Moving City During Citizenship Process

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alpha_bravo

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I am new here. Please excuse me, if it is already discussed.
I am moving from one city to another because I found another job.
My fingerprint is done about 3 months ago.
No interview is scheduled yet.

My moving from one city to another also change my service center.
I submitted N-400 in NSC. FP was taken in a mid-western city.

Now, I will move to east coast.

Question 1:ll the service center change from NSC to VSC?

If my interview is not done yet and if I move, what problem I may encounter?
If anybody had such experience?
 
alpha_bravo said:
I am new here. Please excuse me, if it is already discussed.
I am moving from one city to another because I found another job.
My fingerprint is done about 3 months ago.
No interview is scheduled yet.

My moving from one city to another also change my service center.
I submitted N-400 in NSC. FP was taken in a mid-western city.

Now, I will move to east coast.

Question 1:ll the service center change from NSC to VSC?

If my interview is not done yet and if I move, what problem I may encounter?
If anybody had such experience?
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You can determine which service center you'll fall under by checking your new location with the USCIS website. For example, Maryland, DC and Virginia are processed through Vermont (VSC).

Once you move, you need to submit an AR-11 address change, which *hopefully* will start the ball rolling. The big problem is your case files will probably need to be transferred from whatever your old DO to your new SC and on to the new DO. Naturally this will take time...

In addition, I think the "must reside in district for 90 days" rule may also come into effect, further slowing down your processing.

Any chance you might be able to postpone your move for a few months, at least until you know whether you're going to be on the fast track to interview & oath?
 
Thank you for the reply.

I may be able to keep my apartment and my furnitures in the old city address and also stay in the old apartment during weekends until May, 2007. But, I will have to stay in the new city during the week days either in a hotel or in a temporarty housing.

So, will it be okay?
 
Its all about where your official "residence" address is located. Its also the same address on your drivers license - so as long as you can honestly not update your license, it really doesn't matter where you actually sleep at night.

Put another way, so long as you still retain a residence at your old address, you don't need to physically be present there.
 
It is not advisable change your address in the middle of this process because doing so will significantly increase the time it will take to get naturalized. We're talking serious delays of up to many months.

But if you have a new job, you have a new job. I can't argue with that. Maybe the new resident in your old residence can fwd your mail to you?... and you can fly back for the Interview and the Oath?...

BUT if the IO asks you in the interview whether you are still living at the address then you might have a problem with lying... But as Boatbod mentioned, if you can somehow maintain a residence there i.e. don't close your local bank account, depending on your situation pay part of the rent or the utilities etc. then you could pull it off.
 
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