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SSN issues, issuing a cautionary tale while venting.
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Open joint bank account
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Savannah Guthrie's mom's disappearance now being investigated as a crime
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yuna628 replied to Ariel Pierini's topic in Adjustment of Status from Work, Student, & Tourist Visas
Did Chase send a letter or some kind of confirmation correspondence confirming you being added as authorized user? Usually cards will just have the user's name on it, but we took photos of our cards and various account info showing that we are linked. If I recall rightly, at the time I added my husband to my bank account, he did not yet have his SSN. They accepted his passport, marriage license, and other evidence. Typically a K1 should try to obtain their SSN within two weeks of entering the US, and that opens up a lot of possibilities and ways of securing other items. If you've waited too late or you are adjusting from a different way (it sounds like you came a different way) then your next opportunity is going to be EAD if you're filing for that with AOS. That will also open up the ability to go back to the SSA and also to get state ID etc. As far as other proofs goes.. health insurance, joint taxes, pension/insurance beneficiaries, life insurance, wills/POAs are all good. IIRC, we also had something like a Costco membership printed out where you could see him as a user on the account. We did the same with our phone plan. In the future, once you've got your SSN, getting a credit card without credit history isn't as hard as one might think. Start with a secured credit card like through Discover, and within six months you'll be upgraded and should be good to go. -
It was supposedly from the possible kidnappers, and was also sent to local outlets as well. The rumor today is that the daughter and son-in-law are being scrutinized in some way. They are the last to see her alive.
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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Today after yet another embarrassing press conference on the subject of her disappearance with the sheriff... TMZ reports that they were emailed a threatening ransom note describing particulars of the case and demanding a large amount of bitcoin. I have no idea what to think of the legitimacy of such a note.
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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Man that is *stoopid* I'd tell them to kick rocks personally. There has to be someone that has the same parental situation.
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221g but lacking clarity on guidelines (joint sponsor doesn't qualify because retired?)
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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Savannah Guthrie's mom's disappearance now being investigated as a crime
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New here and starting the K1 Visa journey I am a US citizen and Gisell is a citizen of the Domincan Republic
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From personal experience: we used a well-qualified joint sponsor for our K1 process and that wasn't the problem. We were confident that we had a large amount of savings enough to handle the long waiting period to a green card. Alas, that ended up being quite the pickle. The long wait (employers didn't want to hire him until he had a green card vs an EAD), the job market at the time in our area, and the enormous cost of health insurance significantly drained our finances. We were mere months away from losing it. He was hired out of a miracle chance, so our income stabilized, but that did not mean he was offered health insurance. That was another year for a promotion to get that. That was ten years ago. Insurance costs are even higher now and immigrants are viewed with even higher scrutiny. It's important to have a long term stable plan and perhaps employment before starting down this road. That may be difficult to hear, and I hope no offense is taken.
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As more details come out about this case it sounds like a very serious kidnapping. The FBI is also quickly involved and there is discussion of disturbing crime scene evidence of some sort of serious harm. I wonder if this is some sort of stalker situation. They are being rather mysterious about the info on what has happened here, but I hope this poor lady is found alive.
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Let's save the human species!
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I had visited him several times before his condition began so it was hard to see him deteriorate. There were some small blessings eventually. For a while he would have days where he couldn't remember what had happened to his wife, so he would go through the grieving process multiple times... eventually the disease spared him of wondering about that. Breakfast used to be dry bland cheerios, pop tarts, or toaster strudel (do they still make that?). Though the best occasional cereals were cocoa pops and soymilk. Okay 1) lactose intolerant? You can get lactose free cheese if that helps him. 2)is there something for breakfast that he wants to eat in particular? what does he eat when he's not with you? 3) why is Mama T-B mad at you for a trip? I mean.. I get you, every time me and the husband want to go on vacation the elderly seem to have a total passive-aggressive gaslighting meltdown to the point I can't even relax the whole time. Don't understand it.
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Took a day off from chopping the ice and went back at it yesterday. The 'iceberg' has not melted much... 4 degrees this morning. But hitting it with my shovel and a hammer has provided some stress relief. Looks like blizzard #2 will sadly miss us, but might be some flurries. We learned of the passing of my husband's grandfather. He was the sort of man you could quintessentially describe as an absolute English gentleman. Tall, kind, dry-humored, full of stories.. with a twinkle in his eye. Always impeccably dressed. He loved his gardens, tea, finer things of life, and traveling. His grandfather's health began to decline after the loss of his wife, and not long after my husband left the UK. When we visited, he no longer had a memory of anyone because of severe dementia and he battled illness after illness... each time beating the odds. Take some comfort in the fact that once it's over, there will be no more sleepless nights, no missing each other, and no more empty rooms.
