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This is not entirely correct. As long as you contact NVC annually, you can keep the case active at that stage. If someone fails to contact NVC in a 12 month period, then yes, the petition is deemed abandoned.

Post the link if you still have it.

No doubt. I wonder how many civilians were killed when the UK and US we’re carpet bombing Germany, or the U.S. was firebombing Japan.

Good Luck!

Another option would be to attend the oath ceremony and during the check-in process explain the situation to the USCIS IO’s there requesting an ADIT stamp and 10 yr GC and withdraw your N400. You can also call for an ADIT stamp. Under the prior procedure, residents were required to call the USCIS Contact Center, request an InfoPass appointment, wait for that appointment to be scheduled, and then attend the appointment at the local USCIS Field Office to obtain the ADIT stamp in their passport. Due to delays at the Contact Center and limited InfoPass appointment availability, many residents were not able to get ADIT stamps in a timely manner. Under the new procedure, USCIS will mail temporary evidence of permanent residence to those who request it. In order to make a request, residents must follow these steps: Call the USCIS Contact Center at 800-375-5283. Verify their identity and address with the USCIS officer. The officer will determine if an in-person InfoPass appointment is needed or if USCIS can provide an ADIT stamp through the mail. An in-person appointment will be needed for those who urgently need an ADIT stamp, do not have a useable photo in the USCIS system (such as through prior biometrics collection), or in circumstances in which the USCIS officer cannot confirm the resident’s identity or address. For those who do not need an InfoPass appointment, the USCIS Field Office that has jurisdiction over the resident will receive the resident’s information and will issue a Form I-94 with an ADIT stamp, DHS seal, and printed photo of the resident and mail it to them at the address they provided. This document will be valid for up to one year. Only the following legal permanent residents can use this procedure: Legal permanent residents who do not have a green card (such as those who have been approved for residence and are waiting for their green card to be issued) Legal permanent residents with a Form I-90, I-751, or N-400 application pending and whose automatic extension (as listed on their receipt notice) has already expired https://somireddylaw.com/uscis-announces-new-procedures-for-obtaining-alien-documentation-identification-and-telecommunication-adit-stamp/

That is fine, naturalization is a personal decision. Sure, if you do not want to naturalize you should be able to send a letter to the local office address on your approval NOA. Good Luck!

Do you not want to naturalize now?

I agree with @Boiler might need to get with a lawyer. What does 221g white slip mean? The U.S. issues a white slip to a visa applicant when it falls under the complex category of section 221(g). This is usually because you did not provide enough or required evidence during your visa interview. Therefore, your case will require additional processing by USCIS based on the documentation and information that USCIS receives. https://www.immi-usa.com/221g/

What was the color of the 221G? https://www.path2usa.com/blog/all-about-221g/

Probably one of those things that needs to be fixed relative to the legal immigration laws. Why IRs do not include derivatives is beyond me, but family based F1, F2 (F2A/F2B), F3 and F4 do. We had a recent post where a couple had a child overseas that does not qualify for CRBA, so the USC has to file an I130 and attempt to expedite it so as to catch up with the IR1 and IR2s already issued. Another post where an LPR had petitioned for his wife (F2A) with a step-child then the LPR naturalized so the step-child will no longer be a derivative and reverts to F1 with an new I130 required. Overall, I am fine with family based categories having derivatives as we petitioned for my adult step-son when my wife naturalized (I could not petition for him as we married after he was 18) and that will include his wife and their children if they have them in the next 15+ years.

Yes, she will have to answer the question as to her current marital status. Based on your story it appears she is separated, but still legally married.

Yes, assuming the marriage creating the "step" relationship occurred prior to the child turning 18 a USC would need to provide a separate I130 for the step-child (IR2 classification). If one is an LPR with a step-child who was under 18 when the "step" relationship was created, no new I130 is needed as the step-child would be a derivative on the foreign spouses F2A visa eventually. Interesting scenario if an unmarried child under 21 who also has a child obviously under 21. If this were to occur with a USC petitioning you are correct, the grandchild would not be a derivative of an IR2 as IR visas does not allow for derivatives (family based F1, F3 and F4 do according to note 4). A similar situation could be a USC applying for a parent (IR5) where the parent has additional children (siblings of the USC) under 21 who are not in the US. As an LPR petitioning for an unmarried child under 21, their children, if they have any, would be derivatives.

Even if filing by paper, one can set up the online account and still get all the documents from USCIS. My wife filed by paper, and also set up a USCIS account and received all of the notices. That being said, if we had to do it again, we would go online especially now since it is more expensive.

Very good read especially if one is open minded. Fact-Checking Wind and Solar Claims: Climate Expert Makes Case for ‘Realism’ Part of the issue is that carbon dioxide, we’re told that it’s a magic climate control. No. That essentially, if you put more carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, temperatures go up, you get more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more droughts, more floods, more all of the bad stuff that people don’t want to see. And if we somehow kept carbon dioxide to a minimal level, somewhere between 350 parts per million to 286 parts per million, that life would be good. We wouldn’t have hurricanes, we wouldn’t have tornadoes. All these bad things would stop happening. Temperature would stop rising, the seas would stop rising, as [former President] Barack Obama said. And magic happens. And the problem is it’s not connected directly to carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a bit player in all of this. So that I think is one of the take-home messages, is that carbon dioxide isn’t the climate control knob. For most of climate history, we’ve actually seen that air temperature leads and carbon dioxide follows. And that makes total sense because when air temperature goes up, water becomes warmer. There’s more outgassing of carbon dioxide. And so as your temperature of the oceans rise, carbon dioxide is given off by the oceans, the atmospheric concentrations increase. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/03/fact-checking-wind-solar-claims-climate-expert-makes-case-realism/

How far along are you on the F2A for your spouse? It appears the I130 was filed in 2022, so still a good two years out by my math. I am wondering if an opt-out request of the automatic conversion to IR1 would be an option here to maintain your step-daughter as a derivative. Depends of course on your family priorities.

