A few question with N400

[pacificleye 4]

Okay, I have been reading about the N400 process and already filled out my application. I will be eligible to send it as early as December of this year. I wanna prepare and be ready.

Now while filling out the application I have to say one detail is very confusing to me, the question regarding the selective service. The way the question is worded is very confusing.

Well I have been in the US since I was 21 years of age but under an F1 student visa. I applied for the green card after my marriage to a USc. Now I did not select the selective service because I was already 27 years old and it said on that application that since I was over 26 I was exempt from selective service.

Now on the N400 it asks for a status information letter. Do I have to provide for one even tho I was here as a student up till I was 27 years old at which time I became a PR? I get this from the eligibility worksheet:

"I am a male who was in the United States

between the ages of 18 and 26 but who did

not register with the Selective Service, and I

will send a “Status Information Letter” from

the Selective Service explaining why I did not

register with my application."

Sorry if this question was already asked by someone previously but I did scour this topic and did not find a definitive answer to this question.

Also about evidence regarding my relationship with my wife I seem to understand that I have to send financial info from ever since we got married? Is it because they don't have our info from the previous applications(i751 removal and 485 adjustment)? So send taxes from previous 3 years, bank statements, credit card statement, leases and rent history, birth certificate for our kid and various hospital papers showing we are both in charge of our kid.. Should that be enough ?

Also I know this is too far ahead but how is the test? Is the IO gonna just ask orally and I will answer or am I missing something?

At the interview, would I have to bring my old(2 year green card) and current 10 years GC as well? Will they take them away( will not need them, just like to know what to expect lol)

Lotsa question, redundant maybe but I thought I'd wanna be prepared since this would be my last dealing with them in my account...Hopefully lol

Edited August 29, 2011 by pacificleye

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

No, you did not have to register with Selective Services. Only citizens and residents are required and allowed to register.

The only "evidence" you send in is the tax transcripts, as outlined in the Guides. The keyword is "or."

The test is only orally and a blind Chihuahua can pass it.

You only bring your current card to the interview. You'll get it back and then surrender it at the Oath Ceremony. Keep the 2-year card for your grandchildren.

[NickD 202]

No, you did not have to register with Selective Services. Only citizens and residents are required and allowed to register.

The only "evidence" you send in is the tax transcripts, as outlined in the Guides. The keyword is "or."

The test is only orally and a blind Chihuahua can pass it.

You only bring your current card to the interview. You'll get it back and then surrender it at the Oath Ceremony. Keep the 2-year card for your grandchildren.

Agree with selective service, just type in N/A.

That new evidence supplement shows more than tax transcripts for the three year, proof of marriage, divorces if any with divorce papers, marriage certificate, and proof of marriage to your current US citizen spouse.

In regards to proof of living together, required everything you needed for the AOS and the I-751, plus everything updated. But I see they added a lot of "ors" in just that supplement, but not in the instructions nor the M-476 manual. Could just bring in your tax transcripts and get a bunch of RFE's.

Or just wait another two years, then you can skip all that extra evidence.

[pacificleye 4]

Thanks for the fast replies guys. I would wait for the 5 years to be up, but time is really against me. I want to petition for my two lil brothers back home in Africa. They are 9 and 13 and I would really like to take them off of my parents hand and have them here with me especially for their education purpose. My parent still can take care for them, but it is a lot easier for my to take care of them( both my parents didn't go to school so it is difficult for my them and my lil bros).

Now that is why I wanna apply for it asap. Also I did ask for some info regarding the best way to get them over here fast bypassing the 10+ years of wait for relatives of USC on the thread about bringing family members of USC but the answers there are scarce to say the least.

And I don't know if it would be ok to ask them here since people seem to be on here more than on there.

I'll go ahead and ask. Well here is how I plan on going about it:

I was going to petition for my mom or dad so they can get their green card, the once they are approved they could petition for my lil bros(which should take about 2 to 3 years or so. Am I correct? Also my parent could petition for my baby sister who is here legally as a college student... Is that correct?

Sorry I don't mean to jump to the guns for anything can happen between now and then but I just wanna be prepared and see what are my options?

[aleful 1,905]

Thanks for the fast replies guys. I would wait for the 5 years to be up, but time is really against me. I want to petition for my two lil brothers back home in Africa. They are 9 and 13 and I would really like to take them off of my parents hand and have them here with me especially for their education purpose. My parent still can take care for them, but it is a lot easier for my to take care of them( both my parents didn't go to school so it is difficult for my them and my lil bros).

Now that is why I wanna apply for it asap. Also I did ask for some info regarding the best way to get them over here fast bypassing the 10+ years of wait for relatives of USC on the thread about bringing family members of USC but the answers there are scarce to say the least.

And I don't know if it would be ok to ask them here since people seem to be on here more than on there.

I'll go ahead and ask. Well here is how I plan on going about it:

I was going to petition for my mom or dad so they can get their green card, the once they are approved they could petition for my lil bros(which should take about 2 to 3 years or so. Am I correct? Also my parent could petition for my baby sister who is here legally as a college student... Is that correct?

