Folks,
Me and my spouse had our interview and oath done yesterday at
Newark.
Both our scheduled times were at 9:00 a.m.
Reached 970 Broard Street at about 8:11 a.m. and parked in Court Street
just opposite the Federal Building for $10.00 all day (Thanks RSury for the
info).
Went through security and then up to the 15th floor and put our interview
notices in the box on Window 1.
We were all told to sit and wait for our names to be called. The immigration
officers were calling the names and intructing them to go to the various
doors 1, 2, 3.
I was called in at 9:05 a.m.
The immigration officer asked me to take a seat and hand him my passport
and green card. I did the same.
After that he started going through my application. He asked me
my name, address, day time phone number (Now here I mentioned exactly
what was mentioned in the form, thanks to the posting by other folks
previously). I think he was expecting me to fumble on this question, but
since I mentioned the exact phone number on the form, he went on with the
other questions. He asked me my height.
Then he went to the page 4 which had the travel history and here I went to
mention of the additional trip out of the country and proceeded to give
him the amended page. But he didn't want to hear that. But he still asked for how long was the trip and then he went on through the application tick marking it.
The he started to ask me the questions:-
1) Who is the speaker of the house?
Here I drew a blank because it was not from the 100 questions of the quick
civic tests. So I went on to explain that the Speaker of the house becomes
the president after the President and the Vice-President dies. He said that is
not my question. Then the answer hit me and I said Nancy Peloski with
a question on my face and he said yes that is correct.
Here I mentioned that the question was not from the 100 questions and he said I could test you on different aspects of the govenment not what is
outlined in the questions. I just agreed.
2) Who is the Chief Justice?
So I asked if it was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and he said yes.
John G. Roberts JR.
3) What do the stripes on the flag mean?
The first 13 states.
4) What are the first 13 states?
I was about to answer and before I could do that, he said I want you to
answer this way 1 state, 2 state, 3 state so it will help me also.
So I answered exactly the way he wanted.
He asked me to write a sentence.
and that was the end of the interview. He seemed satisfied with the answers
and he gave me a page (Appt for Naturalization Ceremony) told me to put in my information and submit it to the window when my name would be called.
He asked me to sign at various places legibly. This implies sign with the
name and all intials expanded. Better do not put a line below it.
That was it, about 8 minutes.
My spouse was called in at 10:15 a.m. and her immigration officer went through the each item of the form more thoroughly asked her 10 questions from the quick civic lessons and handed her a congratulations page and
an appt. for Oath Ceremony.
Eventually our names were called out and we had to submit the green card and verify information on the Naturalization Certificate and was told that we would be called for the Oath Ceremony between 1-2 p.m. So we took a break went to the cafeteria on the 2nd floor and came back at 1:00 p.m.
Was called in for the Oath Ceremony at 1:45 p.m. and was shown 2 short
videos. The supervisor came and went through the Oath of Allegiance
and then told us that we could make Black and White copies of the Naturalization Certificate but not color and we were out by 2:30 p.m.
Hope this helps
Here is my timeline:-
2/7/2007 Sent N-400 applications via USPS Priority Mail to VSC.
2/16/2007 Checks cashed
2/13/2007 Priority Date (web site indicates application received on 2/14/07)
3/1/2007 - Received NOA for Receipt, Priority Date mentioned 2/13/2007
3/1/2007 - NOA for fingerprints (received both NOAs on 3/1/2007)
3/9/2007 - Appt. for FP (FP completed on 3/8/2007)
4/27/2007 - Online indicates - Case not found
4/30/2007 - Received NOA for Interview
7/19/2007 - Interview
7/19/2007 - Oath
