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Can you please, share your timeline experience to get a citizenship in Miami, Florida. I need to submit my N-400 in February 2005 and was wondering how much time will it take to complete the process. thanks a lot
 
Miami's processing date for N-400 is 4/30/03, i.e. at present the duration is roughly 15-18 months. Florida in general is very very slow, may be with an exception of Jacksonville. But it is not to say that it will remain like this forever. Since you don't apply until Feb. 2005, just keep monitoring the processing dates at uscis.gov. They update these around the middle of month.
 
My personal experience is 21 months of delay without
a final decision or the oath ceremony being scheduled
after passing the citizenship test at the
interview, without any reason for delay or progress to
report. No foreign name, from Canada, no record,
so it should have been easy.

The Miami office appears completely fouled up in
its processing. After 2 tries at correction they still
sent yet another permanent resident card for my son
incorrectly identifying him as female. It takes a year
to wait for the "corrected" version each time.

I have heard that there are many, many people that
this office has put in limbo for citizenship, due to
bureaucratic mistakes, resulting in their waiting the
rest of their lives for their oath ceremonies to
be scheduled, through no fault of their own, according
to attorneys who no longer take on citizenship cases
for this reason. I was also told by a friendly adjudicator
that often errors are made, and affected files are then
misplaced, or languish somewhere without anyone to followup
on them. Sometimes they are then even deemed abandoned
and the applicant never even contacted.

When I was making a status inquiry in person, which basically
tells you nothing other than what you already know - that
nothing is happening - I encountered a number of people who
had made numerous trips to find out the status of their oath
scheduling multiple times, without any end in sight. We are talking
years here.

I would never have applied in Miami if I had known this beforehand,
but rather waited until I had moved out of state.
 
I know of someone too who had applied within Miami District. He never received the FP notice and was at the same address all the time. Only thing he ever got after 6 mos that his case is being considered abandoned since he did Not apprear for the FP and did not re-schedule either. All the motions to re-open were unsuccessful. The poor guy wasted almost 1-2 years doing that. After that, an attorney suggested him to re-apply and cough up the filing fees again.
 
I had my citizenship interview on August 18, 2003 - in a week it will be one year anniversary:(
...Still waiting for the invitation to the ceremony in Miami!
Anybody else is in a similar situation?
 
Miami N-400 timeline

Hi,
I live in South Florida and applied to Miami. I applied late Nov -03. My P.D is Dec 2-nd 2003. F.P completed in Feb -04. Received my interview letter in June 04. My interview is scheduled next month, Sep- 16-th. Will let you know how it goes after my interview.
 
Beware what they have you sign at the examination. Sometimes
a piece of paper will be folded over to hide what the top of
the form says, and you will be asked to give a signature as part of
"testing the ability to follow instructions in English." There
is a question as to whether this was the form waiving the
requirement to have the petitioner's case adjudicated within 120 days.
When asked to be able to read other forms that were put in front
before signing, wa stold, "Hurry up. We don't have time for that. You're
not following directions."
 
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