Sorry I don't mean to jump to the guns for anything can happen between now and then but I just wanna be prepared and see what are my options?

it's not that the answers are scarce, that's the amount of waiting time for family.

once you become a USC, if you file for siblings, it will take 10 plus years.

you can file for each of your parents, once they become LPR, they can file for their children, of course, they will have to present the affidavit of support for each of them and find joint sponsors.

and as for your sister here in college, as long as her student visa is valid, then she can adjust status in the US.

[NickD 202]

We had three reasons to apply for the three year, problems with the I-751, wife wanted to petition for her unmarried son, he was barely over 21 during our AOS stage, could petition for his sister, but not for him, third reason so we wouldn't have to drive down to Chicago and fight to keep her foreign passport valid. Why do you want your countries passport while you are living here?

So this is how we sit today.

Green cards in our life our history, that's one out of three.

We were strongly advised to wait until my wife got her citizenship, she could have petitioned as a LPR for her unmarried son over 21, but was told the process will go much quicker overall if she waited until she was a US citizen. We applied the day after, processing times now are over five years, called my senators office on this, they can't do a thing about it. Still one out of three.

Her country would not admit her with a US passport with her place of birth in her US passport, we had to go through their crooked notaries, but refused to give them money under the table to expedite it. Her consulate in Chicago was far more friendly this time, but still cost us about $1,500.00 with hidden fees to re-established her countries citizenship and get a new passport. So this is still one out of three.

My comment when filling out the N-400, yes, I signed her form and gather all the evidence, was, were in the hell did the USCIS think they got her green card from, a Cracker Jack box? The evidence was a combination of both the AOS and the I-751 with updates.

Since I already had all the previous forms on my computer, filling out the N-400 was a copy and paste operation, they already had all that information. Wife told me her file was over 3" thick when she saw it at her interview.

[pacificleye 4]

it's not that the answers are scarce, that's the amount of waiting time for family.

once you become a USC, if you file for siblings, it will take 10 plus years.

you can file for each of your parents, once they become LPR, they can file for their children, of course, they will have to present the affidavit of support for each of them and find joint sponsors.

and as for your sister here in college, as long as her student visa is valid, then she can adjust status in the US.

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah regarding the support I could me and my older brother handle it easy, but I just wanted to know which would be shorter, whether it was me as a USC filing for my siblings or go about it through my parents. Do you guys know about wait times for my sister in the US and my lil bros in Africa once my parents are approved?

[aleful 1,905]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah regarding the support I could me and my older brother handle it easy, but I just wanted to know which would be shorter, whether it was me as a USC filing for my siblings or go about it through my parents. Do you guys know about wait times for my sister in the US and my lil bros in Africa once my parents are approved?

the waiting time is the same, currently a little over 3 years for unmarried children under 21, and your sister here in the US has to maintain her valid student visa until her priority date becomes current, if not, she will go through consular processing just like your other brothers.

and how old is she if she's in college here? the problem is if she turns 21 and if she qualifies for CSPA

because until you become a USC, then file for your parents, and they come to the US and then they file for your siblings. it takes time.

[pacificleye 4]

the waiting time is the same, currently a little over 3 years for unmarried children under 21, and your sister here in the US has to maintain her valid student visa until her priority date becomes current, if not, she will go through consular processing just like your other brothers.

and how old is she if she's in college here? the problem is if she turns 21 and if she qualifies for CSPA

because until you become a USC, then file for your parents, and they come to the US and then they file for your siblings. it takes time.

Oh she is 28 years old. right now she is doing her CPO(she just had her Bachelor in business). Next after her year off she will be going for her masters.

So you mean the process once my parent become PR would take an additional 3 years or so? I would take that any day rather than the long wait of 10 years+.

In the main time I think she can try to apply for the Lottery DEV you never know she might get lucky lol.

[aleful 1,905]

Oh she is 28 years old. right now she is doing her CPO(she just had her Bachelor in business). Next after her year off she will be going for her masters.

So you mean the process once my parent become PR would take an additional 3 years or so? I would take that any day rather than the long wait of 10 years+.

In the main time I think she can try to apply for the Lottery DEV you never know she might get lucky lol.

it's more than 8 years, so it won't be much difference, maybe a year or two less than if you filed for her.

now can she study in the US for 9 more years? or can she find a way to stay legal for 9 years or more?

[pacificleye 4]

it's more than 8 years, so it won't be much difference, maybe a year or two less than if you filed for her.

now can she study in the US for 9 more years? or can she find a way to stay legal for 9 years or more?

Well that was my main concern lol I would doubt that she could stay legal for that many years just being a student lol. Well the only other plausible other way would be to get my mother to have her Lpr for 5 years, then she could easily petition for them once she get her Citizenship, but still same lengh. But I don't think my mom would like that, being away from my lil bro leaving them behind lol... Unless they could come here as visitors which is another story lol... Anywho !

Well thank you very much for these insightful answers. Really appreciated the help. I had asked these same question about 3 months ago and really couldn't find any definite answers, glad someone could help =D