Mdeso

I'm a new poster to this forum, but have been a frequent visitor over
the past couple of years. You guys have been an excellent source of
information and entertainment over that time. I wanted to thank all of
you for sharing your experiences and offering advice. I never posted a
question, as everything I needed to know had already been asked. But now
I want to give something back by providing my timeline and experience,
as my journey from fiance to US citizen is almost complete. Hopefully
this will be of help to some people out there.

Jan 2001 - applied for fiance visa in Sydney, Australia
Jun 2001 - attended interview in Sydney and received approval of fiance
visa
Jul 2001 - entered US
Aug 2001 - married in Minneapolis, MN
Sep 2001 - filed I-485
Apr 2002 - received 2 yr conditional green card
Jan 3 2004 - filed I-751 with NSC (90 days before green card expired)
Jan 3 2005 - filed N-400 with NSC (still no word on I-751)
Feb 24 2005 - had fingerprints taken in St. Paul
Mar 16 2005 - received notice to appear for interviews for both Removal
of Conditions(with my wife) and Naturalization
Apr 14 2005 - attended both interviews (took only 30 mins)
Apr 20 2005 - received N-445 notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony in
St. Paul on May 18 2005.

With all of our applications, we submitted almost everything we could
lay our hands on: joint bank statements, utility bills, mortgage, tax
returns, travel records, wedding invitations, xmas cards, affidavits
from friends, photos

Noorah101

    > I'm a new poster to this forum, but have been a frequent visitor over
    > the past couple of years. You guys have been an excellent source of
    > information and entertainment over that time. I wanted to thank all of
    > you for sharing your experiences and offering advice. I never posted a
    > question, as everything I needed to know had already been asked. But
    > now I want to give something back by providing my timeline and
    > experience, as my journey from fiance to US citizen is almost
    > complete. Hopefully this will be of help to some people out there.
    > Jan 2001 - applied for fiance visa in Sydney, Australia
    > Jun 2001 - attended interview in Sydney and received approval of
    > fiance visa
    > Jul 2001 - entered US
    > Aug 2001 - married in Minneapolis, MN
    > Sep 2001 - filed I-485
    > Apr 2002 - received 2 yr conditional green card
    > Jan 3 2004 - filed I-751 with NSC (90 days before green card expired)
    > Jan 3 2005 - filed N-400 with NSC (still no word on I-751)
    > Feb 24 2005 - had fingerprints taken in St. Paul
    > Mar 16 2005 - received notice to appear for interviews for both
    > Removal of Conditions(with my wife) and Naturalization
    > Apr 14 2005 - attended both interviews (took only 30 mins)
    > Apr 20 2005 - received N-445 notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony in
    > St. Paul on May 18 2005.
    > With all of our applications, we submitted almost everything we could
    > lay our hands on: joint bank statements, utility bills, mortgage, tax
    > returns, travel records, wedding invitations, xmas cards, affidavits
[q1]> from friends, photos

Waterpony

    > I'm a new poster to this forum, but have been a frequent visitor over
    > the past couple of years. You guys have been an excellent source of
    > information and entertainment over that time. I wanted to thank all of
    > you for sharing your experiences and offering advice. I never posted a
    > question, as everything I needed to know had already been asked. But
    > now I want to give something back by providing my timeline and
    > experience, as my journey from fiance to US citizen is almost
    > complete. Hopefully this will be of help to some people out there.
    > Jan 2001 - applied for fiance visa in Sydney, Australia
    > Jun 2001 - attended interview in Sydney and received approval of
    > fiance visa
    > Jul 2001 - entered US
    > Aug 2001 - married in Minneapolis, MN
    > Sep 2001 - filed I-485
    > Apr 2002 - received 2 yr conditional green card
    > Jan 3 2004 - filed I-751 with NSC (90 days before green card expired)
    > Jan 3 2005 - filed N-400 with NSC (still no word on I-751)
    > Feb 24 2005 - had fingerprints taken in St. Paul
    > Mar 16 2005 - received notice to appear for interviews for both
    > Removal of Conditions(with my wife) and Naturalization
    > Apr 14 2005 - attended both interviews (took only 30 mins)
    > Apr 20 2005 - received N-445 notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony in
    > St. Paul on May 18 2005.
    > With all of our applications, we submitted almost everything we could
    > lay our hands on: joint bank statements, utility bills, mortgage, tax
    > returns, travel records, wedding invitations, xmas cards, affidavits
[q1]> from friends, photos

