Adnams

In under three and a half months from first filing my N400 I have my oath ceremony scheduled for the beginning of December. This seems like warp speed considering the incredibly, incredibly lengthy process we had adjusting status from H1b/H4's to GC but that is by the by.

I am wondering about paperwork required for the oath ceremony.

The letter requests "All reentry permits or refuge travel documents you may have valid or expired".

I have an old British passport that has an original expired H4 visa in it. My current valid British passport has nothing relating to visas in it. So, should I take that old expired passport? Is that legally required? If I didnt take it would that somehow invalidate my ceremony? Will they keep my expired passport with the old visa in it?

The letter also requests "any other documents USCIS issued to you". I have an expired EAD should I take that too?

Many thanks all, in advance.

BenK91

I can't speak from experience on the N400 front but I would quite literally take anything and everything. I'd rather have it and not need it etc.

Congratulations though

Adnams

Lol, this is exactly what we did for our naturalization "interview" and "test" . Folders and folders of stuff that neither my examiner or my husband's even glanced at.

Rete

What they are looking for are records of your trips outside of the US since your residency just to ascertain that you have the required time inside of the US to uphold your claim to eligibility for naturalization. A passport is such a small item, I would say, yes, bring it. Not like you will need a passport to carry it in. If you haven't travelled since your naturalization interview, then you are fine.

MidAtlantic

The OP is referring to the naturalization oath ceremony. You certainly don't want (or need) to turn up to that with "folders and folders of stuff".

For mine, I simply had to hand in my green card and the completed N445 declaration.

Pulaski

All I had was my green card too, but they might want to stamp VOID on an old visa, or punch a hole through it - but they cannot confiscate an old passport or deface it by removing pages.

Rete

Since you were quoting the OP, not sure who you were addressing. They asked at the time of my husband's naturalization to bring any documentation, i.e. passport, etc., if he had traveled outside of the US between the examination and the ceremony.

rpjs

"Re-entry permits" and "refuge travel documents" are specific travel documents. Nothing you've written suggests you have either. It certainly doesn't refer to your old passport with an H-4 - all USCIS is interested in at this point is travel since you became a US LPR and within the last five (or three if qualifying by marriage) years before your naturalization date.

I just took my Green Card to my ceremony. I noticed that many other people had brought their non-US passports but I didn't notice any of the USCIS officers attending taking any interest in them, and I wasn't asked for or about my UK passport at any point.

S Folinsky

The request is addressed only to USCIS issued travel documents. It should be noted that the I-551 green card serves as a reentry permit. A refugee/asylee who has become a lawful permanent resident may very well have a refugee travel documents.

Once a person becomes a US citizen, they no longer travel as an "alien" which by definition excuse US citizens and Nationals.

kateinbrooklyn

Of course it may be different for you, but my lawyer advised me that I only needed to take my green card.

Adnams

Thanks all, awesome advice as always

MidAtlantic

My mistake. I missed the fact that I was quoting the OP! Nevertheless my point still stands, that green card and N445 is normally all that is required for the ceremony

rpjs

I had travelled abroad between interview and oath ceremony but didn’t being my British passport to the oath ceremony and no one said a thing.