US Immigration from Egypt

(Note: This is for preparation for (eventual) rescheduling for our embassy interview since the police certificate we uploaded to the NVC is now almost a year old)

We dropped off my husbands newest police certificate for translating at a translator's office and instead of making a copy of the police certificate and attaching it to the translation, he attached the original police certificate to the translation! So now the police certificate is no longer a separate document. Does this mean we will need to redo it all over again with a new police certificate? Do the documents need to be seperate? There is no clear instructions of DOS from what I could see.

I TOLD them I wanted them to make a copy of the certificate and attach it to the translation not attach the original. So frustrating.

I am actually unclear if I even needed to translate the police certificate since we are in the issuing country Egypt but i did it just in case.

Thanks everyone!

For those with CR/IR1 visas travelling to the US, has anyone had any trouble transiting through Europe? While we hope to book a direct flight (these are limited as far as the days of the week) and we may need to transit. I know our visa category isn't part of any of the PPs (Europe Travel ban, etc). However, sometimes, the airlines have their own rules or don't apply the PPs consistently. Anyone have any direct experience transiting thru Europe on the way to the US?

Hi there, does NvC transfer pdf to embassy or hard copy? I m confused because embassy emailed me saying hard copy. How long does it take?

Hi everyone. The NVC didn't ask for an upload of the birth certificates of petitioner's children (beneficiary's stepchildren). For the interview, does the beneficiary need to bring these? The stepchildren are US Citizens residing in the US. Due to COVID, it may be difficult to get the originals in time for the appointment.

I got the green card through the DV visa on 3/28/2015 and left the US on 4/6/2015 and came back on 3/20/2016 to stay 11 days and left again on 3/31/2016 and came back on 8/26/2016. I settled down since then and had short vacations outside the US as follows:

2017 - spent 30 days outside the US

2018 - spent 21 days outside the US

2019 - spent 21 days outside the US

2020 - did not travel

Am i eligible to apply for the N400 application as of now and if not what is the earliest date? I think that the 4 years plus one day rule applies to me and the below also applies to me. Can anybody confirm this?

Eligibility After Break in Residence

An applicant who USCIS determines to have broken the continuity of residence must establish a new period of continuous residence in order to become eligible for naturalization.^[15] The requisite duration of that period depends on the basis upon which the applicant seeks to naturalize.^[16] In general, such an applicant may become eligible and may apply for naturalization at least 6 months before reaching the end of the pertinent statutory period.^[17]

Example

An applicant who is subject to a 5-year statutory period for naturalization is absent from the United States for 8 months, returning on August 1, 2018. The applicant has been absent from the United States for more than 6 months but less than 1 year. As such, the applicant must be able to rebut the presumption of a break in the continuity of residence in order to meet the continuous residence requirement for naturalization.

If the applicant is unable to rebut the presumption, he or she must wait until at least 6 months from reaching the 5-year anniversary of the newly established statutory period following the applicant s return to the United States. In this example, the newly established statutory period began on August 1, 2018, when the applicant returned to the United States. Therefore, the earliest the applicant may re-apply for naturalization is February 1, 2023, which is at least 6 months from the 5-year anniversary of the pertinent statutory period.^[18]