Ian-Mstm

    > I'm a new poster to this forum, but have been a frequent visitor over
    > the past couple of years. You guys have been an excellent source of
    > information and entertainment over that time. I wanted to thank all of
    > you for sharing your experiences and offering advice. I never posted a
    > question, as everything I needed to know had already been asked. But
    > now I want to give something back by providing my timeline and
    > experience, as my journey from fiance to US citizen is almost
    > complete. Hopefully this will be of help to some people out there.
    > Jan 2001 - applied for fiance visa in Sydney, Australia
    > Jun 2001 - attended interview in Sydney and received approval of
    > fiance visa
    > Jul 2001 - entered US
    > Aug 2001 - married in Minneapolis, MN
    > Sep 2001 - filed I-485
    > Apr 2002 - received 2 yr conditional green card
    > Jan 3 2004 - filed I-751 with NSC (90 days before green card expired)
    > Jan 3 2005 - filed N-400 with NSC (still no word on I-751)
    > Feb 24 2005 - had fingerprints taken in St. Paul
    > Mar 16 2005 - received notice to appear for interviews for both
    > Removal of Conditions(with my wife) and Naturalization
    > Apr 14 2005 - attended both interviews (took only 30 mins)
    > Apr 20 2005 - received N-445 notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony in
    > St. Paul on May 18 2005.
    > With all of our applications, we submitted almost everything we could
    > lay our hands on: joint bank statements, utility bills, mortgage, tax
    > returns, travel records, wedding invitations, xmas cards, affidavits
[q1]> from friends, photos

Evoal2003

    > I'm a new poster to this forum, but have been a frequent visitor over
    > the past couple of years. You guys have been an excellent source of
    > information and entertainment over that time. I wanted to thank all of
    > you for sharing your experiences and offering advice. I never posted a
    > question, as everything I needed to know had already been asked. But
    > now I want to give something back by providing my timeline and
    > experience, as my journey from fiance to US citizen is almost
    > complete. Hopefully this will be of help to some people out there.
    > Jan 2001 - applied for fiance visa in Sydney, Australia
    > Jun 2001 - attended interview in Sydney and received approval of
    > fiance visa
    > Jul 2001 - entered US
    > Aug 2001 - married in Minneapolis, MN
    > Sep 2001 - filed I-485
    > Apr 2002 - received 2 yr conditional green card
    > Jan 3 2004 - filed I-751 with NSC (90 days before green card expired)
    > Jan 3 2005 - filed N-400 with NSC (still no word on I-751)
    > Feb 24 2005 - had fingerprints taken in St. Paul
    > Mar 16 2005 - received notice to appear for interviews for both
    > Removal of Conditions(with my wife) and Naturalization
    > Apr 14 2005 - attended both interviews (took only 30 mins)
    > Apr 20 2005 - received N-445 notice of Naturalization Oath Ceremony in
    > St. Paul on May 18 2005.
    > With all of our applications, we submitted almost everything we could
    > lay our hands on: joint bank statements, utility bills, mortgage, tax
    > returns, travel records, wedding invitations, xmas cards, affidavits
[q1]> from friends, photos

Boiler

    > Not to sure about this ^, but the rest was interesting to say the
    > least. 4 yrs 4 months I thought it was alot longer process than that.
    > all the best to you.
    > alan

Congrats

Presumably the sunny day bit was to prove that you had obtained a
Kindergarten level of education.

The quiz seems a lot harder then the driving test. Do you have to get
100%?

I am assuming they give you the pat answers, one at least could be
contentious.

Andrea874

    > Congrats
    > Presumably the sunny day bit was to prove that you had obtained a
    > Kindergarten level of education.
    > The quiz seems a lot harder then the driving test. Do you have to
    > get 100%?
    > I am assuming they give you the pat answers, one at least could be
    > contentious.

Those questions sound hard

Noorah101

    > Congrats
    > Presumably the sunny day bit was to prove that you had obtained a
    > Kindergarten level of education.
    > The quiz seems a lot harder then the driving test. Do you have to
    > get 100%?
    > I am assuming they give you the pat answers, one at least could be
    > contentious.

Hi Boiler,

Having them write a simple sentence is to show comprehension and some
rudimentary level of writing. Mr. Folinsky even said once that it's ok
if they write it out phonetically (as in "tudey is a suni dey") as long
as it shows they can write something close to what you said.

Rene

Noorah101

    > Those questions sound hard

I agree with you, andrea! I'm wondering, if someone's English isn't
good enough to understand the meaning of those questions (there's some
hard vocabulary in there!), will they fail? Can they have an
interpreter? Do they have to go learn more English for another year or
two and then try again? Hmmmm....

Rene

Boiler

    > Hi Boiler,
    > Having them write a simple sentence is to show comprehension and some
    > rudimentary level of writing. Mr. Folinsky even said once that it's
    > ok if they write it out phonetically (as in "tudey is a suni dey") as
    > long as it shows they can write something close to what you said.
    > Rene

The 5 year old has gone to the baby sitter, I will see how she
does tomorrow.

I know the questions are in a booklet, is it available on line?

I think I know 6, could have a good shot at 3 and 1 would be a guess.

But if you have 100 questions and answers to remember and most of them
are general knowledge anyway, it should not be too bad.