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Winter? What's winter? 🤣 I miss a legitimate, mild winter. SE Texas has no clue what this is.

$2.39 here. Can't say it's under $2.30 across the nation when it's not applicable across the ENTIRE nation.

As @Fr8dog stated, this is against the law. If your daughter presented her valid, unexpired conditional, physical greencard when she was hired, she is not subject to reverification and the employer has no right to ask to see those documents. She should be filing a discrimination claim; employers need to understand the law. From USCIS Employee Rights page https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/employee-rights-and-resources/employee-rights Your employer may not: Ask for specific documents because of your national origin, ethnicity, immigration or citizenship status, race, color, religion, age, sex, disability, or genetic information, or because of any other protected characteristic. For example, your employer may not: Ask for a document issued by the Department of Homeland Security because you are not a U.S. citizen. Ask for a U.S. passport to prove you are a U.S. citizen. Refuse to accept your document or refuse to hire you because of an unfounded suspicion that your documentation is fraudulent. For example, your employer may not refuse to accept your identification and unrestricted Social Security card because you have limited English proficiency. Treat you differently than other applicants because you have, or your employer believes you have, a particular citizenship or immigration status. Ask to see documents showing your permission to work before hiring you, or before you complete Section 1 of Form I-9. Refuse to accept your document or refuse to hire you because your document expires in the future. Limit jobs to U.S. citizens unless U.S. citizenship is required by law or government contract. Ask you for a specific document when reverifying that you are authorized to work. You may present any documentation either from List A or from List C of the Lists of Acceptable Documents to demonstrate that you are still authorized to work. Retaliate against you. For example, employers cannot fire you, decrease your pay, or otherwise try to punish you for: Contacting the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, or the Equal Opportunity Commission for assistance or to file a complaint. Complaining about discrimination or otherwise asserting your or another’s rights. Participating in an investigation or lawsuit on behalf of an alleged victim. Employers should not reverify: U.S. citizens and noncitizen nationals; Lawful permanent residents who presented a Form I-551, Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card for Section 2, including conditional residents; or List B documents. File a claim: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/employee-rights-and-resources/filing-a-discrimination-claim I understand she wants to be gainfully employed, but the employer has no right to be insisting on seeing the card, especially if she has either presented it in the past or has 2 other qualifying pieces of identification that meet the I-9 requirements. The physical permanent resident card is not subject to reverification; a temporary I-551 passport stamp is under certain circumstances. https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-resources/handbook-for-employers-m-274/70-evidence-of-employment-authorization-for-certain-categories/71-lawful-permanent-residents-lpr

Sorry, had to turn it off. Inflation was at 1.7% in Q4? 70,000 construction jobs? Gas prices below $2.30/gal? $18 trillion in investment? 🙄

TSA is not fully funded due to the partial government shutdown. TSA Pre and GE are fully funded. You pay the fee, you attend the interview, you have the biometrics, you receive your preclearance. Paid in full. The service, however, may not be offered due to the limited availability of TSA. Availability of TSA agents due to a lack of government funding for TSA doesn't defund the prepaid Trusted Traveler programs. The decision was reversed because it is understood that Trusted Traveler programs bring operational efficiency to TSA, making their job easier and quicker and DHS don't want to deal with the fallout of angry travelers who've paid for a service they were promised and the promise wasn't delivered on. They don't want to deal with people filing non-delivery of services charges. This government shutdown garbage doesn't happen in any other country. Funding typically continues as is from a previous budget or it goes to a no confidence vote and triggers an election in a number of other places.

🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ "Scholar of the far right" Scholar my patootie. If you were scholarly at all, you'd have done a bit of scholarly reading to find out you can't park there without a plan... You really can't fix stupid.

Sure, TSA is funded this way, but TSA Pre and GE are not TSA. TSA Pre and Global Entry are Fee funded Trusted Traveler programs that are independent of the regular TSA screening. Essentially, security clearance is done in advance and it goes into the Secure Flight System database that TSA accesses to verify you're a low security risk. If anything, you'd want people to have TT clearance because it makes TSA's job easier. Global Entry isn't limited to US Citizens or LPR's, either. It's been expanded to a number of partner countries. Those who qualify for either program pay a fee to receive the benefit of expedited entry (clearance) into the US. It's a pre-paid privilege of sorts. People will get pretty angsty over a fee funded, prepaid program benefit being canceled. They paid for a service and expect it to be delivered on. TSA have to screen everyone anyway and like I said, having an easily accessible profile in the SFS database makes their job quicker and easier. My kid flew from IAH early Sunday morning and TSA Pre/GE was open.

