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Usually unwise to leave anything blank. Put N/A if Not Applicable to you...

Your wife becomes a citizen after her oath ceremony. If your step-daughter is a permanent resident under 18 and living with your wife in her custody on that day, then she'll also become a citizen then.

My Hungarian passport expired in 2017 and I haven't renewed it. I entered and left Hungary several times since on my US passport (staying more than 90 days), I asked them at the border if that's a problem and was told no, they can see my place of birth is Hungary on my US passport and assume I haven't renounced my Hungarian citizenship (I haven't) so no problem....

Beautiful, I wish I was at this ethical level. I'm not. Yet.

that, I totally agree with

I get where you're coming from but it's not ethically, morally or legally right to do that. We can't stoop to their level. Any person in our captivity: needs to get fed, be able to sleep and be given medical attention. If we want to kill them, we need to have a proper trial first.

Smart thing would be delaying your plans until after she naturalizes.

I'm for changing the law on death penalty in Israel: right now it only applies to Nazis complicit in the Holocaust, I think it should be "crimes against the Jewish people" to include the atrocities of 7th October. IMHO terrorists who took part in 7th October are simply not fit to live among humans. Since we're not going to drop them on a deserted island they need to be executed. After due process, of course. Hang them, because we're civilized people, unlike them. (Otherwise I'd say kill them very slowly, chopping off a small body part a day until they die....) But we're civilized...... I'm not an international lawyer but IMO they're not POWs. Nevertheless, they should be treated humanely in the meantime simply because you treat people who are in your captivity humanely. That's a universal ethical obligation. One that they ignored but we shouldn't.

Because ultimately it's bad for us & bad for them to rule over them on a non-equal footing. So for both our sakes. Yes, all these. My family lives in TX, also don't encounter it much but it exists. Not so long ago in Dallas Jews were kept in a hostage situation in a synagogue....

Annex, annex, annex, then force citizenship.

The birth certificate is not being submitted to USCIS but to the consulate.

Any specific reason you don't just want to go with the DNA test option? Seems straightforward, if not exactly cheap...

Really sorry to hear that her ethnic group is being targeted for killing by the government. That's absolutely horrible.

Oy, and I was touched by his first speech regarding all this (I'm not a fan of him, or really any politician)...

Germans invented the word "anti-semitism", basically to make "Jew-hatred" sound better & more respectable/scientific/as a legitimate political philosophy....

Oh wow! That's...... hard to find words. Did British Mandate law also prescribed death as punishment? I somewhat doubt it...

This!!! Anything else and we're simply waiting for a repeat of 7th October, God forbid!

Yes, indeed on both fronts. The other concern and the main one here, obviously, is enemy infiltration but with the extra army presence I do feel very safe.

Right now, yes, we're getting less sirens than Tel Aviv & South Jerusalem, haven't had a siren for over a week. There are additional IDF troops staying in our village, too. 100% agree. I'm not on X but reddit, oy. Literally, today I read a comment that said "If someone is not condemning both Hamas & the IDF then they're extremely biased." I don't even know where to start! People equating terrorist attack victims to civilian victims of the bombing of Gaza ("it's all murder") and don't misunderstand me, all CIVILIAN death is horrible but INTENT matters.... People saying "cease fire & negotiations should happen" and I ask them if the US should have negotiated with Al-Qaeda after 9/11 and they tell me Hamas isn't Al-Qaeda? Like, what??? I just get so discouraged sometimes.

Get a joint sponsor.

You filed 2 separate I-130s, correct? One for your mother & another for your father?

The more often you re-apply, the more desperate you'll seem, the more unlikely it'll be to get an approval.

Virtually guaranteed denial, however you have nothing to lose by attending the interview for the tourist visa (besides the visa application fee, of course).

Thank you for asking. I'm in a reasonably safe area. No siren since Monday evening. Lots of extra soldiers around the village keeping us safe, there was some minor incident near a nearby Arab village on Thursday evening, I heard shots, it was over quickly (local security-related whatsapp group confirmed it wasn't just training exercises). Nothing since. That incident, if anything, made me feel more safe because it's obvious our village is well protected.