manishvora_99
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My wife and I supposed to take our oath in Brooklyn at 8:30 am. How long does the whole process take? I need to travel for business that day ...hence asking.
Irrespective of the location, oath rarely takes more than 2 hours. Usually you are done at the end of hour 1.
In Chicago during my oath ceremony, it took 90 minutes just to register all oath takers!!!
In Boston it will depend on the number of people taking the oath. When I took my oath there were close to 400 people taking the oath, the entire process took about 3 hours. Get there early so you can get a seat in the front, that will shave some time at the end when they hand out the naturalization certificates.
My oath experience lasted from 9:30 until just after 12:00. The oath ceremony itself (at a federal court house, not DO or same day oath) was a little over an hour, then they handed out nat certs. I was in the third row so that did not take long. What took a long time was the registration/check in process. They allowed 90 minutes (9:30 until 11:00) for about 70 people. This could have been done a lot faster but there was no rush. It just ended meaning a lot of waiting around.