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My wife had a interview today, we have a joint sponsor who filed her taxes with her husband, we gave a note to say she didnt want o use him as a sponsor, her income was enough for 5 people, at the interview they denied my wife and said my joint sponsor didnt make enough and because she doesnt have a phone couldnt call me then they wouldnt let her back in to try to make her case and show the documents again proving that here is the w2s, the letter saying no need for husband to be a joint sponsor and we had transcript, my wife is pregnant and we got expedite because it is high risk

Hello All,

I am a US Citizen and sponsored my Canadian wife to the US, who currently holds her US Green Card since June 2021.

My wife's Canadian passport renewal application was denied because it said she isn't a Canadian Citizen, even though she has the Canadian citizenship card ID and ceremonial certificate from 2001.

I asked ChatGPT what it thinks happened, and it stated:

"Your old Canadian citizenship card is still legally valid proof that you are a Canadian citizen even though they stopped issuing those cards in 2012. Canada s official rules still list citizenship cards as accepted proof of citizenship.

What changed in 2012 is how Canada issues new proof of citizenship. They moved to a newer paper citizenship certificate that s easier for the government s systems to check electronically.

Because your card is older and doesn t have the newer certificate number or barcode, Passport Canada s automated system may not have been able to find your citizenship record in their database. When it can t automatically verify the record, it sometimes produces a confusing message like you are not a Canadian citizen even though legally you still are. This isn t a true loss of citizenship it s a technical/administrative mismatch between the old document and the current verification system.

This is a known situation: many people with older citizenship cards run into verification problems because Passport Canada s systems expect the newer certificate format. In those cases, either a manual check of the original citizenship record or applying for the newer citizenship certificate solves the issue.

So the problem was likely not that your citizenship ended, but that the passport office couldn t electronically confirm the old card in the system. That s why we re planning to ask the consulate to manually check your record if they confirm it, the passport can be processed without waiting for a new certificate."

It recommends scheduling with the Canadian Consulate in Washington State where we live, and discuss with them to resolve this issue.

I wanted to know if anyone else in this forum had this issue as well? What were your outcomes?

Thank you everyone in advance!

Hello, well I'm filing the Form I-130A (wife already filed the I-130), and in the part of employment history I have some questions... Before coming to the US I was self employed, working almost exclusively with one company, but in the end I was self employed. Then, 2 months ago I came to the US and of course haven't worked since.

First question, in current employment, I have to put "unemployed" right? and the dates are since I came to the US to this day.

Second question, before that, how do I fill my self employed phase? In Name of Employer do I put my name or I just put "Self-employed"? same with address. And in the "occupation" section, do I have to put what my work was? (I was a financial consultant).

And lastly, I have had some unemployed months in the past 5 years, do I also have to put them in here?

Thank you all so much!

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Hello,

I have received this E-mail from "TAM-Adjudications@uscis.dhs.gov" both before and after my interview was done asking requesting to upload additional documents that I may see as evidence of our relationship. Before the interview, I have opted not to upload anything and just let the officer take from us what he needs, but he never asked us for any documents.

Is there any reason why I am getting again this after my interview was done 2 months ago? Do I need to upload additional documents? I am confused. Is this like an automated message or something?

Thank you in advance!