Traveling without a US passport

[Obongo]

Hi,

I can smell the sweet US citizen certificate (or the
sweaty deportation detention center) depending
on my interview turns out!

Suppose it turns out positive and I take the oath.
At that point they take away your green cards,
right but don't stamp anything in your other country's
passport? (I can be a dual citizen) Then if I want to
travel abroad, I would need to get a US passport
to prove I am a citizen, otherwise, how could I be
let back into the US since I have no visa or GC..

Obongo

 

[Flydog]

Yup, you'll need a new passport. You can travel to very few countries (Canada, Mexico, maybe a few others) with just the Natz cert, but otherwise...

And, starting in late January, you'll need a passport to arrive in the US from anywhere by air or by ship.

 

[Obongo]

Yup, you'll need a new passport. You can travel to very few countries (Canada, Mexico, maybe a few others) with just the Natz cert, but otherwise...

And, starting in late January, you'll need a passport to arrive in the US from anywhere by air or by ship.

Oh. Well that explains why so many people are asking about passports.

So there are four queues:

a) The FP queue
b) The Interview queue
c) The Oath queue
d) The PP queue

Oh well, one more queue is not the end of the world.

 

[boatbod]

Its true, but at least you know you'll receive a passport at the end of the passport queue, and you can always shorten the wait by paying a few more $$.

 

[Flydog]

Yes, getting a passport is a *much* less frustrating experience. They have an 800 number with people, they have a web site for tracking your application that pretty much works, and, in the end, you will know that your application will not be denied because of some bureaucratic idiosyncracy.