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YecaCruz

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  • Gender
    Female
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    Mandan
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    North Dakota
  • Interests
    Cats. Farming. Jesus. Chocolate. MacGyver.

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  • Immigration Status
    Naturalization (approved)
  • Place benefits filed at
    California Service Center
  • Local Office
    Saint Paul MN
  • Country
    Nicaragua
  • Our Story
    Met July 2010 while I served in the communications department for Castillo del Rey in Nicaragua (my fav country in the world). This was my 6th trip to this country. Officially dating as of Sept 15 of 2010. Left to go back to US October 1, 2010. It's been long and hard but also rewarding to have to get to know someone without the distraction of just being "physical". We continued to chat through facebook, emails. Back then he would walk to a cyber café to video chat at least 3 times a week until we were able to go apple and then do facetime. We facetime almost every day. He asked my parents THE QUESTION Nov of 2015. K1 went super fast and he was on ND soil Feb 5. We married in the courthouse the same day.

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  1.    YecaCruz reacted to a post in a topic: Fiancée threatened with deportation by customs agent after arriving at airport for false accusations. How concerned should we be?
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  5. YecaCruz started following Thanksgiving 2023 -- post here , Fiancée threatened with deportation by customs agent after arriving at airport for false accusations. How concerned should we be? , CR-1 After Returning Home and 7 others
  6. YecaCruz
    She's lucky to have a B1/B2 as a young, single person from Latin America. Maybe it's easy to get in Ecuador, but it's near-impossible for a young, single person to get a B1/B2 in Nicaragua. I would have given an arm and a leg for my then fiancé/boyfriend to be able to come visit me; but we made it work, because we had to, with videochats and me taking time to visit him 3 few times over our 6-year separation. As many others have said, the plane flies both ways. Make plans to go see her; get to know her family and culture better. Many have offered some very good perspectives and it's important to evaluate this past experience through a CBP-lens.
  7. YecaCruz
    She should also consider the political atmosphere in Nicaragua right now too and all the things Daniel is doing to make life extremely difficult non-orteguistas; no work without the sandinista card, heavy CPC presence in many neighborhoods watching and listening for people "who've got something to say", police intimidation, rising local crime. While some parolees were lucky and went back without issue, others have experienced a lot of scrutiny coming back to Nic, including having to surrender a whole bunch of really detailed and personal information as part of a "census". Lord only knows what they are planning to do with all that information. It's not a good situation to go back to right now for many people. While it absolutely sucks that her sister is very ill, I would hope she considers the pros vs cons here very carefully. She needs to think with her head and not her heart. She has filed an asylum claim stating that if she returns back to the county she will be targeted and harmed! That is a bell that once rung, cannot be undone. "No one would return back to a place with such a threat" is how USCIS will see it. Good luck! I hope she decides to stay and see the I130 process through to the end instead of starting over. There are a lot of unknowns right now (in both countries) and there's no telling if processing times will get better or worsen.
  8.    YecaCruz reacted to a post in a topic: Looking to live and work permanently together with my UK girlfriend ASAP. Which would be faster: getting married while she is here on an ESTA and beginning the IR-1 after she returns, or just getting engaged and then starting the K-1?
  9.    Crazy Cat reacted to a post in a topic: Certified Translation - Online translator
  10. YecaCruz
    Yes. If you are fluent in Italian, you can translate and sign your own certification. I translated my husband's birth cert from Spanish to English without any issue
  11.    Carpe Vinum reacted to a post in a topic: Help... Oath Ceremony scheduled when one partner will be out of country.
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  14. YecaCruz
    I feel for you. When my husband did his naturalization ceremony was in the middle of covid in 2020 and they didn't allow visitors. I was super bummed but there were no options. The only picture I got that day when he came home afterwards with an American flag souvenir. I personally would just let him get it done. All the waiting and processing you've had to go through has all led up to this so why delay it even more? The arrival of his US passport in the mail was a much more exciting time for us after everything.
  15. YecaCruz
