Mike E

Are you presently or have you EVER been in removal, exclusion, rescission, or deportation proceedings? Have you EVER been issued a final order of exclusion, deportation, or removal? Check https://acis.eoir.justice.gov/en/

It will probably be ok. But you are starting off your life as an LPR by not living in the U.S. which is not a valid use of LPR status, and according to some CBP officers, not a valid use of an immigration visa. See If you are admitted to the U.S. on your visa, then note it is a one time use visa. Your visa will be simultaneously canceled and converted to a temporary I-551 that is evidence of your LPR status. This evidence is good for one year.

Me neither, and yet given American Samoans have no legal right to enter the rest of the U.S., I cannot say for certain it is impossible.

Since April 1, 1997, have you been unlawfully present in the United States: 78.a. For more than 180 days but less than a year, and then departed the United States? The correct answer is no. 78.b. For one year or more and then departed the United States? The correct answer is no.

IOW, tomorrow. I do not disagree with your reference and I do not see all that happening. Especially since, if embassy is in the eastern hemisphere, by now it is closed for the holiday.

On what basis?

The form says: Part 4. Ability to Understand Oath of Allegiance The applicant will not be able to naturalize without a legal guardian, surrogate, or an eligible designated representative unless they are able to understand and communicate that they understand the meaning of the Oath of Allegiance. The Oath may be administered in the applicant's language of choice and they may communicate their understanding in any manner (for example, by nodding). 1. Is the applicant able to understand and communicate that they understand the meaning of the Oath of •Yes No Allegiance to the United States So if OP’s friend is under a legal incapacity or can convince the clinician that the oath is understood, then naturalization is possible.

Yeah that is a big issue Unless you can show you renounced U.S. citizenship or had it revoked, you are not eligible for N-400. That is, unless you are American Samoan.

You will not be boarded on a flight to the U.S. with a Brazilian passport. Brazilians needs a visa to travel to Canada or Mexico. Otherwise I would suggest flying to either country and entering the U.S. by land using a photo copy of your naturalization certificate.

This is a form for seeking a medical exception to civics and English tests on N-400.

100 percent of he passes civics and English tests.

At least 3 years before visa number is supported to be available, assuming the dates move month for month. There has been no movement since April, when it regressed from C(urrent) to 2020. So optimistically more like 4.5 years before cases filed today are current per visa bulletin. Then, realistically, the NVC / Embassy stall for another 1.5 years or more as we are seeing with F1, F2B, F3, and F4 cases, with the claim that despite the bulletin showing the PD as current, there really aren’t any visa numbers. Pessimistically I could see it being 10 years, if everything goes wrong. Realistically some things will go right, and some will go wrong.

I have observed that when my H1-B colleagues got their EB-2 visa interview dates, more often than not, after flying to their homeland, their parents surprised them with an arranged marriage. So they married before their visa interviews. Their brides then interviewed with them, and the brides flew to the U.S. with derivative immigration visas. So based on those observations, you should married before she had her interview, so that you could have been added as her derivative. Now you are facing a 6 year wait as an F2A. She can file I-130 for you as soon as she arrives in the U.S. on her immigration visa.

In 1988, maybe 5 percent of valley tech workers were born in India. 35 years later it is over 50 percent. DV did nothing to slow this, and nor could it. It was inevitable given India’s population, quantity and quality of national and state universities, and English proficiency. DV is immaterial to diversity in tech.

Well that was a hot mess in improper quotation and lack of data. Especially a lack of primary sources. You retreated without comment on Nobels and biotech. You could not quantify your vague terms either. Google was founded by Larry Page: born in the U.S. His paternal grandparents were Christian. Facebook was founded by Andrew McCollum: born in the U.S. Apple: Woz, Wayne. Dunno if Jobs was a Buddhist when he founded Apple, but I doubt he was raised in that faith. America didn’t need the diversity visa to win WW1, WW2, put men on the moon, invent microelectronics, or defeat the Soviet Union. You deride U.S. Steel and do not mention HP, Shockley Transistors, which spawned Fairchild, Intel, etc. You conveniently forgot Microsoft. The F-1 student visa has contributed more to the U.S. economy than the DV. I’ve lived in Silicon Valley. Never had a single co-worker in tech who came over on DV. And that includes founders of billion dollar companies. And it is pretty simple why: most immigrant founders in Tech will come from India and China, and citizens of those countries are excluded from DV. And Canadians and most Britons are excluded, two other sources of founders (Musk, Henderson for example). DV is a nothing burger compared to other visas.

Yes. U.S. needs younger immigrants. I largely agree. Yes I think it is inevitable. UK / Ireland, India / Nepal, Australia / NZ all provide freedom of movement, and the analogies are apt (freedom of movement between relatively high populous and low populous countries), but it will not do anything to address the U.S.’s aging population problem.

Why were you denied?

FWIW, my wife’s lawyer included all my wife’s address info from the day she entered as a K-1, and only international trips taken since the “residence since” date on her gc. At her N-400 interview, she was questioned about travel between date of entry as a K-1 and her “resident since” date. Her lawyer shut that discussion down, citing the law. So if you are going all DIY, list all travel from date of entry as a K-1 if your total absences are under 18 months.

Having read on this thread that whitey cannot innovate, invent, or discover, we went south a long time ago.

It took me 3 posts to catch the joke in Dashinka’s comment. Well played!

Generally, a previous U.S. passport is sufficient evidence for a DS-11. After this ordeal is over, file N-600.

I do not understand why court intervention is needed when the web site designer could have designed a web site that said: “gay marriage breaks God’s commandment”. The customers could then pay or not pay. Really wish courts would stay out of simple matters.

For an LPR traveling to the US, the green card is the sole travel document. CBP and TSA allows LPRs to book air tickets in their passport names. That plus the fact airport security and immigration exit controls outside the U.S. want names on boarding passes to match that on passports, is why we recommend booking in the name on the passport. Present your GC and only your GC to U.S. CBP. If the CBP officer demands a passport too, while that is illegal, shrug it off, and go with it.

Petitioner needs to file I-865 too