It is interesting how concerned the Western leaders are regarding Ukraine's borders that were drawn in 1991, but have little concern for Israel's borders.

I would think AOS would be the best course right now. Easier to deal with overall, and if they decide to go back to Ukraine at sometime in the future, they can give up their GCs via the I407. Good Luck!

You should be fine. There was a story of a member that submitted an online petition minutes or so after their 90 day window opened per the time zone they were in. Apparently the online system has some glitches relative to time zones and dating that caused issues and the member did not hear about it until the interview. The recommendation is to wait 2-3 days after the window opens to submit just to be safe as even though this member eventually got it straightened out, it was a big headache. You should be fine with a 3-4 day buffer.

Breaking now. Prayers for those involved. Second link has the video. Maryland: Ship hits Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-ship-hits-francis-scott-key-bridge-causing-collapse https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13239111/Maryland-Key-Bridge-collapses-struck-large-container-ship.html

Maybe Mann, and Fauci can be held together. This guy is amazing, and someone needs to find out who is paying his bills. Climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation case reveals what critics say is unethical behavior Mann is suing Simberg over statements he and Steyn made in articles they posted online. Testimony so far has raised a number of complaints about plaintiff Mann’s behavior toward his critics. One witnesses’ deposition even revealed that Mann had emailed the editor of a scientific journal in 2007 to stop a paper written by another climate scientist from being published by getting hostile peer reviewers assigned to it. Journalists Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney have been at the trial and posting regular podcasts on what's happening in court. The podcast, which has ranked in the top 15 podcasts on Spotify in the science category, highlights testimony in the trial using actors to portray what was said in court. According to a summary of the case that Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judge Alfred Irving gave during the trial, Simberg’s and Steyn’s post compared the Penn State’s investigation into assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who was found guilty in 2012 of sexually abusing 10 young boys over the course of 15 years, to the investigation of Mann’s research on global historic temperatures as shown in the scientist's controversial hockey stick graph. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/climate-scientists-defamation-case-reveals-what-critics-say-plaintiffs

It is a good thing to know that Biden's DOJ is still persecuting innocent people to maintain their destructive policies, and also showing their antisemitism. Jewish Doctor Targeted by DOJ After Blowing Whistle on Kids’ Transgender Clinic TEXAS (VINnews) — Last year, a whistleblower report exposed a secret gender-change program on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital. The hospital had promised to stop the procedures but continued to perform transgender medical interventions on children as young as 11. It turns out the whistleblower was former Texas Children’s Hospital general surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim Following the story’s publication, Texas legislators banned all child gender-change procedures statewide, angering left-wing activists and hospital officials, who opposed any restriction on transgender medicine. Then Dr. Haim was hit with revenge and retribution by the government. Federal agents tracked him down and identified him as the whistleblower, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari threatened him with prosecution. On June 23,there was a loud knock from two federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services saying he was the target of a criminal investigation. https://vinnews.com/2024/01/10/jewish-doctor-targeted-by-doj-after-blowing-whistle-on-kids-transgender-clinic/

So to me this is much more general than just the Hamas terror attacks into Israel (if mods feel otherwise, feel free to put this in the Israel thread). It is certainly true, people usually show their true colors. A great example is the racist attitudes of Old Corrupt Joe which shine through all the time. When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them On the one hand I think: surely this will be sufficient. Surely this amount of blood will be enough to shake the world awake. Surely no one can equivocate or justify this. As my friend Sarah Haider wrote, “How easy is it to simply condemn targeted violence against civilians? Can there be a lower bar?” And yet, across the world, people have sunk below it. Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering “gas the Jews” and “death to the Jews.” People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.) https://www.thefp.com/p/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are

What I do not understand is the three Leftist justices voted in favor of religious rights on the postal worker case released yesterday, but voted against this one released today. Supreme Court rules in favor of Colorado graphic designer who refused to create same-sex wedding websites The U.S. Supreme Court held that a Colorado graphic designer who wants to make wedding websites does not have to create them for same-sex marriages, in a landmark decision that pit the interests of LGBTQ non-discrimination against First Amendment freedom. In a 6-3 decision issued Friday, the high court ruled in favor of artist Lorie Smith, who sued the state over its anti-discrimination law that prohibited businesses providing sales or other accommodations to the public from denying service based on a customer's sexual orientation. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion, which said that, "In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-colorado-graphic-designer-who-refused-to-create-same-sex-wedding-websites/ar-AA1dg4M7

If the shoe fits. Twitter criticized after labeling NPR as ‘state-affiliated media’ (NewsNation) — NPR president and CEO John Lansing fired back at Twitter on Wednesday morning after the social media platform put a label on the news organization’s profile calling it “state-affiliated media.” NewsNation partner The Hill reports this designation is one Twitter uses for state news agencies such as Russia’s TASS and China’s Xinhua. “NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide,” Lansing wrote in a statement. “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.” https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/media/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media-ceo-responds/

More from the war on CH4. And yes, this agency is headed by the son of the former top manager of the AFL-CFO. U.S. safety agency to consider ban on gas stoves amid health fears A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution, which can cause health and respiratory problems. “This is a hidden hazard,” Richard Trumka Jr., an agency commissioner, said in an interview. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.” https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-considers-gas-stove-ban?expandComments=true