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Mike E

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  1. You should say your sponsor is a U.S. citizen deployed overseas in the U.S. armed forces.
  2. Rarely is this granted. Did you file for a Re-entry permit? Technically the rule USCIS enforces is over 180 days of continuous absence breaks residency for purposes of naturalization. However on one of Jim Hacking’s pod casts last year he says his law firm successfully appealed a denial in this basis because they showed that the N-400 applicant had fewer than 182.5 days of physical absence. So how much absence will you have? Keep in mind that the day you left the USA and the day you return to the USA don’t count as absence.
  3. Her deployment abroad in service of our country counts as U.S. presence.
  4. Fees for I-485 and I-751 are going to jump dramatically. CR-1 and entry into USA after 2 years of marriage is the best approach
  5. Just absences from the past 3 years, excluding those from before you became an LPR
  6. Have you tried using EMMA (chat). Sometimes that is more effective than calling. If person on the other end of the chat acknowledges your request then you have a basis for appealing any denial of your N-400 case. Screens shithtye chat session and/or record it (an Apple Mac’s screenshot utility lets you record a video of your screen). The other benefit of chat over the phone is that there are laws regulating recording your own phone calls but for chats not so much. Since you will still be around on the day of the oath, you could try attending the oath and explain the situation. You would not surrender your gc or take oath. OTOH, 1. Granted this is a long shot, if folks from the passport agency are there and willing to do an expedited passports, you might be tempted to concentrate the oath, Or 2. Reportedly is is easy for a Filipino to get a visa for Mexico. So complete the oath and don’t apply for a passport. Instead travel to Mexico and walk into the USA using your naturalization certificate. A variation of this is to apply for your passport and use a photo copy of your naturalization certificate to walk into the USA. Even if 1 fails, 2 is viable.
  7. I hope he runs for Speaker of the House If he does and if my Representative votes against him, I will help primary representative in 2024.
  8. When the parent is a usc and the child is under 21, there is no age out. Otherwise CSPA is complex. Lacking details I can’t tell you if the 20 year old will age out. You can calculate it by looking at https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/child-status-protection-act-cspa She needs to file I-131 I don’t know what happens to her petitions when DoS concludes she has abandoned LPR status but by law only an immigration judge can take her LPR status. She needs to establish domicile or convince DoS she will have domicile before the beneficiaries can be DQed and she needs to either accompany the beneficiaries to the USA on their immigration visas or precede them. I am seeing a lot of moving parts and risk. I suggest that once NVC takes over the cases, that she move back to the USA.
  9. Will visas issued by the exile government (which controls the embassy and consulates inside the USA) be recognized by Venezuela?
  10. 1. artist. Add a supporting document that says you were a graphic designer 2. Separate entires. Add a supporting document that says you were self employed and your home address was your place of employment. 3. upload childhood name change doc and marriage certificate
  11. Any absence of more than 180 days breaks continuous residency for purposes of naturalization So 4 + 5 = 9 months of absence in the previous 12 months. She risks a finding of abandoning LPR status as she is not living in U.S. She should file for a Re-entry permit.
  12. Given this and your other comments about your plan to come to USA and adjust status, I am significantly more pessimistic than before. I hope you make it in the music business, because an O-1B visa is about the only I see you entering the USA in the future.
  13. Don’t know about Centennial, but https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/citlist.php?op6=All&op7=Denver+CO&op1=8&op2=&op4=1&op5=5%2C10%2C11&cfl= says same day oaths happen.
  14. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/pdf/eta/english.pdf says the eTA application asks if you have denied a visa or permit from any country.
  15. Friend or romantic significant other?
  16. When one is ESTA eligible, a B visa usually gets denied because one is ESTA eligible. You are now in a fe-facto ban of your own making. Since you were looking for a stay of more than 90 days that raises suspicion right there. 1. What is it about your life that lets you be away from your country that long? Most people have jobs. If you don’t have a full time job, get one. 2. Why did you want to stay more than 90 days? 3. An exception would be a retiree. Are you retired? Get a full time job. Work for a while. Then try the ESTA again. I’m not optimistic but if you don’t try the ESTA first after working full time, and instead keep trying for B visas you are just doing the same thing expecting different results. If ESTA is denied after you have been working full time, then you have a basis for applying for a B visa. Whatever you do, don’t ask for an authorized stay of more than 90 days. Apply for an authorized stay of 2 weeks. .
  17. Generally these affidavits have to be from people who were around for the birth and old enough to be aware. I suspect a birth affidavit for your father is going to be impossible given his year of birth. For you this is more doable. And you must have done it before. You are a citizen thus you had a green card before. What did you use in lieu of a birth certificate for K-1 and for I-485?
  18. How does one designate a city of birth versus country of birth in https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds82.pdf ? I listed my city and country of birth and the passport listed just my country of birth. https://fam.state.gov/fam/08fam/08fam040304.html#M403_4_7_C says people born in foreign country X will have passports with a place birth abbreviated as Y
  19. What was your immigration status in U.S. 12 years ago? What is his immigration status in the U.S.?
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