SultanOfSwing

Seems to be a similar pattern to most of them. Mine was at the Chicago USCIS office though, not a courthouse, but I handed in my greencards, was given an envelope with some info, assigned a seat number and proceeded to the room where they did the ceremony. Was a little talk, they played some awful cheesy country song, had all the nationalities stand up and then began presenting the certificates.

No background checks at the ceremony, you're done with those now.

Poppy girl

Why you thinking of having a conviction or commiting a crime between now and then!!....if you look I seem to recall it does state that if you recieve any tickets, arrests etc before the ceremony you have to inform them!!

It seems after reading folks Oath Ceremony days they are all slighty different mind was bloody awful, but I seem to remember that Noorah had a wonderful day and a few others said that it was very pleasant how the process went!!

Noorah101

Yep, ours was great! I didn't realize you had a bad oath day, Poppy Sorry to hear it.

Rene

adjudicator89

No Poppy no crimes, I was just curious how the process goes. Poppy u had bad oath?

Poppy girl

Yep its all in this thread somewhere it was boring, hundreds of folk there the smell from the bog was horrendous drifted into the hall, the guy next to me farted his brains out...it was tacky and nasty (the ceremony not the farts ) I was there in body but not mind (never a problem for me lol) and I was one of the if not the 1st to make head way for the door when it was over and driving up the freeway...hated the whole day.

tonrob

I plan on farting at my oath ceremony. Any particular tips?

Poppy girl

Lot's of sprouts the night before to prepare!!

adjudicator89

When I had my N-400 interview I told the IO that I changed my mind about the name change and that I would rather have my old name she said ok I will change it to your old name. However, today I am thinking why is my Oath Ceremony at the Courthouse. I've read somewhere that only Oath ceremonies requested name change are held in courts is that true? But at the end of my N-400 interview when I was signing everything all the papers had my Old name. Oh god I hope they didn't change my name. It's a month away do you guys think its not too late to make an Infopass and check if they DID NOT change my name? Thank you.

ian-mstm

My Oath Ceremony was held in a court - with a Federal judge and everything... but I certainly never requested a name change. However, there were several other people there who had requested a name change. I'm willing to bet good money that someone else in your group has requested a name change.

Ian

Poppy girl

If it is incorrect it will cost you between $300-$400 bucks to change to what you want!!!
I would not go pissing them off mate leave well alone, I wanted to change mine as well after the interview, but did not bother, I was still able to obtain a passport in the old name and a DL....my cert has the name I did not want and I have no idea where I have put that, the only document that changed was my tax file name!!......in my case it was like going from Poppy to Poppie...depends how big the change is for you!!

adjudicator89

Thanks for that info Poppy-Poppie LOL and Ian. I really hope that she changed it to my old name . She even asked me 3 times if I want to change it back to my old name and print out everything with my old name on it. If she didn't oh well, I am not going to pay 300-400 dollars to change it again.So the day I will get my certificate I can say I am a US citizen right Poppy?

Poppy girl

Yes and not a day before young man!!

sir_eccles

Previously...

Rather than canceling the expensive Hawaiian vacation, I decided to reschedule the Naturalization Interview with all the risk that entailed! I sent back the original appointment letter along with a very short letter requesting a reschedule, I also included a copy of my flight itinerary as evidence. I'll skip the bit where I panicked a bit after not hearing a response then getting an Infopass appointment then canceling it after getting responses the next day. But it essentially played out as follows:

So, I lost about 1.5 months. Not too bad considering. The interesting thing is that in the time from August 17th to now, the Phoenix Field office has moved from North Central Ave to South 16th Street (confirmed on uscis.gov)!!!!

bequibar

I passed my interview and test but got an RFE on May 15th. Submitted my evidence on June 2. Still haven't heard back a peep.

Starting to worry...

SultanOfSwing

What did they ask for? I'm sure you will be OK - USCIS aren't exactly known for being speedy.