The credit gets reported, despite us not being able to see it until she turned "adult" age. So, she had a credit rating in the mid 700's before she even graduated high school. The majority of her friends had no credit rating. When we went into the bank to show her university acceptance letter and ensure her banking was set to a fee free student portfolio, they gave her her own credit card with a reasonable limit, minimal questions asked. I will need to get another card soon so I can do the same for Kid2 and preferentially one without international transaction fees because it works well to have an attached account to Apple Pay if you're travelling and need to pay for transit. When we were in Europe a couple of years ago, it was super slick for riding the train in London and Milan. Paris still has tickets (ridiculous much?) and Amsterdam - you could get an all day pass. Not as slick as London and Milan, but still better than Paris!

Yes, I said typically, they require proof of residency. You can request your country of nationality, but if you aren't residing in said country, they may choose not to receive the transfer case. It is entirely at the discretion of the receiving consulate. One also has to consider that just because you interview, doesn't automatically ensure you get your passport back straight away. Everyone goes through a level of AP and persons from certain countries take longer than others, often due to the home country's data recording and records systems. If you take vacation, etc to interview abroad and expect to have your passport back within 10 days but your AP takes longer, you may not be able to fulfill those obligations where you reside. At least if you're a PR or have a work visa for Montreal and you live and work in Canada, you won't forfeit those obligations if you interview locally and your AP takes longer. You'll need to apply for the SSN in person. You can do so with your endorsed I-551 in your passport; no need to wait for the physical card to show up. Book now, because sometimes the appointments are quite far out, depending on your SSA office.

Typically, to change it, you have to have proof of residency for that consulate because they don't want people consulate shopping. You also introduce yourself to plenty of opportunity for the case to get lost or pieces to go missing.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣 I love my kids, but there is ZERO chance they're saving my CC number for games and the like. When Kid1 turned 16, I did get a separate CC and put her on as an authorized user. I dropped the limit WAY down so she couldn't make a mess. It was good because she had a good credit rating the day she turned 18 and I could lock out the card, as needed, if needed. She's still on our Apple Family plan and asks permission before she buys $4 games for her phone. Kid2 on the other hand, no chance. He needs locked down.

That's the first time I've seen that. Did you contact Passport Canada? After you get your case number and can escalate up the chain, the guys that deal with the inquiries are usually really good. Did you send her old passport and ask for it to be returned? You'd think that would have the appropriate information attached to it. In the US, I've heard of greencard holders who hold the old, old style card without an expiration being told they need to get a new card that has the 10 year expiration and a new photo. So, I suppose administrative changes can and do happen.

If it makes you feel any better, I purposefully drive Kid2 to school. If I didn't, he'd have to be ON the bus by 6:04am when school doesn't start until 7:16am. He doesn't even wake up until 6:20am unless his miu decides scratches are required. For my sanity and his, I just drive him.

The N/A was going to be my suggestion. I assume that you were able to bring both of them to the US on the basis of your wife having full custody and I know the Philippines is a bit different when it comes to the birth certificates. When there is no father listed, it, for lack of a better term, gives the mother free reign, so in this instance, not applicable in a not dissimilar way to initial immigration. Your wife will have to file a DS-5525 with the child's DS-11 passport application, just as a head's up. Also, the child will have to accompany mom in person when the passport is applied for.

Is his father on the birth certificate? How did your wife bring the child to the US in the first place? If your wife has full custody and the father is estranged, there's not much more you can do other than provide what evidence you have of the child having been in mom's full custody. It's really a case of USCIS covering their bases and ensuring this isn't a case of parental kidnapping. I do agree, get your stepchild's passport first. Do the N-600 second. If the child is 14 or older, they will have to attend their own kid oath ceremony.

This is beyond ridiculous. As you've mentioned, you guys can't be the only ones to face this. I find that the system isn't set up for parents who can co-parent effectively. There's always something interrupting the peace. I get it - they need to know where the kids are but COME ON.

As @.yana said, not many countries stamp em anymore. Lots of facial recognition and e-gates these days. More participants in GE, too. The US is the most reckless when it comes to stamps. CBP seem to open to a random page and stamp. My old, old CAD passport has 7 CBP stamps on 5 different pages in that passport, one of which is the signature page that I don't think they're even supposed to stamp. Some of the stamps are poor and barely legible, too. I can't check the latest passport - sent it Monday for renewal, but I'm positive it has some special repeats like that in it, too. Most other places seem to keep the stamps together. When we went to the UK & EU in 2023, the UK was e-gates at Heathrow, but we did get stamps for exit/entry into the EU when we took the chunnel and then when we flew back to the UK. Everything was on the same page, differentiated by the little train or plane symbol, and were stamped on the same page as a previous trip to Germany via Frankfurt. Japan has neatly placed, fancy stickers with QR codes that they stick in and invalidate with a stamp upon exit. Malaysia and Argentina seemed to stamp neatly, too. The entrance and exit stamps are always carefully placed. UAE was more random like the US.

