Registering to Vote and Applying for Passport

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rjmco

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After the oathtaking ceremony, are we allowed to leave w/o registering to vote and applying for a passport? I'm thinking if there will be a lot of people during my oathtaking, I'd rather do my passport application at the post office and register to vote another time.
 
rjmco said:
After the oathtaking ceremony, are we allowed to leave w/o registering to vote and applying for a passport? I'm thinking if there will be a lot of people during my oathtaking, I'd rather do my passport application at the post office and register to vote another time.
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You are free to leave after the oath is done. I did go to the post office to apply for my passport the next day. As for registering to vote, you can do it anytime you want.
 
It is much better to apply for passport later at a post office since that gives you time to get back home, sign the Nat certificate and make copies before you send it off for your passport.
 
Good to know, thank you mustafa34kc and nkm-oct23.
 
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I registered to vote at my local DMV when i get a new licence. Anyone knows how long to get some kind of notification?
 
In the court we were asked to register to vote before taking the oath (during when they gave a seating numbers, verify docs, and collect our GCs). We received the docs within a week.
 
lc1999 said:
In the court we were asked to register to vote before taking the oath (during when they gave a seating numbers, verify docs, and collect our GCs). We received the docs within a week.
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In that case, I trust that immediately after the oath ceremony they promptly revoked everyone's citizen for registering to vote before actually being a citizen. ;)
 
lc1999 said:
In the court we were asked to register to vote before taking the oath (during when they gave a seating numbers, verify docs, and collect our GCs). We received the docs within a week.
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Interesting and strange as technically this was illegal. You were not a U.S. citizen until you have actually taken the oath.
 
I did not do the registration stuff while I was there. I might be paranoid but technically that was claiming US citizenship before you were formally admitted as a citizen. You are not a citizen until and unless the judge swears you in. I signed my form AFTER the ceremony and mailed it in today.
 
I also filled out the form but didn't sign and date until the oath was done and I was a citizen. However, this kind of thing is between one and oneself, they don't make any practical difference. It's just a technicality. In my case we couldn't drop the voter registration form until the end of the ceremony, so by the time of filing the form we were already citizens.
 
That’s true. I think they didn’t care too much about the timing of it. In our batch, everyone was asked to fill out the voter registration form and the filled out forms were collected just before entering into the court room for taking oath. This procedure was collectively done by USCIS officials and court officials. We HOPE that they know the procedures better than us.
 
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