Minneapolis/St. Paul MN - N-400 Timeline

Hi All:

I hope all is going well in your cases. I have a question related to your MN experiences.

I received my Interview Letter (Request for Applicant to Appear for Naturalization Initial Interview) today and my Question is as follows:

Some background: I have been living in North Dakota for a long time. When I got my GreenCard, my fingerprints were taken in North Dakota. Then, I went to Bloomington, Minnesota for the interview.

In my N-400 application, my fingerprints were taken in North Dakota too. But, this time, my interview is also scheduled in North Dakota (actually it is the same place I went for FP appointment - 10 mins from my house).

At the top of my interview letter it says that "Please come to ....... , North Dakota" -- this is where FP done, its FBI building actually
At the bottom of the letter it says that "USCIS Office Address: ... Metro Drive, Bloomington, MN" -- this is where I went to GreenCard Interview some years ago

Now the question is that WHY the address for interview location and the address for local office contact given in the IL are different?

Has anyone have similar experience?

Thanks,
dakota2011
 
My wife had her interview last Friday. She was told that she would need to wait "several" months for the oath due to the backlog for oath ceremonies. Greedy federal judges in Minnesota will not allow USCIS officers to administer the oath. On top of that they want off in the summer. What a sham.
 
@ brb2, Conglatulations for the interview but on the other hand how long is "several months"? This is just ridiculous for the judicially to hold people even when they are done with USCIS process!
@nrsesh, Conglatulations, you are probably one of the luckiest in MN to not only get an oath but the same day! Please post your experiences if you guys dont mind. Thanks.
@santurn, Good luck tomorrow, please post your experiences and especially if you can get an idea how long is this dreaded oath wait, thanks.

brb2 said:
My wife had her interview last Friday. She was told that she would need to wait "several" months for the oath due to the backlog for oath ceremonies. Greedy federal judges in Minnesota will not allow USCIS officers to administer the oath. On top of that they want off in the summer. What a sham.
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@Kahuni98 nrsesh is from Wisconsin. Wisconsin residents who are interviewed in St. Paul receive oath same day but not MN residents interviewed in St. Paul. Those WI residents interviewed in Milwaukee have to wait for oath ceremony like MN residents. So those on the border of MN but in WI benefit when they have interview in MN. Bottom line, residents of MN have to wait for the oath. Currently the wait time seems to be 3 months. Thanks federal judges in MN. I hope you will enjoy your summer break!

kahuni98 said:
@ brb2, Conglatulations for the interview but on the other hand how long is "several months"? This is just ridiculous for the judicially to hold people even when they are done with USCIS process!
@nrsesh, Conglatulations, you are probably one of the luckiest in MN to not only get an oath but the same day! Please post your experiences if you guys dont mind. Thanks.
@santurn, Good luck tomorrow, please post your experiences and especially if you can get an idea how long is this dreaded oath wait, thanks.
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Our online status changed today saying our case has been transferred to local office. Does anybody how soon we should be getting the IL? Our case has been transferred to Saint Paul office MN.

Also do everybody get YL before receiving the IL? My husband got one even before his case was transferred to local office but I did not get one.
 
Had my interview today

I had my interview today and it went fairly well. He told me he'd recommend me for approval, but on the letter he checked "decision cannot be made at this time", which I realized after leaving the building. I'am not sure what "decision cannot be made" means, but As for the the oath, sounds like its going to be a long wait. I asked if I could get in for tomorrow, lol....no dice....he sd they're backed up and it will be a couple of months.
 
kahuni98 said:
@ brb2, Conglatulations for the interview but on the other hand how long is "several months"? This is just ridiculous for the judicially to hold people even when they are done with USCIS process!
@nrsesh, Conglatulations, you are probably one of the luckiest in MN to not only get an oath but the same day! Please post your experiences if you guys dont mind. Thanks.
@santurn, Good luck tomorrow, please post your experiences and especially if you can get an idea how long is this dreaded oath wait, thanks.
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I am from wisconsin. During oath ceremony the director mentioned that they wanted to try and see interviewing all the wisconsin people on one designated day once in a while and to give oath same day. According to the director who gave us the oath, our batch was the 3rd time they tried and they are happy with the arrangements. The main reason for this is, most of wisconsin people has to drive minimum of 2 1/2 to 5 to 6 hours to reach the USCIS bloominton mn office and hence they are doing the same day oath as long as there is no name change issue.

