From receiving your receipt notice to the final oath ceremony, I’ll cover all the steps, including how to track your case, the biometrics process, what to expect during the interview, and common issues that could lead to delays or denials.
We’ll also talk about traveling during your N-400 process, preparing for the U.S. history and English tests, and the steps you need to take to avoid any surprises along the way.
Whether you're just starting the process or already filed your case, this video will help you understand each stage and what to watch out for.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction to N-400 Citizenship Process
0:05 - About John Krabi, Immigration Lawyer a
0:07 - Overview of Filing and What to Expect
0:17 - Receipt Notice and Tracking Your Case
0:29 - Online Account Registration
0:42 - Biometrics Appointment Details
0:51 - Traveling While Your Case is Pending
1:11 - Continuous Residence Requirement
1:22 - Case Processing Times
1:29 - Request for Evidence (RFE)
1:40 - Interview Process: US History and English Skills
2:01 - Preparing for the Interview
2:34 - Changing Your Name and Judge’s Role
2:54 - Oath Ceremony Details
3:17 - Post-Interview Approval
3:26 - If Your Case Isn’t Approved
3:45 - Potential Deportation Issues
4:05 - Common Issues Leading to Denials
4:24 - Oath Ceremony Scheduling
4:39 - Receiving Your Naturalization Certificate
4:50 - Applying for a US Passport
5:05 - Planning International Travel
5:27 - Post-Citizenship Benefits
5:53 - Social Security Update
6:27 - Summary of the Process
6:38 - Addressing Potential Issues
7:01 - Importance of Consulting with a Lawyer
7:14 - Contact Information: JQKLaw.com/contact
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What happens after you file for citizenship for and 400 naturalization? I'm immigration lawyer, John Cusabi. I help people get green cards, particularly married couples, and get US citizenship afterwards. And we're going to go through the process from when you file the M400 case to what happens afterwards and what you can expect. First and foremost, after filing the case, you should get a receipt notice for the form and 400 that has a receipt number. And you use that number to track your case on usis.gov within the online account. If you register an online account, if you submit the case by paper and didn't do the online account yet, you'll get another receipt notice. Most of the time, sometimes they don't send it, but you'll have a code on it where you go to myUSis.gov and register your case and get updates there. It's better to do that for citizenship cases so you get notices much faster with regards to appointments, oceremonies, RFVs, or anything like that. Once case has been filed, you may need to do a biometrics appointment notice. This is where they take your photo and your fingerprints. If they've done that recently, you'll get a letter that says the biometrics appointment has been waived, so you don't need to do that, but if they still need it, they'll send you a notice that has date where you need to show up, bring ID, and get those that part taken in. So, once that's submitted, you can wait. Now, you are able to travel while your N400 case is pending. Some people think they're locked in, but you don't want to do excessive travel in a sense that makes it look like you don't live in the United States. You have to maintain continuous residence till the end of the process. While it's pending, and it could be a two or three months case or it could be two or three years, that's all over the place. During election years as fast or right now, 2004, I'm recording this, I'm getting cases done in two or three months, actually it's been pretty fast, but next year, it's going to slow down again because election year is over. While it's pending, they may ask for more evidence. For example, if you didn't send police reports or some background documents that are necessary as a modification, they may request that, but more likely you're going to get an appointment to come and do it in person interview, it's required for all citizenship cases to do that. At the interview stage, you'll go in, do oaths, say I'm going to tell the whole truth, not about the truth, and then sit down, and they're going to ask you about US history questions. You can download the 100 USCIS naturalization questions online, just search Google, you'll find it. You have to get six out of 10 of those correct. Then they're going to go also ask, test you out with your English skills during the interview. The whole thing is an English exam, but they might ask you to write some very simple sentence, and then they're going to go over the form itself before and for 100 application to catch all the potential issues that may exist, but most importantly, it's double checking to make sure your information is correct, your name, date of birth, that kind of stuff, because if they put the wrong date of birth in the system, at that point, it's very hard to almost impossible to fix. It becomes a major problem for you having inconsistent birthdays across different platforms. It happens all the time, unfortunately, but it's something you want to be very careful of. It is possible to change your name or do a name change at the citizenship stage at the interview is where they confirm that, but it depends on which field office you're working with and where your old ceremony is going to happen, because if your interview is approved, you have to come either that day or separate day and do another oath that says I'm going to be a good citizen. I'm going to defend America. If there's no judge at that time, an actual judge, you cannot change your name, a judge has to