Monday July 25th, 2016
We are now US citizens - 41 years and a few days after arriving in Hawaii on July 4th, 1975. Its about time.
The process has been amazingly fast and painless. We submitted our applications in April expecting a 6 to 9 month process. Since then we have been finger printed and interviewed and received the call last week when we were anchored on the Wando.
The ceremony was held at the local USCIS office with about 25 others, from 19 countries in all. We were the only Aussies. Kylie was able to break away from work to attend and take some photos. Our local boater friends organised a celebration that night, which was fun.
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| Taking the oath |
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| With our certificates |
Our local boater friends organized a celebration on "Swede Dreams" followed by dinner out. Out of the 8 of us there were only 3 natural born Americans.
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| Celebration on "Swede Dreams" |
The event has caused some pressure on us because we both leave the USA in 3 weeks and need US passports. We keep our Australian passports (so we can leave!) but we were required to hand in our green cards, and thus will need a USA passport to reenter the USA. So we spend most of Tuesday running around Charleston organizing expedited issue of our new USA passports. Now we just have to sit and wait.
Saturday July 30, 2016
Kylie called last night - our passports had arrived by express mail. Not bad - 3 days from apply to receive.
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