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The drifts froze solid, so there's a good 10-12 inches that you can walk across easily... not great for shoveling, more like chopping and lifting heavy ice bricks. Unfortunately the cars were encased in that, so it's been a hard struggle all day to dig out the entryway and get at least one side of one of the vehicles cleared out. A neighbor with a backhoe cleared the rest of the driveway, but unfortunately piled a good 4ft wall in front of the other vehicle, so that's going to be insane to dig out. We're forecast in the teens all week, with more snow on the way. Rumors of blizzard #2 this weekend! At any rate it's not safe or possible to get the elderly out of the house to appointments this week so everything has to be pushed to another month. TB I'm curious where you put all the stuff you buy, surely at some point it will be too much clutter? Though the gloves are always good, I go through tons of boxes of those things a year with all the cleaning and elder-care.
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I can report it's still blizzarding outside. Snow is knee-high and we have significant drifts to be digging out in the morning. Shoveling has been made difficult by near-constant sleet all day. Power has held so far, but the poor heat pump is struggling.
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Let's save the human species!
yuna628 replied to TBoneTX's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
1) Decline of stable men. 2) Decline of stable women. (For points 1 and 2 I mean in all things - emotional maturity, actual maturity, financial security, compatibility, cultural issues, psychological factors) 3) Financial stability. 4) Examples your parents set end up giving you so much burnout you can't imagine having your own children and going through it. 5) Effectively spending all of your time and money 'raising' your parents in their old age. 6) Repressive cultures. 7) Fertility issues, sex-ed awareness, stigmas (women's reproductive and sexual health remain underfunded, understudied and millions of women are developing inflammatory reproductive issues which vastly affect their health and psychological well being. society's answer to this is BC as a medicine which isn't helpful due to numerous side effects including not having babies.) 8 ) we spent decades telling young potential parents to wait for 'marriage' only to have kids when married (so they enter into clueless marriages, eventual broken marriages too), to abort or give up their kids due to stigma.. and guess what? Now less young people are choosing to have kids before marriage.. but are also choosing not to marry or have kids at all. There is no one chief factor. -
it's glorious. We need snow especially to protect the plants from the temps and we are still in a major drought. The last official blizzard was 2016, and that is too long. Forecasts continue to get worse for this area. Went for a doctor's appointment last afternoon which is quite far away and then needed to get back down here to do the weekly basic grocery shopping. Got stuck in traffic and had to take a two hour detour just to get home. By the time I got to the store the mass panic had set in. Four different locations.... all cleaned out, and not just the basic essentials either. Lines were going out the doors! Man I lived through the great blizzard of 96' when the entire state was a ghost town for weeks... you would think it was going to be the apocalypse out there.
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Social Security Card Name Change After Marriage Difficulties 2026 Before AOS
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Except that isn't true either. And the media sources I mentioned before did in fact look at this story. They investigated to see if a sex offender had lived in the house. They investigated to see where any allegation like this had come from. The best AP could come up with perhaps an ex-husband of a family member that had briefly stayed there but does not seem to be either of these men but may have known of them? Furthermore, one of these individuals they were supposedly searching for has been in jail and is still in jail for several years! Did they have a judicial warrant, or are we okay with 4th amendment violations? Are we okay with dragging an elderly man in his underwear out in the street and then dumping him back at the residence after causing destruction to the residence? If you are okay with that, well that's you. I think that the government should be able to own up to their mistakes and do better.
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There is no way you'll be able to make a name change until she has an actual status such as an EAD or green card because they are unable to verify anything until that time. Once you have those you can return to the SSA. You'll need to update with the SSA every time her status changes. The same thing will happen if you need a ID or DL at your DMV. Any name change experience you had at the DMV is irrelevant unfortunately, because you are a citizen and that is a state process not a federal one. You can certainly add your new spouse to your bank or health insurance without having a name changed on her SSN. Most of us with immigrant spouses did so. It's important to do it sooner rather than later.
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Hearing anywhere up to 28 inches of snow, coating of ice, and high winds with windchills -0. I don't hold out hope for the electricity staying on because we'll be dealing with these conditions for 48hrs and no end to the brutal cold anytime soon. I'm sure the panic buying in the stores have started. We struggled a bit on day two of the faucet replacement job, but ultimately got it done and we now have a nice new fixture. There was no information in the store about how long the pipes were and no employees were to be found. Stood around for 15 mins googling to see if anyone knew the specs and was happy that our first choice was adequate enough.