND ME DID THE INTERVIEW AND PASSED LAST FRIDAYYYY.
Well, I am going to try to summarize and help somebody has the interview in Santa Ana, CA
My wife and me had interview at 10:35 and went there about 9:40. There is a parking in Parton st and the building you have to go is the one has a big 34 blue number . The parking was $12.
The first thing is you get when you get in the building is the security.
Don´t bring your cell phone with you but take a hand watch. My wife and me left the cell phone in my card and did not have a hand watch so We could not know the time inside.
Once you pass the first security control turn left and get elevators till second floor. Turn right and another security control. They ask you for the interview letter in order to see it and send you to drop off your IL in a tray located in a window. We have waiting about 40 min to be called because you were there early.
My wife was called first and me after 10 min. My IO was a man very methodic or sistematic. He had a hard orient pronuntiation and I had some problem to understand him. He started to talk to me nice to break the ice and of course to evaluate my english. I took a big folder full of papers. He did not request anything. My advice is that it is better to take everything with you. Even thought I had a traffic citation I did not mention in my application and told to the IO. He told me It does not matter and they do not look minor infractions. But He liked my honesty. I encourage you to check this link. It helps me a lot to know about the things to bring with you to the interview:
http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?288288-Documents-needed-for-Naturalization
However my wife was very smoothly. I was in a room close to my wife finished my interview and she did not yet. BTW the IO´s can see if others IO´s finish the interview because he ask for my wife and told me she was still in the interview. He thought that it was rare. When I signed and went with me to the exit we saw my wife´s room and he ask to the other IO is something was wrong. He was speaking and smiling with my wife and then with me. He told us that liked to talk with people of different countries and that is what he likes of him job. BTW, He told my wife salary of president ($400000/month) and there is a website to see it.
BTW, I read a lot of post about sign the N400 application in cursive with your full name. . Well I did so and the IO ask me if it was my sign. I explained that it was not my regular signature. He make me sign in a piece of paper and after I did my signature told me that "it was what I wanted to see". He made sign again in the N400 with my regular signature and erased the full name in cursive.
Mi wife´s IO did not tell her anything about it. He told her to sign with the same signature even thought in the naturalization certificate. So I thing that it is better to sign with your regular sign.
The civics, reading and writing very easy. Where is the White House. The White House is in Washington D.C.
He gave us the N-652 with recommendation for approval.
I would like to thank you to all of you that helped me a lot of with the posts.
Well, if everything is fine, the next step is oath letter (I hope in 3-4 weeks) and ceremony.
GOOD LUCK
Application Sent on 03/26/2010
Received on 03/29/2010
Check Cleared on 04/12/2010
received NOA (receipt) on 4/14/2010
RFE (checked online) sent on 4/20/2010
FP letter received on 4/24/2010
FP date 5/12/2010 (done)
IL received on 05/24/2010
file transfer to local Office on 05/25/2010
Interview passed on 07/09/2010