Feel like a noob again helping the wife fill out N-400 questions

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

so for the employment and residence sections you only go back 3 years if applying under marriage?

We went five years just because there was room, and it wasn't that hard to answer that way, just to be safe.

[NickD 202]

so for the employment and residence sections you only go back 3 years if applying under marriage?

Starts at the day you became a LPR for these questions as well as trips outside of the USA.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Wow! That was fast. I dropped the packet off at the local post office on Friday, and it is already scheduled for delivery tomorrow (Monday). We sent it Priority Mail with Confirmation and Tracking for $5.65 instead of Express Mail for $18.50. Good thing I didn't listen to the first postal worker, and checked the rates online for myself.

Edited April 11, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[NickD 202]

Wow! That was fast. I dropped the packet off at the local post office on Friday, and it is already scheduled for delivery tomorrow (Monday). We sent it Priority Mail with Confirmation and Tracking for $5.65 instead of Express Mail for $18.50. Good thing I didn't listen to the first postal worker, and checked the rates online for myself.

Even though you went to the trouble of sending it tracked, now is the time you camp out at your mailbox and open all of your junk mail. I sure get some very official looking junk mail so have to open all of it. Those letters from the USCIS sure look like junk mail, don't want to pitch that.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It was delivered at 11:26 am this morning. Let's see how long before we get an email/text message.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Text message just before midnight. Email this morning. Went to bank online and check is cashed. Case forwarded to National Benefits Center for processing.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

We received the wife's I-797C today. And, wonder of wonders, the Application Number (Case Number) actually works at the USCIS Status Updates. That is different from last year, when we went through the ROC process, and had to wait for our ASC Appointment letter to get a valid online number.

Edited April 18, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[NickD 202]

We received the wife's I-797C today. And, wonder of wonders, the Application Number (Case Number) actually works at the USCIS Status Updates. That is different from last year, when we went through the ROC process, and had to wait for our ASC Appointment letter to get a valid online number.

For my wife, they wrote her receipt number on the check, didn't do that for my stepdaughter, had to wait for the NOA. Least on the processing site, you have an idea when they send your application to your field office, after that, you just watch your mailbox.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

For my wife, they wrote her receipt number on the check, didn't do that for my stepdaughter, had to wait for the NOA. Least on the processing site, you have an idea when they send your application to your field office, after that, you just watch your mailbox.

We got the receipt number by email and by text. I see that form expires in May of this year. I wonder if they will continue the service beyond that day.

Edited April 19, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[NickD 202]

We got the receipt number by email and by text. I see that form expires in May of this year. I wonder if they will continue the service beyond that day.

Wouldn't worry about that, did compare the form released in 2005 with the current one, if there is a difference, I didn't spot it. Still same old questions, how many times were you married, how long have you spent outside of the USA in the last five years when you only been here three, and were you a member of the Nazi party in 1933.

Surprised they didn't ask you if you fought for the British in 1812.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Wouldn't worry about that, did compare the form released in 2005 with the current one, if there is a difference, I didn't spot it. Still same old questions, how many times were you married, how long have you spent outside of the USA in the last five years when you only been here three, and were you a member of the Nazi party in 1933.

Surprised they didn't ask you if you fought for the British in 1812.

No, I was talking about G-1145

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I just checked the mail after getting back from a week-long vacation. We found the ASC Appointment letter for two weeks from now. So of course, we ran down to the center and did a walk-in today at 3pm. The security guard gave us a hard time, but finally relented.

The waiting room was empty.

The wife fills out the forms and hands them back to the young man protecting our freedoms. He says, "Have a seat. We will call your number."

The waiting room was still empty.

Five seconds later, the technician comes up and says, "Number One?"

It was everything I could do to keep a straight face.

[NickD 202]

Ha, that is what it was like in our Milwaukee office, could actually park right in front to the building. The four or five guards there must have been guarding each other as we were the only ones there. They even let me go in with my wife for her prints, man she has big fingers on that computer screen. When she was done, asked for a civics study guide with the CD. That was a mistake, took the guy ten minutes to find one.

We listened to it for the first half hour with our long drive home, but ejected it, it was putting us to sleep.

That G-1145 is entirely optional, we never bothered with that. Just increases the anticipation.

But now your wife has to study those 100 civic questions and answers. We never took that seriously either, just studied those in the car with that other long drive to St. Paul so it was perfectly fresh in their minds. Don't ask me why our interviews are in St. Paul and biometrics in Milwaukee, we just do as we are told. Both answered the first six questions correctly and it was over. How is your wifes' English? Won't be long now until she receives her interview notice.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

But now your wife has to study those 100 civic questions and answers.

http://www.slate.com/id/2286258/pagenum/2

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Ha, that is what it was like in our Milwaukee office, could actually park right in front to the building. The four or five guards there must have been guarding each other as we were the only ones there. They even let me go in with my wife for her prints, man she has big fingers on that computer screen. When she was done, asked for a civics study guide with the CD. That was a mistake, took the guy ten minutes to find one.

We listened to it for the first half hour with our long drive home, but ejected it, it was putting us to sleep.

That G-1145 is entirely optional, we never bothered with that. Just increases the anticipation.

But now your wife has to study those 100 civic questions and answers. We never took that seriously either, just studied those in the car with that other long drive to St. Paul so it was perfectly fresh in their minds. Don't ask me why our interviews are in St. Paul and biometrics in Milwaukee, we just do as we are told. Both answered the first six questions correctly and it was over. How is your wifes' English? Won't be long now until she receives her interview notice.

Her English is fine. She spells better than me. She was an English language transcriptionist in the Philippines. She even transcribed some meetings for the DHS and CDC while working there.

We have links to the study materials for the civics test. We are waiting for her little red book to show up.