Raleigh/Durham NC - N-400 Timeline

naso said:
In order to help you better understand the scheduling/descheduling circumstances I am passing along this portion of a recent email I received:

Mr. __________ and Ms. ____________ (DHS/USCIS Raleigh District Office) have asked me to pass along this information to all of the chapter members concerning descheduled appointments. There was a clerical error which resulted in sending out interview notices which should not have been sent. For that reason, notices are being sent to deschedule appointments for N-400s during October and notices are also being sent for 11:00 a.m. appointments for I-485s during October. The only reason these appointments are being descheduled is because of a clerical error and Mr. _________ indicated that he hopes to reschedule them by November. He was unhappy that these notices got sent out before he caught the clerical error and he apologizes for not having caught it earlier.
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what did you do in order to receive such an email?
 
Civic test

I see that the civic test questions have been revised. ANy idea if interviews held after Oct 1st will be based on the new questions?

Read an article (link given by lev280 in Dallas timeline). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26639393/

Here is an excerpt.
""""Herminia Kindelan, a program specialist at a citizenship program at Santa Ana College, said she is worried that applications could decline further. She said more immigrants might be discouraged about upcoming revisions to the U.S. civics test, which they must pass before becoming citizens.
The changes, which aim to gauge immigrants' understanding of concepts in U.S. civics and avoid rote memorization, take effect for applications received after Sept. 30.""

Wondering if this article intends to say that applications received before Sep 30th will be tested based on old questions.

No IL, still trying to keep up. WAT, IF, USCIS wakes up and sends a letter before Oct 10th. :)

Thanks
Murali
 
Bob, have you called USCIS to see if you are in queue for oath or if an oath letter has been sent ?
If an oath letter has not been sent by now, i doubt we will be included in the September 29 oath.

I will likely call on friday if i do not receive anything by the. CAN'T REALLY WAIT TO BE DONE WITH USCIS
 
fbanna79 said:
Bob, have you called USCIS to see if you are in queue for oath or if an oath letter has been sent ?
If an oath letter has not been sent by now, i doubt we will be included in the September 29 oath.

I will likely call on friday if i do not receive anything by the. CAN'T REALLY WAIT TO BE DONE WITH USCIS
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I called Friday and was told I was placed in oath queue on Sept 4th. I predict I'll be taking possible oath October 3th or 6th and will receive oath letter by Sept 23rd.
Don't worry fbanna, you'll be included in the oaths as well.

I wonder if the "multiple oaths a tthe end of September" statement from an IO at the Sept 5th holds true. Perhaps they will hold multiple oaths on Sept 29t the DO with small groups of 30-50 people.
 
Bobsmyth said:
I called Friday and was told I was placed in oath queue on Sept 4th. I predict I'll be taking possible oath October 3th or 6th and will receive oath letter by Sept 23rd.
Don't worry fbanna, you'll be included in the oaths as well.

I wonder if the "multiple oaths a tthe end of September" statement from an IO at the Sept 5th holds true. Perhaps they will hold multiple oaths on Sept 29t the DO with small groups of 30-50 people.
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I have the same feeling that I will be included in the early october oath, but I just don't want to believe anything until i have the oath letter in hands. :confused:

May be the oath can be in the parking lot as was the opening ceremony in May, provided weather conditions is good. :D
 
fbanna79 said:
I have the same feeling that I will be included in the early october oath, but I just don't want to believe anything until i have the oath letter in hands. :confused:

May be the oath can be in the parking lot as was the opening ceremony in May, provided weather conditions is good. :D
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If they plan to have oaths at the DO I'm guessing they must be set up with a large conference room or auditorium?
 
Just came back from the Infopass session. There is no useful information on my case other than 'you MAY be placed on Sep 29th OC, or the beginning of Oct, but we don't know.'

I asked - did you send me OL before because I am afraid of the letter was lost since my interview was June 10th. They said no. So I asked if there is any reason my OC date is so late as there are many people who interviewed much later than me but got OC done last Friday. They said there is no reason, and they promised they do not pick names they like.

So, it's all random? It's so hard to keep positive with this agency.
 
green8 said:
Just came back from the Infopass session. There is no useful information on my case other than 'you MAY be placed on Sep 29th OC, or the beginning of Oct, but we don't know.'

