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nyc_naturalizer

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I just saw this on the USCIS website. It's the first real sign I've seen that they've actually increased adjudicator staffing to deal with the naturalization backlog. I will gladly take my interview Sunday morning at 3am!!


Naturalization Interviews to be Conducted on Saturdays, Sundays and After Normal Business Hours on Weekdays

In Fiscal Year 2007, USCIS received a significant increase in naturalization applications (Form N-400). To address the increase, USCIS is expanding work hours and adding staff to complete these filings within our processing time goals.

If you have received a notice from USCIS that your naturalization interview has been scheduled on a Saturday, Sunday, or after traditional business hours, the notice is correct and you should appear at the scheduled time.
 
nyc_naturalizer said:
I just saw this on the USCIS website. It's the first real sign I've seen that they've actually increased adjudicator staffing to deal with the naturalization backlog. I will gladly take my interview Sunday morning at 3am!!


Naturalization Interviews to be Conducted on Saturdays, Sundays and After Normal Business Hours on Weekdays

In Fiscal Year 2007, USCIS received a significant increase in naturalization applications (Form N-400). To address the increase, USCIS is expanding work hours and adding staff to complete these filings within our processing time goals.

If you have received a notice from USCIS that your naturalization interview has been scheduled on a Saturday, Sunday, or after traditional business hours, the notice is correct and you should appear at the scheduled time.
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Not so sure if this is happening in NYC DO.
 
nyc_naturalizer said:
I just saw this on the USCIS website. It's the first real sign I've seen that they've actually increased adjudicator staffing to deal with the naturalization backlog. I will gladly take my interview Sunday morning at 3am!!
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If it came to it, I'd camp out in front of 26 Federal Plaza if that was a condition of getting an interview!
 
Actually, I like the Idea. The problem is I don't see much of people from San Diego on this board or they are hidden.
Walk-In Interview, haha...
 
I think the media and congress should keep the heat on the name check. There has been quite a few articles in the past months showing the irrelevance of name checks in most cases. To me the argument that no potential criminal must be naturalized, and that somewhat immigration is the biggest tool against international crime doesn't hold a lot of water. Granted that it is a time that the government has a chance to scrutinize a person, but there should be some time limits about how long you should take to scrutinize the person. The ombudsman and many others have pointed that long delays in name check serve no purpose, if the person is truly a criminal, then this just buys this person more time in the US and if the person most likely is not a criminal then it is just screwing this person's life for no good reason.

Anyway, let's hope some enlightened person realizes that it might be more reasonable from a risk management point of view to process immigration requests promptly, and let the police and FBI focus on criminals, not just try to get the immigration service play the police role (and many times be more cold hearted at that than the police itself).
 
I have been pressing all the senators from my state and the representatives from my district. So far they are very cold feet about getting something done. However, when it is time to make a speech about national security, they want the center stage. If you let someone who is a potential threat stick around for many years, then it creates a lack of national security. Apparently, the cold attitude of those born here thus not spur them to action to demand change. They only think it affects the immigrants.
And by the way, they are decendants of immigrants

Huracan said:
I think the media and congress should keep the heat on the name check. There has been quite a few articles QUOTE]
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No respite for name check victims

Hi Guys,

I dont want to be a naysayer but this does not help namecheck victims unless the FBI speeds up name check process.

USCIS will process clearcut applications not stuck in name check in record time and I think they have been doing it at pretty ok pace (my wifes process too 7.5 months start to finish).

According to them and even NY times the name check cases are 1% of the applications ..so that is say 20,000 cases which is a very small % so they will not do anything about it. Once they process sizable amount of straight cases they will not have any reason to expedite name checks. Unfortunately we are in for a long wait.
I hope I am wrong about it.

Regards
 
Feliz-LA said:
if anybody gets such interview date or time - please post here, i can't believe it would actually happen.
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I'm not sure if this was already a commonplace occurrence in Boston, but I've seen a couple of members of the Boston thread report Saturday interviews.
 
My friend has a saturday interview in Denver next month. also, i'm not sure if this was already a working day before the announcement.
 
There is an Associated Press article about this announcement:



U.S. stretches hours to help immigrants become citizens

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration has begun holding weekend and after-hours interviews for immigrants wanting to be Americans, responding to a heavy workload caused by last summer's flood of citizenship applications.

Citizenship and Immigration Services, a Homeland Security Department agency, has begun holding the interviews — the final step before taking the citizenship oath — on Saturdays and Sundays and after business hours on weekdays. In the interviews, done by appointment only, immigrants take their citizenship test and answer any lingering questions about their applications.

The weekend interviews are so extraordinary that the agency posted a notice on its website to reassure applicants a Saturday or Sunday appointment are not a mistake.

The agency received 1.4 million naturalization applications in the 2007 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, overwhelming agency workers and extending the time it takes to become a citizen.

Nearly half a million applications arrived just before the fee to apply to be an American increased from $330 to $595, plus an $80 fingerprinting fee.

The agency has been criticized for precipitating the flood of applications with the fee increase and then failing to be fully prepared to handle it. Because of the many applications, some immigrants may not become citizens in time to vote in November's elections.

The agency has responded that the July 2007 spike was unprecedented and it has been taking steps to deal with the increase. Emilio Gonzalez, the agency's outgoing director, wrote in a blog item posted late Thursday that more than half of all the citizenship applications received in June and July of last year will be done by Sept. 30. He said some who applied after July have become citizens. His agency is predicting 14-to-16 month waits for citizenship.
 
This is great and all, but I hope they increase the number of oath ceremonies as well. We don't want to see one bottleneck traded in for another. But - I reiterate - this is great news indeed.
 
nyc n400 Interview letter received

Folks just to :
Recd Date : 7/23/08
Interview : 05/22/08

Vorpal ..have been reading ur posts for some months ..patience ..
This Friday will be ur day .

They are asking for selective service registration ?
I did know anything about this ..any ideas or remedies ?

Regards

nycn400
 
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