Mike E

Your expired passport is all you need for a mail in renewal provided it is not damaged. You have to supply all that or risk a denial. Only you can balance your reticence to share information the government already has versus the value of a passport. An officer evaluating your case who sees that this information is missing might conclude that the person attempting to renew the passport is not you. If so, not only will your passport not be renewed, but you might never be permitted to get a 10 year passport again. You will be looking at a lifetime of one year passports which fit all practical purposes are useful for only 6 months. This is both for your protection and the protection of other Americans. The latter because if the U.S. gets a reputation for issuing fraudulent passports, fewer countries will grant Americans a visa waiver and the visa refusal rate with increase. What you decide today might have a profound impact on your future. Good luck with your decision. I see you joined just 7 hours ago. Are you passport holder who is renewing the passport?

If you think you were sent a green card then call USCIS, say “info pass”, and request a tier 2 officer call you regarding your case.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-945 “If we determine that an applicant is deter inadmissible based on the public charge ground, but is otherwise admissible, the applicant may be admitted in the discretion of the secretary of homeland security after posting a suitable and proper bond. Before an applicant may post a public charge bond (on Form I-945), we must invite them to do so.” Good luck with that. Lots of erroneous advice being posted by lawyers these days.

If your interview wasn’t getting waived then instead of an RFE, you would have likely received a “Notice of Deficiency” warning you that you need a new I-693 before your interview. Instead you have likely delayed the arrival of your green card. I always advise people filing I-485 to get a new medical even if they have already had one for K-1.

Yes. My “resident since date” evolved over time. At my I-485 interview, I was approved on the spot and given an I-551 stamp dated July 8. By the time by green card arrive 5 months later, my resident since date became July 26. After my second green card it became August 19.

As these are not Global entry kiosks: Not in my experience

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kiosk “ 2 : a small stand-alone device providing information and services on” Humans have been using kiosks for decades to buy tickets, get boarding passes, etc. In this context it is a machine that processes you for entry into the USA. U.S. citizens, LPRs, and some foreigners are eligible. The kiosks I am referring to are different from global entry. My wife and I used these kiosks at the Miami cruise port in December of 2021. They were pure facial recognition. I did not have to present my US passport or passport card. My wife did not have to present her green card. The machine scanned our faces and we were admitted into the USA. Increasingly more airports and cruise ports use kiosks. They are the wave of the future. There have been reports that LPRs with expired green cards have been processed by these kiosks with no secondary or interaction with a CBP officer. This is one reason why you were urged to file I-90.

Not without a passport.

Canada is a difficult country for domicile. Suggest you open a U.S. bank account now. Are you certain your son is not already a U.S. citizen?

Indeed. I know someone who parks his Prius in the drive way because his co-owner has the garage filled with stuff. Two weeks after moving in, the catalytic converter was stolen. In a cul de sac where the majority of residents are law enforcers. I will wager that if most of garage stuff was placed on the driveway under a tarp, it would either sit there for years untouched by thieves or if not, the owners would never notice. Before the age of cars, they had horses and so apartments must have had stables on the bottom floors. Of course apartments were a third the or less than the size they are now. There will need to be a massive reversion to mid 19th century building layouts: smaller apartments, and rationed electricity in the dwellings to allow cars to be charged over night. 😂

yes. File I-485 again. Get the long form birth certificate. Are you a U.S. citizen?

Waste of money imho. USCIS and/or DoS can and should say it isn’t their problem neither CBP nor the airline complied with DHS policy and U.S. law. CBP is a law enforcement organization and some if not most law enforcers lie. I get beaten up on VJ for saying so, but lying is a legitimate tactic. In you case the lying separates the LPRs who intended to abandon status from those who did not. As for your secondary, if the airport has kiosks at passport control, use those. I think it is probable you won’t get a secondary if you use of kiosk. Most bid not all kiosks use facial recognition and your gc is thus never scanned. Do not sign I-407. By now you should be angry and emboldened by all the jerking around and lies. If they pressure you, tell them to pound sand and if they keep it up you will file a coercion complaint. You can refer them to this memo: Hopefully it works. I won’t take a victory lap until OP is home.

Congratulations. Filing N-400 will apparently cause your I-751 case to be adjudicated by your field office and speed it up. Hopefully you get a combo interview.

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https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/myentry.php When I click on "clicking here", ( https://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?&act=Msg&CODE=04&MID=11749 ) I get: And * no, I do not have two timelines. * yes I have filed a ticket.

