Finished interview
I went to SJ DO yesterday morning for the interview. I went in 20 minutes ahead of time. But, they called me 10 minutes before my appointment time. I had my trepidations - not for the citizenship tests or the interview, but because I am the mom of a new born infant who is a few weeks old and was worried that they might make me wait hours inside with no phones. But my husband was able to come in with me with the infant in tow and wait with me. A very, very nice officer interviewed me. It lasted 20 minutes. The actual interview and process might have taken just 5 minutes. He was chatting with me about the IT boom in my native India, what the economy and job situation was like over there and if I was considering relocating to India for a future job, his experience interviewing other Indian immigrants etc during the rest of the time. I was thoroughly impressed by the whole process and left feeling good about federal agencies. As for the interview, the officer amended the application about my new born's details, asked about my foreign trips, my employer's name, and the usual questions about brushes with law, illegal activities, bearing arms for the US in the event of war etc. He asked me to write on the application form a sentence that went "I am a ______" to describe my career. This served as the english language test. Then I signed 2 photos. Then he gave me a questionnaire for the civics test and asked me to write the answers as well as speak them out as I wrote them. I got all of them right. He then said that my interview was over and that I could expect a oath letter in 4-6 weeks. I can't believe that I am all done. I have been on these boards since 1997 starting with H1, then GC and now citizenship. This time around I took the laid back approach and even applied long after I was eligible to apply (I had other important things happening in my life to distract me). BTW/ my husband who applied on the same day as me has not got his IL yet. In his infopass appointment, a rude lady officer told him that his background check has not yet cleared and that he might get his citizenship either in a month or 2 years and nobody could predict such things.
Good luck to all and I hope you have as nice an interview experience as I did.