lahoritamia
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My interview experience/San Bernadino CA DO
I just want to let you all know about my interview.
I had my interview appointment for 11:35 a.m., I arrived @ 11:20 a.m. to the San Bernardino, CA DO, I was instructed to go to the second floor and to go up to the receptionist and drop off my interview letter, I did and then I had a seat and waited, and waited and waited for almost 2 hrs.,(it was the longest wait of my life, I had my baby sick
and I had a doctors appointment that I needed to take him). Anyways, I was finally called in @ 1:25 p.m. by an female officer(Asian), she greeted me and directed me to her office. In there she had me do the swearing and told me to have a sit. Then she asked me, since you are applying for citizenship based on your marriage, what other documents you brought since you submitted your application? I got my documents ready, I only brought our home grant deed, bank statement, water contract and tax transcripts. She also asked me how many kids I and I said one, but how come you mentioned three on your application, I said the other two are my stepsons(I did noted that on the application), then she asked to see the supporting documents,(officer did not looked at tax docs). She asked my about my name change and had me sign one document(in duplicate), these are going to be sent to the court to make legal my name change(I went back to my maden name). I was asked about employment information, just if I was still employed there.Then she moved to marital status for my husband, asked about how many times he has been married and so on. Officer started the "general questions" section, question one have you ever claimed to be a USA citizen? I said no, she asked not even before you came to this interview? I said no, then she asked not even before you obtained your LPR? I said no, she insisted not even when trying to enter USA? I said no, the she said since you speak very good English ( I didn't appreciated her nodding her head) . She finished all the questions, questions about tickets were asked as well. I was aske what is the Constitution and if I support it, I said yes. Then officer started the civics test, five questions got them all right, these were:
Who is the commander-in-chief of the US Army and Navy?
Who nominates judges for the supreme court?
How many terms can a president serve?
Where does freedom of spech comes?
Who elects the congress?
She said now write this sentence:
We have a very clean house.
She printed test scores and have me sign the paper. She then gave me the N-652 letter, Congratulations! you have passed the test and just wait for your Oath letter, I might take from 2 to 3 mos., I hope I does not take that long. The interview took about twenty minutes only.
Thank you all for the help, I was worried about not having any documents of my first trip out of the US and that they might ask for it. Officer did ask about time spent outside of the US, but no supporting docs where ask for.
I wish you all the best, just be confident and do not volunteer any information, this sometimes can start trouble.
lahoritamia
I just want to let you all know about my interview.
I had my interview appointment for 11:35 a.m., I arrived @ 11:20 a.m. to the San Bernardino, CA DO, I was instructed to go to the second floor and to go up to the receptionist and drop off my interview letter, I did and then I had a seat and waited, and waited and waited for almost 2 hrs.,(it was the longest wait of my life, I had my baby sick
and I had a doctors appointment that I needed to take him). Anyways, I was finally called in @ 1:25 p.m. by an female officer(Asian), she greeted me and directed me to her office. In there she had me do the swearing and told me to have a sit. Then she asked me, since you are applying for citizenship based on your marriage, what other documents you brought since you submitted your application? I got my documents ready, I only brought our home grant deed, bank statement, water contract and tax transcripts. She also asked me how many kids I and I said one, but how come you mentioned three on your application, I said the other two are my stepsons(I did noted that on the application), then she asked to see the supporting documents,(officer did not looked at tax docs). She asked my about my name change and had me sign one document(in duplicate), these are going to be sent to the court to make legal my name change(I went back to my maden name). I was asked about employment information, just if I was still employed there.Then she moved to marital status for my husband, asked about how many times he has been married and so on. Officer started the "general questions" section, question one have you ever claimed to be a USA citizen? I said no, she asked not even before you came to this interview? I said no, then she asked not even before you obtained your LPR? I said no, she insisted not even when trying to enter USA? I said no, the she said since you speak very good English ( I didn't appreciated her nodding her head) . She finished all the questions, questions about tickets were asked as well. I was aske what is the Constitution and if I support it, I said yes. Then officer started the civics test, five questions got them all right, these were:Who is the commander-in-chief of the US Army and Navy?
Who nominates judges for the supreme court?
How many terms can a president serve?
Where does freedom of spech comes?
Who elects the congress?
She said now write this sentence:
We have a very clean house.
She printed test scores and have me sign the paper. She then gave me the N-652 letter, Congratulations! you have passed the test and just wait for your Oath letter, I might take from 2 to 3 mos., I hope I does not take that long. The interview took about twenty minutes only.
Thank you all for the help, I was worried about not having any documents of my first trip out of the US and that they might ask for it. Officer did ask about time spent outside of the US, but no supporting docs where ask for.
I wish you all the best, just be confident and do not volunteer any information, this sometimes can start trouble.
lahoritamia
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