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Like others have said, it's saved for 30 days, and you get 30 new days each time you change something. SO you can basically keep going forever. I always recommend people to start filling it out early. That way they get a good idea of what the form asks for and what to upload, and there's no time requirement in which the form needs to be submitted, just get yourself 30 new days over and over until you're ready to submit.

No, you use the same personbevis everytime. I ordered more personbevis after I had moved to the US so I had one with a newer date for my AOS interview. By that time I had already updated my my US address, my new (married) last name and registered my marriage in Sweden, so the new personbevis had all the new info on it.

It's not a requirement to upload it when you file, so there's nothing to worry about (and the reason for no RFE). You just bring it to the interview like most people do. Those who forget to bring certain documents to the interview can get an RFE afterwards.

Go to Skatteverkets website and order the personbevis needed for "utlandsk ambassad eller myndighet". It's called "Personbevis 120 med ALLA relationer" and is in English. They will send it to your bokforingsadress and it will be signed AND stamped. That is all you need. Zero reason to order it in Swedish and have it translated when it comes in English straight from Skatteverket. No need for a notary or anything like that either. The stamp and signature is enough. 99% of us have never had any issues with this. The other 1% had their cases looked at by an employee who doesn't understand that Sweden doesn't have birth certificates, we only have this extract from the population register. If you want to, you can send a short sentence together with the personbevis, explaining exactly this. A quick Google search will tell them the same thing.

Congrats! What a great feeling. I agree, this forum is soooo incredibly valuable. It has saved us thousands of dollars being able to do every little bit of the immigration journey ourselves without having to hire anybody.

You are WAY overthinking it. Just say you're self-employed and that's that. This is an EASY interview, they won't interrogate you about your job.

At the most, they go through the answers you put down on your N-400, it's no big deal. For me, as a self-employed person, the Immigration Officer only corrected some of the answers I had put on the N-400 form. Like for example I had put "sales person" or something like that, so she asked about my work and then she changed the answer to something more fitting. So don't even worry about that part, if they ask about it you just answer to the best of your abilities. If they feel something needs to be fixed in the form, they will do it for you at the interview.

Who is asking this question? I have never been asked this question, by anyone. But the answer for me would be "to be done with USCIS", because it is GLORIOUS to not have to deal with immigration stuff anymore. 😂

For us it was easier getting married in the US so we could get a US marriage certificate. In my home country the marriage "certificate" you receive at your wedding isn't legally binding and therefore doesn't mean anything, people just keep it as a memory type thing of their wedding day. We also don't have birth certificates. The legal documents are ordered from the Swedish "population register" (you choose the Long English version when you place an order) and is only an extract from their register with all your info on it. This has proven to be a bit of a headache for some people as USCIS doesn't understand that this is the only form of "birth certificate" and "marriage certificate" we have, there has been countless of RFEs because of this. I luckily never had an issue with the "birth certificate" part, but I'm glad I had a US marriage certificate so there was one less thing they could get hung up on.

Exactly, so don't let anything get in the way of getting that citizenship and passport, even if it means staying put in the US until the ordeal is over. Don't reschedule due to travel or anything else that isn't important at this moment.

Agree, there seems to be many ways of doing it. I too didn't have a judicial oath ceremony, didn't see a judge at any point and had a normal oath at USCIS with all others. I had my oath 4 business days after my interview and got the name change document in hand at my oath, so the judge must've signed it quickly. Lucky us. Others wait for months because their field office requires a judicial ceremony and it's up to the court what day there's time for it. I imagine they try to gather as many applicants as possible and have a big oath for all of them at the same time.

Whether you get a same-day Oath Ceremony or not depends on your particular field office and it can even be a "day by day" thing too. Some field offices do same-day Oaths all the time, others (like mine in Los Angeles) did not do it when I had my oath during the pandemic. However, L.A. had oath ceremonies every Tuesday, so if you had your interview early enough on a Tuesday, there was time for them to get your certificate ready and you could attend your oath ceremony that same Tuesday, later in the day. So again, it differs a lot, even within the same field office. If you have a name change, some field offices require you to take your oath in front of a judge, which can take months as courts don't have time doing this all the time. My field office in L.A. did not have a judge present and we did our oath outside the USCIS building. So not all field offices require a "judicial ceremony" when you change your name. You just get your name change document (signed by a judge) in hand together with your certificate at the end, when you hand in your greencard. You are a greencard holder until you take the oath. That means you are still a greencard holder even after you pass the interview, so you can keep traveling with your greencard even after the interview, until you take the oath. If you cannot get a US passport in time for your travel, you can let the IO know at the interview which date you will be back in the US and they won't schedule your oath until then. Many have been successful with this, however, it's still USCIS and anything can happen. Personally I would not let anything get in the way of me becoming a citizen and get my US passport, especially not something as unimportant as "travel". Once the citizenship and passport part is done, you're DONE with USCIS and can do whatever you like, including travel without restrictions.

Probably because they are considered to have strong ties to the US, since in the US they have a kid and grandchild, they may want to stay. Maybe they weren't able to provide enough evidence of their ties to Colombia that would also help showing non-immigrant intent to the US.

In the end, when you choose the K-1 visa instead of the CR-1 visa, the wedding ceremony is not important. It really isn't. You can't put yourself in a potentially devastating situation with the immigrations just because you want to get married on a certain date or just because its' "inconvenient" to travel within the country to be with family. Those are very, very minor issues in the grand scheme of things.

There are very, very few situations where a K-1 is the better choice. I came to the US on a K-1 but would choose CR-1 every day of the week if I had to do it all over again.