US Immigration from Italy

Hi all,

Today (2/14/23), my fiancee had his interview in Napoli, Italy. Both my fiancee and I are Nigerian born. I am a US citizen and he is a permanent resident in Italy. He is currently waiting for his approval for his EU passport. However, his Nigeria passport will be expiring in December 2023, which is more than 6 months. He will be renewing his Nigeria passport tomorrow (this was the original plan). We collected and provided all the documents we need for the interview. The interviewer collected his passport and told him, his application requires administrative processing. There are no additional documentation needed from us. I read online that the processing takes up to 60 days (somewhere said it might be longer). Is this true? Has anyone experience this doing their K1 process in Italy and what was the outcome?

There is an email on the paper that the interviewer circled. We do not know if the interviewer wants us to email them. The problem is we do not know what to email them since they did not ask for additional documents.

Hello everyone,

I have recently learned that since I left USA in 2019 I needed to file a I-407 and as a consequence the form 8854.

But actually reading carefully, I read that only if you are identified as LTR you need to file form 8854 is that correct?

I became LPR in May 2016, changed country for good in November 2019 with relative change of residency also recorded in my own country. That would make 3 years of LPR, and I read to be defined as LTR you need to be LPR for 8 years.

So my question is: if I just know file I-407 form so that I will not have issues in the future to travel to the USA maybe even for work, would I need to file form 8854 anyways?

Thank you for anyone who will reply in advanced.

Hello everyone,

So as I wrote in the title of this thread, I got a divorce and left the USA in late 2019 to return my home country.
I am returning as a tourist to visit NY with my sister in April 2024, now I have no desire of course to remain, but my question rose regards of the ESTA visa since I am an Italian citizen and ESTA was already approved online, just wondering can I just go ahead and use that to enter normally the States, or do I need to bring any extra documentation because of the fact I was a permanent resident once?

How does it work?

Thank you to anyone who will reply.

Hello again everyone,

starting from January 2024 I can file the N400. However, the main concern in requesting the US citizenship or not, is the tax implications.

I basically own an apartment in my country, which was purchased by my parents in 2014 and right after was donated to me. It has a certain value (range 500k to 1M $), hence I am afraid I have to pay high taxes on it. Btw, I am not getting any income from the property. My parents live there.

Question is, if I decided to become a US citizen will I have to pay taxes on it? Or, since it was purchased before US neutralization and do not get income, should I be fine?

thank you !

My application was received by USCIS on 01/02 and when I woke up this morning I saw a declined transaction of $680.

I used credit card transactions for all my forms (I-129F, AOS and so on) and never, ever had any issues.

To my horror, this happened when my green card expires on 01/18.

Besides the fact that I had a slight mental breakdown, I had to call off work and I am now re-printing my whole package (over 500 pages) and re-sending everything today with overnight shipping and a cashier s check.

I guess my question is, there shouldn t be any issues with a cashier s check, correct?

Also, assuming the other application will be sent back to me with a rejection notice due to lack of payment, could this cause problems with the new application I m sending out today?

I might be paranoid right now but I am concerned about the fact that I have a tight timeframe.

Thank you!