Citizenship interview - not approved!

The law provides that USCIS has 120 days to make a decision on an application for naturalization after your interview. Often cases are resolved before that time, but some are not. An officer may tell you "30 days" but in reality that does not mean anything. You may hear something in that time period, you may not. Further, you may not necessarily get an approval, but a request for additional information or a second interview or even a denial depending upon why the case was not considered approvable to begin with. For naturalization purposes, the fact that records may have been submitted with your green card application is generally irrelevant. Each application must stand on its own. You must submit certified copies of the arrest report and disposition of each arrest (the disposition alone is insufficient). If those records are not available then you must submit a certificate of unavailability from the clerk of the court and/or records custodian that the records are no longer available. From what you describe it appears that a certificate of unavailability was not provided either by you at the interview of your attorney at the time of filing. Thus, you may receive an RFE requesting those records. Alternatively, since simple DUI is not a crime involving moral turpitude and the conviction appears to be outside the good moral character period, USCIS may elect to waive the requirement that you submit additional records since they may be in your file already. It is a discretionary decision on the part of the agency and usually requires supervisory concurrence. The fact that you signed an attorney presence waiver does not mean that your attorney is no longer associated with your case. You simply waived your right to have your attorney present during your interview. He or she is still attorney of record and should receive all notices sent by USCIS, but even if you receive something that says a copy was sent to your attorney, be sure to bring it to his or her attention as USCIS often does not send out copies as they have claimed to. At this point you must wait until you hear something from USCIS. Take the 30 days with a grain or salt. Something may or may not happen in that period of time, but the agency has 120 days to make a decision. If you are getting to the end of that period of time with no action then you should discuss how best to proceed with your attorney.