{"id":14247,"date":"2025-02-26T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=14247"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:14:55","slug":"us-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=14247","title":{"rendered":"US Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was born in the USA so I am a US Citizen, but today I helped a relative become a US Citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an interesting experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We left my place at about 11:20AM for a 12:10 appointment.  We were informed not to get there more than an 1\/2 an hour before the appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got there and parking was interesting, there was a a kiosk to pay, but opted to use the mobile app.  Parking was $8 but on the app it it was 8.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security was like going through the airport, take off jacket and belt but everything in a bin and get it scanned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you stand in a line and check in.  Upstairs there is a waiting area, I can&#8217;t speak to what happens, cause I was not allowed to go in, but they went into a room when their number was called for an Interview.   What was interesting was that the people next to us got there before us yet got called in after us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall it was a 12:10 appointment, we missed the 1PM ceremony so we hung around till the 2:30 Swearing in ceremony.  The waiting continued in the auditorium but we were doing stuff like swearing in and got the certificate by 3PM.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treated them to a celebration late lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight: 338.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in the USA so I am a US Citizen, but today I helped a relative become a US Citizen. What an interesting experience We left my place at about 11:20AM for a 12:10 appointment. We were informed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=14247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milestone","category-training","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14248,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14247\/revisions\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}