Former Green card holder now Citizen as of a few days ago.
Submitted an online form 4 months ago, received an interview date two months ago, had my interview last week.
Interview was at 8:30am
Oath ceremony was at 9am
Registered to vote at 9.15am
Back at work at 10am!
Submitted passport application the day after.
Interview was straightforward and most of the time was double checking all the information I had previously submitted was accurate. Learning the answers to the civics test was fun.
I think there is a cliche of a stern interviewer who is looking for any excuse to say no, but this officer was kind and encouraging.
The oath ceremony was actually quite moving. I often see most displays of patriotism as some kind of pseudo mental illness but the patriotism shown by the officiant was actually rational, inclusive and inspiring.
All that to say, am lucky and pleased to have such a smooth journey to citizenship and am happy to be able to vote!
Love it. Browser extensions like yours are one of the few things we have that act as “condom”s to protect us from the nefarious features of these websites that aren’t working in our best interests.
I have a friend who worked in the past five years for two tech companies that IPOd and has lots of vested stock.
She wants to buy a house in San Francisco but doesn’t want to sell her stock to make the downpayment. She plans to use a collateral-loan offered by ETrade (who manages her employee stock plans).
Submitted an online form 4 months ago, received an interview date two months ago, had my interview last week.
Interview was at 8:30am Oath ceremony was at 9am Registered to vote at 9.15am Back at work at 10am!
Submitted passport application the day after.
Interview was straightforward and most of the time was double checking all the information I had previously submitted was accurate. Learning the answers to the civics test was fun.
I think there is a cliche of a stern interviewer who is looking for any excuse to say no, but this officer was kind and encouraging.
The oath ceremony was actually quite moving. I often see most displays of patriotism as some kind of pseudo mental illness but the patriotism shown by the officiant was actually rational, inclusive and inspiring.
All that to say, am lucky and pleased to have such a smooth journey to citizenship and am happy to be able to vote!