approve that, and they'll all get to the best, but that's right, but if there's no judge, they can't do it. So a lot of field offices, although the paperwork says you can change your name, you can't actually do it in practice. So the interview happens, and if it's a good interview, most likely it'll be approved and a lot of them are almost all of them are. They'll either give you a letter on the day that says you're approved and we'll send you information about oh, ceremony, but sometimes they don't prove it for various reasons. It could be there's issues with a case where they need more paperwork, so they'll send you a request that either notice of attempted denial or something like that, or a request for evidence that says, hey, we need this, this is missing, which may lead to a denial, and in some cases, unfortunately, if they find issues that are very problematic, it could even lead to immigration deportation, go to immigration court to have your green card taken away and removed from the country because there's major issues. They found that criminal issue that I wasn't told about earlier, they say your marriage was fake, and a lot of stuff that stuff could happen if you don't prep and analyze the case before having to go. But most simplest ones are people who may have a DUI, and the UIs fix and stuff, there's some probation that's automatically denied, it might be people who have other kind of issues where they can't get documents together in time, or they had an absence of more than six months, and they'll say, well, that could be a denial reason, send us more evidence that you're really living, and then maintain the residence in the United States. So all this stuff's possible, but most likely a lot of these cases get approved, you'll get a notice for an oath ceremony eventually to come and show up, could be next day, a week later, could be months later, just depends on how the local field office you're handling and going to is handling the oath ceremony, so it's all different all over the place. In the oath ceremony day, you go with a group of people, you promise to be a good citizen, and they give you a certificate, I'm sorry, they give you a naturalization certificate. That paperwork says you're a citizen, you should sign that. It says, don't make copies of this, but it's not realistic, you should probably take some sort of scan of it, so you have a backup copy. Now, and that's it essentially for those kind of cases, not some important stuff that pops up. First and foremost, you don't automatically get a US passport when this happens, you have to separately apply for a US passport, and one issue we have sometimes is people have travel plans, international ones that they've already chosen, the problem is, if the oath ceremony happens, their green card is taken away, and they won't have any documents to be able to return to the United States with unless they get the passport, so an expedited or emergency passport issuance has to happen, which a lot of work difficult to get, and it's not guaranteed. So if you are going to the citizenship process, especially if an oath ceremony is set up, you really have to plan out when your international travel is, and give like four to six weeks at least between the oath ceremony and when that travel is. And if there's emergency need or you have documentation, potentially you get the passport faster, or you can reschedule the oath ceremony interview just to do something to try to get around that so that if you pay for a big trip, you don't lose it, that's something very important to be mindful of in these cases. And the next thing is once you're a US citizen, you get some extra things you can do, you can apply for fiancees, you can apply for your parent's green cards, you can apply for married children's green cards, and as well as siblings. Now you're talking about our own timeline, you know, a marriage case or fiance case could be a year, two or three, a parent case, but a sibling case, your brother or sister, that could be 15 to 20 years, but it does open up the ability to do these kind of cases. And also finally, the new foreign 400 has a part where they update the Social Security Office that your citizen now, before up here, I do this, I would recommend that they go to Social Security Office and update it there with them, but that's something to be mindful of. So that's a whole process from receipt, biometrics, potentially an RFP, request for evidence, interview oath ceremony, and then afterwards what you can and can't do. And the mixed problems do happen, again, people may have been apps of more than six months lead to denial. They might have had DUI three years ago, but they saw on probation, at least for denial. They may not have registered for a selective service draft, if they're a young male in the United States. There's, they might not have filed taxes or have back taxes. There's all these different things that could pop up that you have to deal with, and it's always best to deal with them before you file the case to not waste money and just waste time, or to fix them ahead of time to just get it when it's done, and I have to deal with the back and forth embrace department, and that's where office comes. And the detail consultation always best. Sometimes you don't need a lawyer for the case, but a consultation needed just to go through your entire history, the spot and the issue that you come up now to try to do your best to avoid those as much as possible. I'm in racial or John, because Robbie, if you want to reach out to office, go to jqklaw.com/contact. Again, that's jqklaw.com/contact, and I wish you the best in your naturalization process. [MUSIC]
