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Ping's N-400 Receipt Date is December 19, 2018. The current processing time in Houston for N-400 is 14 to 25.5 months, so between Feb 19 and around mid-August 2020. Plenty of time to study and prepare for the interview, right? But her interview notice just arrived today, and her interview date is Sep 13, 2019, less than 9 months from her Receipt Date. She must have a great lawyer!

So this forum is where the old-timers hang out. I guess that makes sense, given the passage of time. I see a lot of familiar names on this forum. Ping has been a permanent resident for 10 years now. We filed her N-400 with a Receipt Date of December 19, 2018 and we went to have her biometrics done on January 18, 2019. One of the first places I took Ping and Angela after they arrived in Houston was Costco, and I have not forgotten how Ping whispered a question in my ear when she said she was going to the restroom. "Will they have paper there? Well, ten years later she asked the question again when we were at the Application Support Center on Friday. I guess that concern becomes engrained after you live in China for many years. The processing time in Houston for an N-400 is rather slow these days, with an estimated time range of 17 to 20.5 months the last time I checked. So we are looking at May to September 2020 before she can expect an interview. We live in Fulshear, Texas now, about 20 miles West of where we lived in Houston. We bought a four bedroom home in Cross Creek Ranch in late October and we are almost settled in here. We prepped our home in Houston for sale and the listing just went live on the Internet yesterday. Our new home is a beautiful one-story home in a beautiful neighborhood and we enjoy everything about it. We have more than 20 lakes and some 15 miles of walking trails here, and we walk around the lake nearest our home pretty much every day, often more than once. And we still hold hands everywhere we walk. One of Ping's desires was to live in a home where we can walk our grandchildren (when they arrive and are old enough) to elementary school every day. Our new home meets that desire in a great way. It is just a 10 minute walk along the lake to the elementary school, and many children from our neighborhood walk or ride their bikes to school every day. Another of Ping's desires was to have a home that faces West so that the morning sunshine can flood our bedroom windows. We also met that desire in a big way. We have a wall of windows in our master bedroom, a wall of windows in the living room that adjoins our bedroom, and a wall of windows in Angela's bedroom that adjoins the living room on the other side. Every morning when I get up I open the plantation shutters on our bedroom windows so the morning sunshine can awaken Ping as it floods into our bedroom. There is a 12 foot ceiling in our bedroom and the windows go almost to the top, so that is a lot of sunshine. I open the wooden blinds in the living room so I can enjoy the morning sunshine, and there we have a 16 foot ceiling, and again the windows go to the top. The windows in Angela's bedroom are the same as in our bedroom, but she is usually up and gone to work before the morning sunshine arrives, except on weekends when she sleeps late and enjoys that morning sunshine. Our home is on a cul-de-sac corner, so no through traffic to deal with and no neighbors on the South side except across the street. It is an extended cul-de-sac with about 20 homes on it. Our neighbors directly across the street are a young Chinese couple with two young children. The man's parent's are visiting from China, and to our surprise, his parents are from Shandong Province, just like Ping and Angela. What are the odds of that happening. The little boy's name is Edward, and he is very outgoing, always wanting to talk to us and come in to see our home. The little girl is less than a year old and the grandfather dotes on her, pulling her through the neighborhood in her baby carriage. Ping has been arranging a Chinese New Year's party to be held at our home on February 2. The decorating she has done in our home is exquisitely beautiful, and I know she wants to share it with her friends. I love my home office with French Doors and a wall of windows that face North, and Ping also has a home office at the front of our home, also with French Doors, and her wall of windows face to the West. In my home office I have my partner's desk, leather chairs, and hand-carved mahogany breakfront from my law firm office. In Ping's office we have a gold and black Rosewood desk shaped like a U with paintings of Storks on it, with a matching table and matching cube, and Rosewood chairs, with Angela's Gu Zheng (21 string Chinese zither), that give it the feel of a Chinese Tea Room. I have a wall-mounted flat-screen TV in my home office, and in the living room we have a wall-mounted flat-screen TV with two matching leather recliner/rocking chairs facing it so Ping and I can spend our rocking years together. She and Angela use You Tube to watch their Chinese movies, and I use my TV to keep up with the news and sports. Ping has created a garden in our backyard, complete with many plants and flowers, including some Chinese plants with fragrant flowers, all which we can enjoy from our patio that receives that morning sunshine. We are looking for matching rocking chairs for the patio so we can spend many hours there, just sitting and talking and enjoying the great outdoors in our back yard. But for now I need to stop and enjoy the congee that Ping just placed on my desk. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that my marriage to and life with Ping would be the best thing that ever happened to me, but it is true. We feel very lucky to be together, and Angela is a fantastic daughter as well.