Mike E

I tried Wells, BofA, Discover, and Ally to open a bank account for my wife online and all refused because she did not have a green card. Did not try hsbc. This is what hsbc’s web site tells me: https://www.us.hsbc.com/checking-accounts/products/premier/#get-started How to apply If you have lived in the U.S. for at least one year What you need to apply online: You must be 18 years of age and have a Social Security Number U.S. mobile number Current U.S. residential address and lived in the U.S. for more than one year Good luck with that. I am out.

I am out.

Have you tried vitalcheck.com ? Sometimes states keep divorce records? Is your former spouse still alive? If not, try to get a death certificate. If so, see if you can re-divorce.

IME, you will not be able to open a US bank account unless: * you are physically present in the U.S. * you have an unexpired I-94 or I-551. Not all banks will accept an I-94 though. Wells Fargo will IME. * you apply in person Some banks will require an SSN. I do not see how you can transfer ahead of time. You can ask for a U.S. dollar bank draft from your bank. While this will work, note: * if you lose the bank draft, it can be impossible to replace * if it exceeds $10,000 USD, it must be declared to CBP. And possibly to UK border force. Instead see if your UK bank account supports international online transfers. My Canadian bank does. Or if you have a personal banker assigned to you, ask the banker if wire transfer orders by phone are possible. Also ask if you can change your address on your UK bank account to your U.S. address as well as the mobile number used for 2FA.

As long as you are filling MFJ as a tax resident seems fine to me.

It is fine if you disclose that the divorce is in progress. If the divorce finalizes before the interview, bring the divorce decree and a copy. If it finalizes between the interview and oath, bring the divorce decree and a copy, and prepare for oath to be re-scheduled and a new interview. Personally, I waited until after my divorce was final.

To get your child a U.S. passport you need to have evidence that the child: is your child lives with you is in your legal custody has LPR status you are a U.S. citizen the above all happened before the child reached age 18 IMO there these are facts: the longer a parent waits to secure a U.S. citizenship document for the child, the harder it becomes to prove the child is a U.S. citizen. It actually becomes exponentially harder because evidence, like radioactivity of isotopes has a half life. It’s actually the law of physics: order tends to disorder aka the Law of Entropy you get exactly one chance to file N-600. Often when parents decide to try N-600 first, they get an RFE for evidence. The parent doesn’t know how to respond to RFE, and the case is denied. Forever. Whereas if the passport acceptance agent is half way competent the agent won’t accept the application with incomplete evidence. whereas you can try as many times as you want to get a passport passports get lost and replacing a passport without a certificate of citizenship is hard. Replacing a passport when you have a passport card is easy. Thus the parent should first try to get the child a passport and passport card. The child should get a passport card because it seems losing the naturalization certificate is inevitable. the CBP Ready Lanes at ports of entry on the land border don’t work with passports but do work with passport cards Make sure to make a complete copy of everything sent to the passport agency. While most evidence (except a green card) will come back, sometimes the post office or the passport agency loses it. Once the child has a passport and passport card: Using the same evidence used to get the passport, file N-600 online to get the child a certificate of citizenship, plus the passport, passport card, and any note the passport agency sent back regarding the passport agency confiscating the green card Parent and child should go to SSA to get a new SS card. If the child has has an SSN, a passport card is fine for this. If the child has never had an SSN, then a certificate of citizenship might be required. In lieu of a green card, hopefully the parent retained the original passport used to enter the U.S. on an immigration visa or the original I-485 approval document. Some people will tell you that your child doesn’t need a certificate of citizenship. I disagree: A citizen has no right to a U.S. passport. Certain acts such as habitually losing a passport, being behind on child support payments, or being placed on certain no fly lists can cause one to be denied a passport. Whereas a qualified citizen has a right to a certificate of citizenship. I don’t think a family court judge will have any pity on someone who can’t get a passport, and thus can’t get a job to pay child support and thus can’t get a passport. investigators performing security clearances for certain roles in service of the federal government, military, or federal contractor are known to reject a U.S. passport as evidence of U.S. citizenship Some citizens of certain countries are denied certain roles. A certificate of citizenship identifies the previous nationality. Hence a passport is not accepted when applying for those roles At some state DMVs, if the SAVE system doesn’t verify U.S. citizenship using the passport card, some DMVs will override SAVE if a certificate of citizenship is presented When registering online to vote, some states require those with a US birth certificate or CRBA to provide the number from a certificate of citizenship or naturalization. When petitioning a relative for LPR status (aka filing I-130) USCIS and sometimes the department of state won’t accept a U.S. passport as evidence of U.S. citizenship. It is rare but it does happen. There are now reports of U.S. citizens who lost their passport having difficulty obtaining a new passport without a certificate of citizenship.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-316/section-316.5 “ 2) Claim of nonresident alien status for income tax purposes after lawful admission as a permanent resident. An applicant who is a lawfully admitted permanent resident of the United States, but who voluntarily claims nonresident alien status to qualify for special exemptions from income tax liability, or fails to file either federal or state income tax returns because he or she considers himself or herself to be a nonresident alien, raises a rebuttable presumption that the applicant has relinquished the privileges of permanent resident status in the United States. ” Your plan to file as an NRA will risk your status as an LPR and reset your clock for naturalization. This is another reason, and perhaps is the reason why LPRs are expected to file tax returns.

