Help with N600 Question

[Glady 0]

My sister came to the US from Canada sponsored by her father and has a green card. She is under 18 and the father intended to apply for Citizenship but unfortunatly he died 2 days after she entered. My question is can she still file on her own? Thank

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

What was father status at the time of his death?

[MayLiana72 2]

If he was not citizen, she can live with her green card and apply for citizenship after 5 years. Sorry for her lost.

[senthilskp12 0]

Hi:

I am going to apply for my citizenship soon. Just to be proactive I have been looking at the N-400 Appln form. Everything looks pretty simple straight forward questions and I answered all the questions. This was till I came to the Part 10 .. Section D..Good Moral Character...I dont know if I should answer Yes or No for questions 15, 16, 17 and 18.

Here is what I am confused about.

I have one Parking Ticket, think 2 speeding tickets.

Cop had pulled me over and given tickets for these violations. Paid the fines right away. No Court nothing was involved. And all these 3 fines were less than $500.00.

So now

Question 15: Have you ever committed a crime or offense for which you were NOT arrested

Speeding and Parking ticket is not a crime but an offense. And I was not arrested for this minor traffic offense.

So should I answer YES for this question?

Question 16: Have you ever been arrested, detained or Cited by an law enforcement officer for any reason?

I have never been arrested. But getting those 2 speeding tickets means I was cited by cop (law enforcement officer)and in order to issue those tickets he had to pull me over, run my plates and what not. So is pulling over for a traffic violation being detained?

Since I was cited (issued speeding ticket by a cop)

Should I answer YES for this question?

Question 17: Have you ever been charged with committing any crime or Offense?

Again I have not committed any crime. But traffic violation is a traffic offense. Cop did charge me with that speeding

offense.

Should I answer YES for this question?

Question 18: Have you ever been convicted of a crime or offense?

Again I have not committed any crime so never been convicted of any crime. But cop did say I was speeding and issued me tickets and I paid the fines. Does it mean the cop issuing those tickets and me paying those tickets mean I was convicted of speeding? Convicted seems like a word not appropriate for a traffic offense?

Should I answer YES for this question?

Also from what I have read online parking tickets dont matter at all. So should I even mention about that offense on the form?

Thanks to all..

[aaron2020 11,651]

Hi:

I am going to apply for my citizenship soon. Just to be proactive I have been looking at the N-400 Appln form. Everything looks pretty simple straight forward questions and I answered all the questions. This was till I came to the Part 10 .. Section D..Good Moral Character...I dont know if I should answer Yes or No for questions 15, 16, 17 and 18.

Here is what I am confused about.

I have one Parking Ticket, think 2 speeding tickets.

Cop had pulled me over and given tickets for these violations. Paid the fines right away. No Court nothing was involved. And all these 3 fines were less than $500.00.

So now

Question 15: Have you ever committed a crime or offense for which you were NOT arrested

Speeding and Parking ticket is not a crime but an offense. And I was not arrested for this minor traffic offense.

So should I answer YES for this question?

Question 16: Have you ever been arrested, detained or Cited by an law enforcement officer for any reason?

I have never been arrested. But getting those 2 speeding tickets means I was cited by cop (law enforcement officer)and in order to issue those tickets he had to pull me over, run my plates and what not. So is pulling over for a traffic violation being detained?

Since I was cited (issued speeding ticket by a cop)

Should I answer YES for this question?

Question 17: Have you ever been charged with committing any crime or Offense?

Again I have not committed any crime. But traffic violation is a traffic offense. Cop did charge me with that speeding

offense.

Should I answer YES for this question?

Question 18: Have you ever been convicted of a crime or offense?

Again I have not committed any crime so never been convicted of any crime. But cop did say I was speeding and issued me tickets and I paid the fines. Does it mean the cop issuing those tickets and me paying those tickets mean I was convicted of speeding? Convicted seems like a word not appropriate for a traffic offense?

Should I answer YES for this question?

Also from what I have read online parking tickets dont matter at all. So should I even mention about that offense on the form?

Thanks to all..

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