I asked - did you send me OL before because I am afraid of the letter was lost since my interview was June 10th. They said no. So I asked if there is any reason my OC date is so late as there are many people who interviewed much later than me but got OC done last Friday. They said there is no reason, and they promised they do not pick names they like.

So, it's all random? It's so hard to keep positive with this agency.
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Did IO tell you when you were placed in oath queue?
 
Bobsmyth said:
Did IO tell you when you were placed in oath queue?
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Nope, they said they don't know.

They said they only know there are two OC coming the end of the month and the beginning of Oct. I don't know what else I can do and they said nothing you can do but wait.

Bob, do you mind giving me the phone number you were calling? Or you just used the general 1800 number? I called before, the answer is they don't know either. :(
 
call the 1-800 number, press 1, 2 and 3. When transferred to a Custumer service rep, tell them you have sent your N-400 more than 30 days ago and did not received a receipt number. this is the only excuise they you can use to speak to a Officer, otherwise, the general custumer service will read you the annoying "On xxxx we received your N-400 application for naturalization .....".

When tranferred to an Immigration officer, tell them that you need to check on your case and they will request thngs like A#, receipt #, DOB, Address, Mother's name etc ... to verify your ID. Then, you will be able to ask them exactly what you need and what your concern is.

I have the feeling that the Raleigh DO lady handling infopass does not provide enough details on people's case
 
naso said:
In order to help you better understand the scheduling/descheduling circumstances I am passing along this portion of a recent email I received:

Mr. __________ and Ms. ____________ (DHS/USCIS Raleigh District Office) have asked me to pass along this information to all of the chapter members concerning descheduled appointments. There was a clerical error which resulted in sending out interview notices which should not have been sent. For that reason, notices are being sent to deschedule appointments for N-400s during October and notices are also being sent for 11:00 a.m. appointments for I-485s during October. The only reason these appointments are being descheduled is because of a clerical error and Mr. _________ indicated that he hopes to reschedule them by November. He was unhappy that these notices got sent out before he caught the clerical error and he apologizes for not having caught it earlier.
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what did you do in order to receive such an email?
 
green8 said:
Nope, they said they don't know.

They said they only know there are two OC coming the end of the month and the beginning of Oct. I don't know what else I can do and they said nothing you can do but wait.

Bob, do you mind giving me the phone number you were calling? Or you just used the general 1800 number? I called before, the answer is they don't know either. :(
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Just use the general 1-800 number and follow the steps outlined by fbanna. Once they transfer you to an IO, the IO will be able to tell you if you have been placed in oath queue or not.
 
murals72 said:
Its the second time today that you have posted this washburn..
Whats going on?
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oops; I thought I only posted this in the other thread where he had the same post. apparently I had done it here, too :)

well, I was just curious (of course I didn't know he had a lawyer, etc) how/why someone would get such a letter.

Also, why did they say it's a "clerical error" which prompted the IV letters ? this totally negates the answer the IO gave you @ your infopass, Mural. (she told you that our IV letters were sent only actually after the people were really ready for IVs, which means name checks were cleared, ready for UV etc, but descheduled due to staffing issues). according to the e-mail he got, if it was a total clerical error, we all could still be in name check, and not ready for IV at all: which further means there's no sense in hoping for a REschedule letter soon, like your IO lady said, as we were not really scheduled, but scheduled in (clerical) error. (=not yet ready for IV; and the IV letter was a mistake)

I don't know which answer is the most accurate.... his email or your IO lady :)

and YAY! for me and a tap on my own shoulder for not getting my hopes up :D
 
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After i received the emai, i talked to an IO and i have been told my name placed inline for an interview
 
naso said:
i just spoke to an IO and who adviced me to go for interview but he can't guarantee i will make it. In the other hand, he told me 8 days ago they put my name for queue interview which is MATCH the letter"descheduled" i got which is dated Aug, 19. I am just confused why charlotte scheduled the interview and durham cancelled it and both notices came TSC

Any speculations?
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It looks like when one get descheduled, he goes back to the back of the queue. Otherwise, why d are you only placed in the queue 8 days back ?
 
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