In one way it helped us also. We had to drive to milwaukee for finger printing it is about 480 miles to and fro and for interview it is 385 miles to and fro. N-400 is equal to 865 miles.:)
 
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Thanks guys for clarifying that, I am drafting a letter to the judicial council, State House rep. and State Senator to give them the awareness of the suffering of Minnesotans, if it bears any fruits now fine but if not it could possibly help our childrens, families and other relatives in future who knows.
I am just wondering if this backlog will keep on adding or after their "vacations" they kind of do huge ceremonies outside the courts to ease all the backlog, does anyone has a hint?

nrsesh said:
I am from wisconsin. During oath ceremony the director mentioned that they wanted to try and see interviewing all the wisconsin people on one designated day once in a while and to give oath same day. According to the director who gave us the oath, our batch was the 3rd time they tried and they are happy with the arrangements. The main reason for this is, most of wisconsin people has to drive minimum of 2 1/2 to 5 to 6 hours to reach the USCIS bloominton mn office and hence they are doing the same day oath as long as there is no name change issue.

In one way it helped us also. We had to drive to milwaukee for finger printing it is about 480 miles to and fro and for interview it is 385 miles to and fro. N-400 is equal to 865 miles.:)
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They do big ceremonies in the new year and around independence day at the mall of America. But that is not good enough. Why wait 3 months for a judge's oath when other states including NY can have same day oath. Thanks for writing these letters. It is outrageous to have to wait 3 months for an oath when the whole process takes 3 months. It means doubling the processing time for no good reason.
kahuni98 said:
Thanks guys for clarifying that, I am drafting a letter to the judicial council, State House rep. and State Senator to give them the awareness of the suffering of Minnesotans, if it bears any fruits now fine but if not it could possibly help our childrens, families and other relatives in future who knows.
I am just wondering if this backlog will keep on adding or after their "vacations" they kind of do huge ceremonies outside the courts to ease all the backlog, does anyone has a hint?
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Hey all,

Has anyone been fingerprinted at the USCIS location at:

1360 University AVE.
#130
St. Paul, MN 55104

Google maps shows a Super Target, LA Fitness and a Discount Tire in that area, but I can't see anything that looks like a USCIS office.

Thanks all!

-russ
 
I answered my own question!


The Application Support Center is on the right in the Midway Market Place shopping center (in between Leeann Chin and the UPS Store).

:)

-russ
 
Oath letter

brb2 said:
Good luck. BTW, the early finger printing works fine here.
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BRB2, have you received your oath letter yet. I've received an msn on the 16th stating they sent my oath letter, just wondering why so early if next oath ceremony is in September.....let me know
 
Scheduling letter can be in advance. I too got an e-mail that scheduling done for my wife but have not received the letter. Your oath will be same day as my spouse's. I will need to second guess who you are:)
 
I recently applied based on my 5 years since GC eligibility from Twin Cities. Waiting begins....

Sent to Phoenix lock box - 5/13/2011
Priority Date - 5/16/2011
Received SMS and Email notification -5/18/2011
NOA -
FP Notice -
FP done on -
File transferred -
YL received -
IL dated -
ID-
OL received -
OD -
PP applied -
PP received -
 
Finger printing completed.

I want to say that the staff at the Service Support Center in St., Paul were wonderful. They went above and beyond to make sure that either my wife and I could be with our children while the other was being printed, and even helped entertain the kids with activities.

-r


Location - Minnesota
11/March/11 - N-400 Sent to Phoenix, AZ
14/March/11 - N-400 Received
17/March/11 - Check Cashed
18/March/11 - Confirmation Email
22/March/11 - NOA Received
20/April/11 - FP e-notification
22/April/11 - FP letter
18/May/11 - FP Appointment
XX/XX/11 - Case transferred to local office.
XX/XX/11 - Received Interview Letter
XX/XX/11 - Interview -
XX/XX/11 - Ceremony Letter
XX/XX/11 - Ceremony -
 
rhamm,

Did you complete your finger printing on your scheduled date or did they let you do early finger printing?
 
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