Citizentobehz
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Today, I became a proud American after 23 years of challenge life in this country.
Scheduled at 10:30am, about 80 of us, orderly went through the signature/validation process for our Certificates. At 11:30am, the Federal Judge administed ceremony. There are quite few new citizens went up in front and made the speeches. One and a half hour later, I drove on the freeway for the first time as a proud of Citizen of the United States.
Since I had my first name changed during my process. I went down to SSA office and get my SSN updated and applied for new SSN card. Drive license change has to wait until I receive my SSN card with new name. The second stop on the way home: Postal Office and applied for US Passport.
One interesting thing, the USCIS officer who hand out the certificate with Judge at the end, is the one who did my interview over 4 months ago. She still remebered me and I thanked her again at the end.....
For those of still waiting for various stage of this process, be patient, it will come sooner or later..... Best wishes to all and God Bless America!
Scheduled at 10:30am, about 80 of us, orderly went through the signature/validation process for our Certificates. At 11:30am, the Federal Judge administed ceremony. There are quite few new citizens went up in front and made the speeches. One and a half hour later, I drove on the freeway for the first time as a proud of Citizen of the United States.
Since I had my first name changed during my process. I went down to SSA office and get my SSN updated and applied for new SSN card. Drive license change has to wait until I receive my SSN card with new name. The second stop on the way home: Postal Office and applied for US Passport.
One interesting thing, the USCIS officer who hand out the certificate with Judge at the end, is the one who did my interview over 4 months ago. She still remebered me and I thanked her again at the end.....
For those of still waiting for various stage of this process, be patient, it will come sooner or later..... Best wishes to all and God Bless America!
My entire N400 process took about little more then 18 months. I had my GC since 1993, for various circumstances, I didn't apply Citizenship until Nov. 2007.