    I translated my then fiancé's birth cert myself from Span to Eng. with the "certification". I utilized word and made it look the same in terms of format and positioning of the text and just wrote everything in English, including the stamps. Not sure if it has to be that detailed but that's just how I do things. Never received an RFE or anything regarding that as what USCIS specifies only is that the translator must be someone who is competent in both languages.
  16.    powerpuff reacted to a post in a topic: US Citizen with a stable union in Brazil to a Brazilian resident.
  17. YecaCruz
    Ah thanks for that quick correction!
  18. YecaCruz
    Get married then file the i130/i485. K1 has no advantages anymore
  19. YecaCruz
    Same. I'm the paralegal of the Cruz home lol. Good luck in the process and if you think of it, let us (or me know) how it goes. It would be nice to have someone to compare notes with especially since we both are from Nicaragua...well my husband is anyway...I'm 100% chela!
  20. YecaCruz
    Congrats on getting them through the parole process. Marriage to a US citizen or asylum are probably the only ways the will be able to "stay" although the former is not a guarantee unless you can argue a strong, positive case. Right now, I don't see that there is a renewal option after the 2 years are up. That would be nice as things probably won't change in 2 years. I helped out friend/husband's brother-from-another-mother submit his asylum application last weekend with several 3rd party documentation supporting country conditions and a 2 page declaration. I helped him write out the declaration and translated anything that was in Spanish. Before you do so, I suggest the "political asylum lawyers" youtube channel. There are a TON of great guide videos and tips; and it is worth spending a few days acclimating yourself with the different parts of the process. Asylum doesn't seem DIY and it's probably totally worth getting a lawyer to help out but neither us nor our friend has thousands of dollars to drop but with enough research it is possible. If this is the route your family will take the application must be submitted within 1 year of them being here.
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  23. YecaCruz
    This guy gives zero fluffs today; it's not like he pays the mortgage!
  24. YecaCruz
    agreed. MX primary language is Spanish so it makes no sense that they would need anything translated from Spanish. I just wanted to answer if they need a professional to translate docs, which they don't and can save money.
  25. YecaCruz
    I translated all my husband's docs myself with no problems
  26. YecaCruz
    I can't even compare to why we chose K1 in 2016 due to the current circumstances, and it obviously worked out for me with a miraculous processing time of barely 3 months and an equally miraculous processing time for his green-card (see signature) Given that processing times right now really yield no difference between the 2 options I would echo what many others are stating; get hitched now! You already know that you guys want to take that step and you have a huge advantage of being together now. Having to involve yourselves in immigrations will of course complicate things a bit and certainly take the luster off of something that is so wonderful. Try to zoom out and get the bigger picture which are the many previously listed disadvantages and costs of the mandatory steps to be taken if you go with a K1. I looked at everything with USCIS glasses on for a while because that's just what I had to do with citizenship as the end goal. My wedding ring is a cheapo stainless-steel thing and while its nothing to look at but it's very significant for me. I would think your family will be thrilled to celebrate your marriage no matter how much later it is from the ceremony. Save even more money and splurge on a nice ring for your 5 year or 10-year anniversary if that is something of importance to you. Good luck in coming to a decision!
  27. YecaCruz
    Made turkey first time ever. I think I left in the oven too long as it was just starting to dry up. Lesson learned! but people went back for seconds so must not have been too bad. All the lefse is gone and they compared it to a very similar Nica treat (though not made from potatoes). Ate up a huge cauldron of rice in less than 24 hours and fried up some beef and leftover-turkey Nicaraugan tacos with a repollo salad and sour cream (and ketchup which I chose to not put on mine). Finished off the weekend by cheating and ordering pizza...we were all tired of the kitchen at that point hehe!
  28. YecaCruz
    It will be a very gringo Thanksgiving at casa Cruz in good 'ole NoDak to give our Nicaraguan friends a taste of the upper Midwest festivities: turkey, stuffing, cheesy/creamy hashbrown taters, veggies, apple & mini pumpkin pies, along with lefse or as I describe it to them - the Norwegian tortilla. I gotta include part of the ND food traditions thanks to overwhelming majority of us having German or Norsky roots. Turkey stuff on Thursday followed by a weekend of gallo pinto, Nica tacos, pollo a la plancha, rice up to our ears and all the Nicaraguan foods we can manage to churn out of the kitchen in a limited amount of time. Pics to follow!
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