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    SPRING
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    Texas

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    Houston TX
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    Canada
  • Our Story
    I lived in the US on an L1B visa for 5 years, 2 months. I met my husband in that time and we married. I left the US to prevent a visa overstay.

    Initially, DH was a PR. He received his citizenship in Jan 2019. We upgraded our petition at that point. After I-130 was approved, we endured 89 days, 22.5 hours of waiting before my I-130 magically showed up at NVC. The CEAC website was undergoing maintenance when I was trying to fill out the IV. After some frustration and losing data more than once, I learned how to manipulate the system to work and got the forms filled out. RFE setback for my CRC and a request for a marriage certificate for my Littles and we were finally DQ.

    We narrowly escaped the covid Consulate closure - our interview was the Monday, the Consulate closed Friday. We were approved and finally headed "home" on April 1, the day after our 2 year anniversary.

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  1.    TBoneTX reacted to a post in a topic: Name Change & Name Appearance on GC/ Naturalization & Drivers License
  2. mam521
    In my personal experience, irrespective of size and reputation, it doesn't mean the advice given is always good advice. Given the current political climate and the requirement for non-citizens to show proof of status, I'd get a new passport from your home country, request the old one with your visa and endorsement back, and present it with the evidence of a filed I-90 to obtain an ADIT stamp. You will need your greencard or evidence of the filed I-90 to file for naturalization. Once you do navigate the citizenship process, you may want to consider obtaining a US passport card in addition to your US passport, just in case anything happens. The passport card will demonstrate you're a US citizen easily and isn't a break the bank type of ID. Please do the community a favor and fill out your timeline, too. https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=488067
  3.    mam521 reacted to a post in a topic: Name Change & Name Appearance on GC/ Naturalization & Drivers License
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  5.    mam521 reacted to a post in a topic: Reimbursement for Lost Naturalization Certificate
  6.    mam521 reacted to a post in a topic: Wait for NVC letter
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  19. mam521
    I thought for a second there I was reading something one of my kids would have texted me from school when you said someone flushed stuff down the toilets! 🤣 While brain rotting, I saw a TikTok of a girl who had her grandmother's mail - a recently issued jury summons - but her grandmother had passed 4 YEARS previously. Just further highlights the systems are never up to date nor do agencies communicate!
  20.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Applicability of N-600 Application for Certificate of Citizenship
  21. mam521
    I wouldn't risk the passport. Get a passport card or, take a photo of it. The information can be verified by a system check. A US DL or identification card might be helpful, too. I wouldn't stress about it. There's lots of sensationalism out there.
  22. mam521
    Adding to what @OldUser mentioned, the passports are issued by the Department of State. However, the information isn't registered with USCIS and USCIS is the ultimate issuing authority for citizenship. So, yeah...that's why you want the CoC. It's a weird one...kinda like pictures or it didn't happen - get the CoC or it didn't happen, irrespective of a passport. If the passport is lost or stolen after the age of 18, the kids will need proof of citizenship to replace it.
  23.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Name changed but no legal documents
  24. mam521
    SSA? Step-father's last name? This is usually the first stop for people doing name changes, so if your name is the same as everything else, I'd guess the N-600 will be the same. What have all your NOA's for the N-600 said? Intriguing, for sure!
  25. mam521
    Gonna guess not. Alaska DMV uses SAVE verification for immigration status. That AOS receipt is just a receipt so I suspect EAD at a minimum, as you'd mentioned.
  26. mam521
    Have you already applied? What is your timeline for return to the US?
  27.    Pat2014 reacted to a post in a topic: CR-1/IR-1 Questions and Tourist Travel After NOA2/Interview?
  28. mam521
    Check out the rip off pricing for an EV. The freeloading Kid1 has a little grocery getter i3 EV and it's ridiculous!
  29. mam521
    I do, too, but security is the name of the game. Of the European Schengen countries, 29 of them no longer stamp and they join other countries like Australia and Singapore who stopped a while ago. We didn't get stamped in the UK 2 summers ago, either. All biometrics.
  30. mam521
    Not when you needed an expedited passport, so you wait over half a day to submit your application and then wait half a day for them to print it, only to realize they spelled your name wrong and they have to reprint it so you wait another 3 hours. Yeah, I was supposed to get the large book but couldn't spend yet another 3 hours. I'm not worried about it anymore because actually stamping passports is becoming increasingly antiquated. More and more places are going to digital verification and e-gates.
  31. mam521
    That would work. But the issue will become the Affidavit of Support. Has he been filing his US income tax? Do you guys have a co-sponsor already?
  32. mam521
    Food for thought - I know you don't want to be separated (none of us do), but your petitioner will have to prove intent to establish domicile anyway. If the job offer is lucrative enough, it might be worth it for your partner to take the job, register a US income, and set up house for you to arrive to, irrespective of whether an expedite is accepted or not. It could potentially make other parts of the journey easier.
  33. mam521
    Food for thought - you will go into AP (everyone does) and that could take no time at all or it could take a lot of time. Intending immigrants are advised NOT to make plans for landing until they have the physical passport in hand with the affixed visa. The typical issue is work authorization, which you will have, so a non-issue there. Internally, that comes down to politics and what currency you want to get paid in. It really shouldn't take HR that long to get you sorted in the system.
  34. mam521
    Are you guys going to meet both the physical presence and continuous residency requirements? Just want to make sure you don't waste your money applying if you don't meet the requirements, or you plan accordingly and possibly adjust plans so as to meet the requirements.
  35. mam521

    RFE - NIW

    mam521 replied to Sixt's topic in Work Visas

    Yes, the question/concern is you refuse to fill out your timeline and refuse to indicate what your current status is (or, perhaps, isn't) in the US. Agree with @appleblossom - this isn't a DIY response to the RFE. @Boiler has already provided insight as to why it's not a DIY and why a lawyer is in your best interest.
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