Don't stress about it. He'll get to school next year, learn about other classes and electives and it'll all change again when he sits down with his guidance counselor. You'll basically do it every year until Junior year. Revisit. Refine. Does Mini-B have an idea of what he wants to do after he graduates? Kid1 changed her mind twice before graduating and has already pivoted her program in Uni. Kid2, despite being a sophomore, still doesn't know. With Kid2, we're keeping him engaged in the STEM subjects he might need, depending on what he decides. We've pushed the AP agenda because the courses are typically better and because he may join his sister back in Canada for post secondary, where the AP's are recognized. Dual credit was an option, but the transferability of courses often depend on the state and school. We didn't want to waste money if they had the potential not to transfer.

It doesn't matter if you agree with me or not. It comes down to knowing your rights. 2 year conditional or 10 year green card is a List A document and does NOT require an I-9 reverification, irrespective of the expiration date. The same applies when using a US passport. If HR or their I-9 authorized representative don't understand the I-9 instructions, that is not your problem. It is a legal issue for them, however, because it's part of Federal immigrant and employment discrimination laws. So, if you've faced scrutiny in the past for presenting a List A conditional green card, you can report the employer or I-9 authorized representative. If the SSA wasn't so painful to deal with, I might agree with you. But depending where you are, they are super painful and it takes months to get an appointment. If citizenship is on your radar, one will have to weigh whether the time spent to update information from restricted to unrestricted GC and then to citizenship is worth it or if it's just easier to do after the fact, especially when one has a perfectly acceptable List A document providing proof of identity and work authorization.

CBP can be challenging to deal with, but they do understand what a temporary greencard looks like and an endorsed I-551 IS 100% a temporary greencard. https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article1287?language=en_US Temporary I-551 https://www.uscis.gov/save/current-user-agencies/commonly-used-immigration-documents

Nah...Gma had mom at 2x2x2x2+2 and mom had me at the same. I did NOT have Kid1 as a manyager. *shrugs* blame the grocery store. Fun fact: like the hotdog and drink at Costco, the rotisserie chickens are also a loss leader. Agree. At least they (usually) are potty trained. Ridiculous. If he can take AP Human Geography, I recommend it. Typically the AP courses have better instructors and, if he scores a 4 or better on the AP exam, they often count as a college credit. Kid1 was mad she didn't take it (she did 2x2x2 or 2x2x2+1 AP's and got her AP capstone) and Kid2 listened to his big sister and took it and really enjoyed it. There are typically only 1 or 2 AP's offered for minor niner's as compared to upper class(wo)men.

You are not required to show your SS card at any point. Employers are required to fill out form I-9 for each employee to verify identity and work eligibility. There is an option for an employer to use SSNVS, but that just checks that a name and SSN match for wage reporting. Many employers now use E-Verify to ensure the I-9 information is correct, ensuring that a person has legal authorization to work. Many larger companies have outsourced I-9 verification to authorized representatives like Equifax. As per I-9 instruction, you can provide a List A document OR you can provide a combination of a List B and List C document. The SS card is a List C document and is simply an option when combined with a List B document. An I-797B or I-797D would be required to get a SSN in the first place, so are a great List C document to present. It is imperative that people understand what an employer can actually ask to see and what the company's data retention policies are. For a while, there seemed to be a number of HR persons who didn't read the instructions and failed to accept an endorsed MRIV I-551. A lot of VJ people didn't think they could begin work because the physical green cards were slow to print and the SSA were one of the slowest agencies to come out of COVID restrictions. You can 100% begin work without a SSN if you can present a List A document or a List B and C document and that List A document does NOT need to be a printed GC and the List C does NOT have to be a SS card. You do have to provide the employer the SSN when you get it because they are required to report your wages, but the employer doesn't need it for day 1. If you're curious about the instructions, they are here: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9.pdf Between SAVE verification and E-Verify, there's a lot of records available to ensure status and work authorization are kosher.

My mom still gets paper bills and does the maths on the envelope - addition, subtraction, long division - to work out what she needs to pay and when. Kickin' it old school...despite barely making the Boomer cutoff! No advice. Just big hugs to you. I wish you could chat with my mom because she might have more insight. She worked in elderly nursing care for over 40 years and just officially retired at the end of January. She would probably tell you give Mama TB lots of hugs, even though you might get a fight. Canadian prairie summer weather - my fav! This is why people head south for the winter. I get it...being a Canuck...Feb/Mar hit and it's like I need a break! I was kinda chuckling the same...hasn't TB bought all the washcloths already? Hubs said our Kroger, which is normally pillaged by early evening on a Sunday, was pretty stocked. He noted there were all the rotisserie chickens one could dream of available. Apparently Kroger forgot Superbowl was on or something...anyway, he wasn't sad that the store was dead and what he wanted was stocked. We have a similar toy and Monster hasn't yet broken it. I have to cycle toys like I would have if he was a toddler. His favorite is still the pipe cleaner.

As soon as you get EAD, you can get a SSN. After the greencard is issued, you just let the SSA know and they'll update the card. Or, like in my case, you don't bother updating the information with the SSA until you naturalize.

Unfortunately, me too To the OP, majority represents about 80 or so percent. There's always those ones that fall outside the bulk. Don't stress.