Delta Airlines is among the worst. It won't let green card holders with extension letters travel to Mexico. I'm not surprised OP was improperly denied boarding. As long as my wife remains an LPR we will never fly Delta internationally. OP is not eligible for a boarding foil. Options: * Try another airline. * hire an attorney to sue CBP under the Administrative Procedures Act. * get a visa to travel to Canada or Mexico. * wait for the new green card * get as close to Guam as possible and take a private boat from there

Those aren’t Tesla superchargers so not surprised. EA and EVgo are a pair of jokes. On the Tesla subreddits people are complaining they can’t charge at home because it is too cold. The car has to first heat up before it can charge. And if you don’t have enough juice in the battery well you are going to brick the car. So I am thinking: “you can afford to buy a $60K car and you can’t afford a garage?” Still I am always amused how most people in the sun belt who have garages can’t park their cars inside them because they don’t have room for all the stuff they never use and refuse to get rid of. I’ve owned a home in the sun belt off an on for 15 years and could always park a car. I have a friend in California who parks her cars on the driveway because her bicycles would get stolen. So instead the windows on her cars get smashed. I didn’t mansplain to her about these things called bike hooks. Discipline folks. Discipline. It would be unthinkable to not park a car in the garage in summer here when it hits 110 degrees and inside the garage it is 85 degrees. EVs today are a niche product. Has to be a Tesla, that is garaged, and has a 240V dedicated charging circuit in Hawaii, California, AZ, NM, TX, LA, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida. So maybe 1 percent of the population (due to the garages being full of stuff besides cars). I think in maybe 20 years we might see EVs that are practical for sitting in a driveway in the winter in southern Colorado, east of the front range. I mean how many gasoline powered vehicles have you seen in the lower 48 that have engine block heaters? I’ve seen just one: when I custom ordered a pickup trick from Chevrolet in the 1990s. The truck of course had to be built in Canada, and it had day time running lights, etc all because I specified a $25 option. How are Americans going to adapt to plugging in an EV if they haven’t mastered an engine block heater (another Canadian thing, eh?). It’s simply laughable that millions of cars in the USA can’t be started today for want of a $10 extension cord and a $25 engine part that is standard equipment in Alberta (where outdoor office parking lots routinely have 120V outlets). Last week was cold for southern Arizona, and I did a run from the Phoenix airport to south of Tucson where we live. We arrived with less than 10 miles of range, a personal record. It took 5 long minutes before the car would wake up to let me charge. I was that close to bricking. If a seasoned EV owner in one of 3 warmest states in the lower 48 nearly bricks an EV then yes this is a delusion.

You wife needs an emergency passport from her country of citizenship.

yes. You have fallen victim to the false tyranny of the “or”. Don’t do that. It hurts. You need to plan to show up for both interviews. Never ever miss a USCIS appointment. It doesn’t matter if you have to crawl on broken glass, or pierce a 10 foot snow drift.

Also we have usps informed delivery and I never delete email. Thus we were able to provided records showing usps mail to both of U.S. to same address dating from our I-485 interview. We showed one image per quarter. Ideally an image that was addressed to birth of us, but otherwise an image addressed to me and an image addressed to my wife.

Legally you must be admitted because you are an LPR. Legally CBP has no option regarding whether to admit you. CBP can decide to admit you as a returning g resident (good) or arriving alien (bad). Either way you are legally an LPR. No it doesn’t.

A green card is for living in the USA. Keep spending more time outside the USA than inside and eventually you will get an NTA. Get enough NTAs and eventually you will lose in court. Why do you want a green card if you don’t want to live in the USA?

yes yes yes If they ask, say you presented your Japanese passport line every other Japanese citizen on the flight. Easy answer: you aren’t volunteering to relinquish your LPR status. Turns out Re-entry permits with an expiration beyond beyond the expiration date of a 2 year green card are not issued.

We ended seeing lots of the white stuff on the roads. In California. Near Mexico. Who knew that between Blythe CA and Yuma AZ there are cotton fields? Not me. That was the last place I would expect I see a cotton field. By then time we finished dinner in Yuma it was a chilly 69 degrees. We arrived home just now. The only catastrophe was paying $7 a gallon for gasoline thanks to Apple Maps routing us through California. 45 degrees in suburban Tucson now.

It’s a Canadian thing.