“ B. Place of Residence The applicant’s “residence” refers to the applicant’s principal, actual dwelling place in fact, without regard to intent. [3] The duration of an applicant’s residence in a particular location is measured from the moment the applicant first establishes residence in that location” No prizes for good intentions. Where you sleep matters.

I-130 to start https://www.visajourney.com/guides/us-immigration-for-parents/ https://www.visajourney.com/guides/us-immigration-guide-for-parents/

Spending the majority of the 3 months outside the alleged state residence is not residing in the state of residence. Whether this the 3 months before filing N-400, before N-400 interview, or before the oath.

Incandescents never did anything bad to me. Because they are forbidden. Me neither. I never said they were bad.

Simpler to take the foreign income tax credit

Another useless metric. Is really bad worse than bad? Is extremely bad worse than really bad? By how much? What is the SI unit for bad? They are not bad for me. Don’t care. Other countries ban other things I like: booze, guns, GMO food, nuclear power, baby walkers, chewing gum, lip syncing, blue jeans, etc Now Valentines Day and mullets are banned elsewhere and I support that.

Why is it one metric is expressed over 30 years and another per year? And both are useless. In 2016 the U.S. emitted 5,011,686,600 tons of CO2 or 4.547 billion metric tons. At 350 million people that is 13 metric tons per person per year. A savings of 222 million metric tons over 30 years is 0.02 metric tons per person per year. 20 kilograms. That is how much CO2 a person exhales in 20 days. $3 million per year in savings less than a penny per person per year. I will never recoup the costs of led bulbs. Useless metrics. Useless results. Won’t save a single puppy from dying

If they cannot, they will inform you

Miraculous. Happy for you.

Yes

I do not know what that is.

Of course not. I simply follow what turbotax.con tells me to do. At the time I filed MFJ, I reviewed rules as turbotax presented them, and concluded my wife had the right to be a resident alien. If we filed MFS, my wife’s lawyer would have blown a gasket. And if I saiid “but 6013h” she would have said that in 25 years of practice she has never heard of such a thing. We simply filed MFJ. If both spouses have SSNs it is trivial.

I had not either until i googled for the cost of a d&c. I expect the price can be lower dealing directly with providers. Closer than Canada most likely. I suggest start calling local off-hospital providers it travel is an issue. If you think you are no longer covered by your provincial plan (not sure why if that is the case; countless Canadian VJers post her about staying in Canada for a while after entering on their immigration visa. Surely they are covered) fly to Mexico or Thailand and get it done. btw as a free lancer aka 1099 / self employed person, ACA insurance premiums are deductible against self employment income.

Services at hospitals are over priced. Case in point, last year I had a CAT scan, and the hospotal billed over $10,000. I paid under $100, my insurer paid under $1000, and told the hospital that was all it was getting. Try an off-hospital clinic. MDsave.com quotes $5000

“Nayib Bukele has done Joe Biden a big favor. Instead of shipping his country's criminals here, which is what Venezuela has done, he's put them in jail in the home country” The author seems naive. Biden wants more criminals in the U.S.

Yes file MFJ, e-file

So do not opt in. Do not use dual status status. Treat yourself as a resident alien for all 2022, and MFJ as a resident alien. When I enter this into google.com : "6013h" site:visajourney.com you are the only person on visajourney who has ever brought this up. Like 364/365 people who moved to the US, my wife was a part year resident the year she moved. She wasn't even an LPR that first year and part of the next year. We filed MFJ each time. Yes.