I was scheduled to go on 09-26-2008 at 12:30 pm in Kansas City, KS Court House. I went there at 11:45 anticipating some parking issues. You can park across the street in various business parking lots. There was a security guard outside the court telling everyone that no cell phones are allowed but camera/video camera is okay.
We waited down at a waiting room with 90 other citizen to be and their families. At 12:30 a different court security guard told us to form a line and a different officer made sure we filled out the back of the oath letter. Make sure to put the City and State of the location of the Court and not your own ‘City and State’ in Signed at section of the form .
At 12: 45 they took us up to the sixth floor in a group of 15-20 where a lady identified herself as a USCIS officer and told us to keep standing in line with the letter and the green card. At 1:15 she told us to come to a specific room with the completed ‘Oath Notice’ letter and ‘Green Card’ where they verbally asked the questions that were at the back of the form. There was another gentleman form the USCIS that was helping her with this process. After checking the back of the Oath Letter and taking our green Cards away they told us to pick our own Citizenship Certificate from a table and go the court Clark who was sitting across the room. The Clark told us to sign the Certificate as it shows in the Picture. I told her my Full name is not in the signature of picture. To which she said everyone needs to sing the name as it shows in the picture. After that she kept our certificate and we were directed to the court room.
The judge came and the USCIS lady introduced everyone to the judge by our name and country of origin and our occupation.
The oath was administered and there were couple guest speakers talked about various nation issues such as the Wall-Street bailout and election participation etc.
On our way out the door the USCIS lady handed out the certificate. Than we went down to the waiting room where we were able to pick up passport application , sign up to Vote, and pick up some refreshment
I applied for Citizenship in Mid May 08 and got Naturalized on 09-26-08. FYI I have a very, very typical Muslim name. However it had no affect on any of my processes. Personally I was not worried with my name.
The USCIS people have been very professional through out the last six years as I had to deal with them in various occasions. I think to some point I got lucky.
Be patient and I think it is all worth it at the end. GOOD LUCK my friends.
We waited down at a waiting room with 90 other citizen to be and their families. At 12:30 a different court security guard told us to form a line and a different officer made sure we filled out the back of the oath letter. Make sure to put the City and State of the location of the Court and not your own ‘City and State’ in Signed at section of the form .
At 12: 45 they took us up to the sixth floor in a group of 15-20 where a lady identified herself as a USCIS officer and told us to keep standing in line with the letter and the green card. At 1:15 she told us to come to a specific room with the completed ‘Oath Notice’ letter and ‘Green Card’ where they verbally asked the questions that were at the back of the form. There was another gentleman form the USCIS that was helping her with this process. After checking the back of the Oath Letter and taking our green Cards away they told us to pick our own Citizenship Certificate from a table and go the court Clark who was sitting across the room. The Clark told us to sign the Certificate as it shows in the Picture. I told her my Full name is not in the signature of picture. To which she said everyone needs to sing the name as it shows in the picture. After that she kept our certificate and we were directed to the court room.
The judge came and the USCIS lady introduced everyone to the judge by our name and country of origin and our occupation.
The oath was administered and there were couple guest speakers talked about various nation issues such as the Wall-Street bailout and election participation etc.
On our way out the door the USCIS lady handed out the certificate. Than we went down to the waiting room where we were able to pick up passport application , sign up to Vote, and pick up some refreshment
I applied for Citizenship in Mid May 08 and got Naturalized on 09-26-08. FYI I have a very, very typical Muslim name. However it had no affect on any of my processes. Personally I was not worried with my name.
The USCIS people have been very professional through out the last six years as I had to deal with them in various occasions. I think to some point I got lucky.
Be patient and I think it is all worth it at the end. GOOD LUCK my friends.