Visa Journey - Update March 2010

Today I got an email from the USCIS notifying me that the application to remove the conditions on the green cards has been approved. Next step: application for naturalization can now be submitted as of the end of December 2010. After that - and another couple of hundreds of dollars - I'll be a US citizen as well as a Dutch citizen, but the average processing time for the N400 application is about 6 months...