Citizenship interview at Los Angeles
All :
With great joy and pride I can say that I made it through the citizenship journey today.
I had the interview scheduled for 7.45 am at the Federal building today.
Parked the car in the parking garage just opposite the front entrance of the building.(for 13.20$). The parking garage is underneath the shopping area called Los Angeles Mall which has several small restaurants, a CVS pharmacy and a bookstore.I found out later as we were driving ,that there are parking spots for 6 $ just 2 blocks away (Los Angeles St and 3 rd street) so if you want to save about 7.20$ and you don’t mind some walking it is a good idea!
Reached the building around 6:45 am and waited in line. We got into the building at about 7 am, cleared security quickly and made it to the 6th floor where the citizenship interview is held. Important item to note is that your spouse or friend can accompany you all the way till the interview hall. Thought I should post that as it helps people make decisions on logistics as it did for me and my husband.Also cell phones is fine at this location.
Waited for about 30 minutes in the hall and I was called in promptly (at my interview time) and was led into the interview room.
After taking the oath of speaking the truth, the interviewer went through the entire application to confirm the information. As I had traveled after applying, I had an updated sheet for her (thanks to this forum for that!). She appreciated that and jotted down the information on the original application.
Then she asked me 10 questions all from the sample questions.
1] Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court? A- John Roberts
2] How long do we elect a member of the house of representative ?
3] 3 braches of the government ?
4] Color of the stars on the flag ?
5] Why did the pilgrims come to America?
6] Who becomes the president if the president dies? And so on…
She also asked me to read and write a sentence.With that done, she congratulated me and said I had passed.
The interview took about 15 minutes in total.
After that another piece of good news. She told me that if I waited for 2 hours I could collect my oath letter !! That was music to my ears.So collected my Oath letter and I am happy to say that my oath ceremony is on the 20 th Dec 2007 at LACC.
I would like to thank the forum for their help .!Will hang on this forum if you have questions.
Thanks and good luck all !