US Immigration from Australia

Hey everyone,

its been a long time since I have been on this site. But I am in the process of citizenship after living here in USA for 9 years!

I sent off my paper work via mail yesterday. I was eligible for the fees to be waived because of our income, below 150%.

I came across this by accident, I wish I had known sooner, because I had being putting off applying because of the $750! and going up every year.

Has anyone experienced filing for citizenship and the fee waiver? I am not sure what to expect. Would they approve the fee waiver pretty quickly after they get to my application?

or would it go through the whole process and find out months later? I read that they don't usually deny fee waivers if everything checks out.

Anyone here experience the process before? and enlighten me with their experience

I had my K-1 interview at the Sydney Consulate on the 8th of December and I was approved (yay!) They said it'd take 10-15 days to receive my visa, but I was wondering if anyone, especially in Victoria, has received it earlier than 10 days at all.

I checked the status of it on the CEAC site yesterday and today, and overnight it changed from Adminstrative Processing to Issued, and checking my passport status on US Travel Docs it said that it is being processed for delivery, and I was wondering if that might mean I could be expecting it sooner rather than later? I'm super excited regardless! Any insight would be much appreciated.

We are grateful our case is now in transit . I have done the DHL hack and it says the shipment is 7 pieces . My question is, is that 7 boxes of K1s or only 7 individual K1s?

Makes a big difference on appointment wait times. Sydney consulate.

Hello,

We live in NZ and are preparing to submit application for CRBA/passport (the Consulate here is open and processing such things). My question is on the form DS-2029, specifically questions 23/25, which ask for "Precise Periods of Time in US".

I assume based on "precise" that this requires my husband (the US citizen) and I (the Australian parent) to list each and every time we entered US immigration. Which will probably be about 2 pages, because as an international couple who lived in the US for 5 years, we traveled a lot (lucky us! But a lot of records will need to be tracked down).

However this gave me pause: reading the DS11-7 form (application for a passport) which we'll be submitting at the same time, it says in the Guidelines under "Proof of US citizenship" that if you claim citizenship through birth abroad to at least one US citizen parent, the CRBA will require "all of your US citizen parents' periods and places of residence/physical presence in the US and abroad before your birth."

There were many times when we traveled for vacation, such that our residence stayed "US" but our physical presence was abroad.

Anyway, presumably we need to list each and every trip we took outside the US (For my husband - since birth; for me - since I moved to the US) which is going to take sooooo long so before I do that, I just wanted to double check that's really what's required.

Thank you!!

Oh and also re. documents to show proof of husband's physical presence in US - he lived there until he was in his late 20s so he has high school/college transcripts, employment records and medical records. But we only have scans or print-outs from online records (e.g. medical office only provided electronic copies). Should we just bring everything we have? Or do we need to actually get original hard copies sent over to us from the US?

Thank you!!

Hi All,

I realize someone posted about having this issue back in January, but given all that's happened this year, I thought I might try again. The NVC has approved all of my Australian husband and I's documents, except for the National Police Check. They rejected our first upload October 20th, and it took nearly a month for my husband to get fingerprints done, mail them off, have them reviewed, and then a new PC mailed back to him. He uploaded a new National Police Check (Full Disclosure and matches exactly what the CEAC asked for) on November 18th, but they've rejected it again with no further explanation. Someone before had mentioned writing in the document comments that we did, in fact, upload exactly what was requested and available according to the Australian Federal Police (the issuing authority), but I wondered if anyone had luck with any other method? This is beyond devastating, really, and just feels incredibly helpless. What else can you do but follow the directions you're given??

**Note: We have an immigration attorney who is helping us, but she's not sure why this is happening either!