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Today's Naturalization Interview at Dallas District Offie
N-400 Timeline Dallas District Office
06/08/2009 - Sent Application
06/12/2009 - Application received; priority date
06/15/2009 - Check Cashed
06/18/2009 - Received Notice of Action
06/25/2009 - Received fingerprinting Appointment Letter
07/09/2009 - Fingerprinting Appointment
08/05/2009 - Received Naturalization Interview Appointment letter
09/01/2009 - Interview Date
09/01/2009 - Attended oath ceremony, Received Certificate of Naturalization and became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
My interview time today was 9:10 a.m. in Dallas Office (6 minutes from the Dallas Fortworth Airport). I took an early American Airline flight of 6 a.m. and was supposed to arrive around 7 a.m. However, the aircraft encountered some mechanical problems and there was no way I could make it to the 9:10 a.m. interview. I know missing the interview could delay my naturalization application considerably. So I bought another Southwest Airlines ticket and arrived at the Lovefield Airport at 8 a.m. Lovefield Airport is 45 minutes away from the Dallas District Office. Once the plane landed, I ran to grab a cab. Fortunately, the cab driver has been to the Dallas office numerous times. He avoided a heavy traffic road and used some shortcuts. I arrived there 15 minutes earlier and gave my interview notice to the front desk gentleman.
The interviewing officers apparently were behind schedules. I wasn't called in until 10 a.m. The hispanic officer was very professional. He took me to his office and immediately placed me under oath. He asked for green card, driver license (didn't have any problem with my temp TX driver license), passports (new and old), and Social Security Card). He went over all important criteria of my Naturalization application (N-400) such as my current employment, residency, family and children, my overseas trip since becoming a permanent resident. then he handed me a sheet with 3 sentence on it and asked me to read the 1st sentence which is " Where is the White House?" and gave me another sheet of paper and asked me to write "President lives in the White House." Then he asked the following questions randomly generated from the computer.
1. Who is the Governor of Texas?
2. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
3. Who was the first president?
4. What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
5. Where is the Statue of Liberty?
6. Name two national U.S. holidays
I answered the above questions correctly and he stopped asking more questions and said congratulations you passed, and gave me an oath ceremony of 1:30 this afternoon. I pledged allegiance and got my naturalization certificate along with 103 other applicants.
Here're a few tips:
1. Bring a little more documents than required such as your social security card, tax returns, W-2, employment verification letter from your boss, utility bills, bank statements, lease letter, etc.;
2. Be familiar yourself with all your answers in your N-400 application form. If you bring supporting documents to back up whatever you claim in your application, you'll be in good shape;
3. Bring two passport photos just in case the officers lose yours when you send the application. One guy asked me where Walgreens is. I suppose he wanted to take pictures again;
4. Try your best to make it to the scheduled interview. The extra effort and money are worth it.
I feel I learned a great deal from this forum and just wanted to share my experiences immediately.
Good luck!
David
06/08/2009 - Sent Application
06/12/2009 - Application received; priority date
06/15/2009 - Check Cashed
06/18/2009 - Received Notice of Action
06/25/2009 - Received fingerprinting Appointment Letter
07/09/2009 - Fingerprinting Appointment
08/05/2009 - Received Naturalization Interview Appointment letter
09/01/2009 - Interview Date
09/01/2009 - Attended oath ceremony, Received Certificate of Naturalization and became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
My interview time today was 9:10 a.m. in Dallas Office (6 minutes from the Dallas Fortworth Airport). I took an early American Airline flight of 6 a.m. and was supposed to arrive around 7 a.m. However, the aircraft encountered some mechanical problems and there was no way I could make it to the 9:10 a.m. interview. I know missing the interview could delay my naturalization application considerably. So I bought another Southwest Airlines ticket and arrived at the Lovefield Airport at 8 a.m. Lovefield Airport is 45 minutes away from the Dallas District Office. Once the plane landed, I ran to grab a cab. Fortunately, the cab driver has been to the Dallas office numerous times. He avoided a heavy traffic road and used some shortcuts. I arrived there 15 minutes earlier and gave my interview notice to the front desk gentleman.
The interviewing officers apparently were behind schedules. I wasn't called in until 10 a.m. The hispanic officer was very professional. He took me to his office and immediately placed me under oath. He asked for green card, driver license (didn't have any problem with my temp TX driver license), passports (new and old), and Social Security Card). He went over all important criteria of my Naturalization application (N-400) such as my current employment, residency, family and children, my overseas trip since becoming a permanent resident. then he handed me a sheet with 3 sentence on it and asked me to read the 1st sentence which is " Where is the White House?" and gave me another sheet of paper and asked me to write "President lives in the White House." Then he asked the following questions randomly generated from the computer.
1. Who is the Governor of Texas?
2. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
3. Who was the first president?
4. What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
5. Where is the Statue of Liberty?
6. Name two national U.S. holidays
I answered the above questions correctly and he stopped asking more questions and said congratulations you passed, and gave me an oath ceremony of 1:30 this afternoon. I pledged allegiance and got my naturalization certificate along with 103 other applicants.
Here're a few tips:
1. Bring a little more documents than required such as your social security card, tax returns, W-2, employment verification letter from your boss, utility bills, bank statements, lease letter, etc.;
2. Be familiar yourself with all your answers in your N-400 application form. If you bring supporting documents to back up whatever you claim in your application, you'll be in good shape;
3. Bring two passport photos just in case the officers lose yours when you send the application. One guy asked me where Walgreens is. I suppose he wanted to take pictures again;
4. Try your best to make it to the scheduled interview. The extra effort and money are worth it.
I feel I learned a great deal from this forum and just wanted to share my experiences immediately.
Good luck!
David
well i am happy for you. have fun...
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