US Immigration from Italy

I applied for my USA passport on the 9th of January and it was received by the passport authorities on the 13th of January. Applied for normal delivery

and the passport was received 16 days later. There is not the need to pay extra for faster processing times. Currently they are quoting 8 to 11 weeks for normal processing

and 2 to 5 weeks for expedited processing. Obviously they have caught up on the backlog and are processing the passports rather quickly. Best...

Hello,

I am a US citizen, who submitted an I-130 a couple weeks ago and just now realized that when the online form transcribed onto my USCIS account, it used the correct mailing address of my parents in the US, but an incorrect old physical address of mine in Germany. I am now in Italy, but the online AR-11 form doesnt allow foreign countries. If my mailing address is fine is it worth submitting a semi-false change? Any advice?

Hi everyone,

I just received a message from NVC stating that my husband's AU Police Check is incorrect, and needs to be from a valid authority.

To my knowledge the AFP National Police Check is the only one.

Anyone having the same issue and was able to resolve it?

Thank you!

Australian Police Check.pdf

Hello everyone! Next week I have my I-751 Divorce Waiver interview. Do I need my lawyer to come to the interview?

Since this interview is to prove the marriage was bona fide I don't see why my lawyer should be there, he is charging me $900 to come.

I used him to file and send the application and answer the RFE.

Should I go by myself?

Hi everyone!

My hubby and I got married in February 2017 and I have been a US permanent resident since November 2017. We lived in the US continuously from January 2017 to December 2020, so over 3 years and 10 months, but then because of the pandemic I lost my job and hubby's income wasn't enough to pay all our expenses so we were forced to move back to my home country (Italy) because we couldn't afford to pay rent and bills in the US anymore and we had no one who could help us or host us there. Our plan was to only stay out of the country for up to 6 months while working at our small online business to be able to make it into a full time income, but 20 days after we moved back to Italy I found out I was pregnant and things changed a lot. With the whole pandemic situation I really did not want to travel while pregnant, on top of the fact that i had a complicated pregnancy and was put on bed rest at 12 weeks, so going back to the US with no jobs and no insurance was out of the picture at that point. We decided to just stay here since I own an apartment in Rome and we don't have to pay for rent. We had our baby girl at the end of August and she is almost 5 months old now, we are doing good here, and as much as we really would like to go back to the US now that we have our business, we would have to start all over again and go back to pay rent which doesn't make sense for us.

So my question at this point is, since I did live for over 3 continuous years in the US, can I still apply for naturalization, or am I just going to lose my green card and the possibility to become a US citizen for as long as we are not able to go back to live in the US permanently? Am I going to have to restart the whole green card process from the beginning if we decide to move back when our daughter is older in a couple of years? We did register her at the US embassy, so she is both a US and Italian citizen and has two passports. We are still very tight to the US, we have family there, kept all our US bank accounts open, and we keep paying quarterly taxes to the IRS and filing for annual taxes since we have income from our business, which is registered in AZ. We would like to be able to go back to visit my husband's family for 3 to 4 months at the end of 2022 but I don't know if they are going to let me in the country at this point.

What do you suggest? How should I go about this? I can't afford to pay for a lawyer right now (having a baby is expensive so we need to keep expenses down as much as possible).

Thank you for your help!