Question about name change in oath and Reside continuously during application

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GeorgeWang

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Hi,

I live in Milpitas, California and I think my uscis office should be the San Jose office. I have a few questions about citizenship application:

1. If I want do a name change while getting the citizenship, does San Jose office provide an oath ceremony in a court? (I heard s.j office has oath cermony once a month in heritage theater, Campbell. But that is not a court. Maybe they would arrange oath ceremony in court only once a quater or... ?)

2. If name change during citizen application will delay it too long. Would changing it after be easier? For Whoever had name change epererience after getting citizenship, could you share some experience?

3. From USCIS file, it says you have to "Reside continuously within the United States from the date of application for naturalization up to the time of naturalization". Does this means physically stay in the country or just like the no-more-than-6-month-trip-outside-US-rule in judging the "continuous residence in the United States"? I may need to travel outside us during application process.

I will appreciate if anyone could share some idea or experiences.

- Thanks
 
GeorgeWang said:
Hi,

I live in Milpitas, California and I think my uscis office should be the San Jose office. I have a few questions about citizenship application:

1. If I want do a name change while getting the citizenship, does San Jose office provide an oath ceremony in a court? (I heard s.j office has oath cermony once a month in heritage theater, Campbell. But that is not a court. Maybe they would arrange oath ceremony in court only once a quater or... ?)

2. If name change during citizen application will delay it too long. Would changing it after be easier? For Whoever had name change epererience after getting citizenship, could you share some experience?

I will appreciate if anyone could share some idea or experiences.

- Thanks
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If you request a name change on your N400, it has to be processed through the federal court. So my guess is the ceremony will either has to be in a court or be precised by a federal court judge.

Even though including a name change on your naturalization may delay your case a bit (it is really different from office to office, my local office is in Indy, I had a name changed on my n400 and the whole process took a total of a bit over 4 months for me). I guess it's nonetheless a lot easier than doing name change through the court yourself (the extra $$ you have to pay the court, the additional waiting time, the $$ you have to spend on getting a new naturalization certificate from the USCIS that bears your new name, just to name a few).
 
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I just heard from some one that San Francisco office in California just do not find a court to facilitate you to change name with them. So he was told to change name with a court by himself after naturalization. But he's not sure about San Jose office. He assumed that all uscis offices in California would told you to do name change by yourself.

Any one who has name changing experience with San Jose office in California, please kindly share some information.

Also, for my following question, please kindly share some experience as well if any one happen to know:

3. From USCIS file, it says you have to "Reside continuously within the United States from the date of application for naturalization up to the time of naturalization". Does this means physically stay in the country or just like the no-more-than-6-month-trip-outside-US-rule in judging the "continuous residence in the United States"? I may need to travel outside us during application process.
 
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