mam521

This is how mine was handled in April of 2023. Returned upon receipt of the passport.

Do you already have an approved I-130?

Likely no less than 6 months, possibly more than a year. The thread posted above are all Montreal interviews that were handed the DS-5535.

I naturalized in April and got my passport right away. We just got passports for my kids in Dec. 2023. The post office took my physical naturalization certificate and sent it with their applications. You'll need the actual certificate unless you have certified copies of the original.

https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=464705 No expected date and no guarantees it's the 3rd week.

As a person that owned a house and sold it while in the US, sell it before. My word - dealing with CRA is a pain in the rear to begin with, but dealing with CRA NR division is even worse, if that's believable. Tax withholding coupled with clearance certificates...sell before!

It's advised you wait 10 days before you apply for your SSN. After that, it's not long. Register for Informed Delivery and you can watch for the envelope to appear in mail tracking. You can begin working as soon as your visa is endorsed as it serves as proof of identity and employment authorization. If an employer tries to deny you the opportunity to begin work, show them the instructions for form I-9.

If the status has been changed to IR1, then nothing else needs to be done. You'll have to wait for your interview.

How do you live off of ZERO income for 8-10 months until EAD comes? Yeah, the OP is living with his father, but is still earning an income. Does one really keep on working illegally, with the hope that the violation is forgiven? Would the Canadian employer even allow remote work from the US? I'd think that is NOT advisable.

Another update: We've received both kids' passports. Appointments: Dec. 19 Issue date: Dec. 26 (both passports) Receive date: Kid 2 - Dec. 29 Kid 1 - Jan. 3 We have NO idea why the passports were sent on different days, despite being issued on the same dates. We also don't know why one came Priority 1 day and the other Priority 2 day. Regardless, they popped up in my informed delivery. Now we wait for the return of the (stapled) documents and the passport cards.

If he was 14 and had his social, he should have been able to. Regardless, we agree, it's really problematic for people not to be receiving that stamp! Bad decision, CBP & USCIS! Bad decision!

Dealing with USCIS is one of the most unfun things you can do and you want to minimize it as much as humanly possible! Do consular processing. Avoid AOS and hopefully ROC. While my process was pending, I could travel to and from the US, I could visit my spouse and he could visit me, we could travel internationally and most importantly, I could work my job in Canada. After I interviewed at the Consulate, I entered the US with my greencard in hand. I didn't have to do anything else. I walked into the SSA and got my SSN, I could travel in and out of the US freely, I started accruing time towards my citizenship. We chose to enter 1 day after our 2 year wedding anniversary so my kids and I would receive 10 year greencards and not have to go through the headache of removal of conditions (ROC). If you adjust, you can't work initially (and you're currently breaking the law with potential impact by working remotely despite it being for a job in Canada, FYI), you can't travel outside of the US initially, you have to pay to adjust, then pay again to remove conditions. Removing conditions, if you read on here, can be a pain and often people aren't issued their 10 year greencards in due time and are stuck with extension letters and a ton of hassles dealing with USCIS. I also don't know how your approval odds would be considering you'd have ZERO income between the two of you. As an outsider looking in, it makes a helluva lot more sense for you to go back to Canada, keep working and apply for consular processing. You can keep visiting as you have, but put as much money away as you can and don't serve as a distraction to your partner so she can finish school and get a job to sponsor you. As I've said many times before, immigration is a privilege, not a right and the amount of time it takes to get through the process properly is minor when you consider marriage is supposed to be a life long commitment. Additionally, starting a marriage under financial duress is a surefire way to end up on the short path to divorce court.

Fail on my part. I read 6-7mo, not YEARS for the OP!

If you get married and apply for consular processing, you enter the US with a greencard in hand, able to apply for a SSN and work straight out of the gate. If you get married and adjust status right now, you cannot work until work authorization is issued, you cannot leave the US until your travel document is issued, you have to not only adjust status, but will have to remove conditions on your 2 year, conditional green card (when you finally get it). Not sure how you two would survive financially without you able to work for likely 8-10 months. You still haven't said if you're working remotely. This is prohibited. If you are working remotely, I suggest you stop immediately. That can cause complications with your case, no matter what direction you choose to take on your immigration journey.

Your stepson will have to attend an interview if he has to go through the I-130/IR-2 process. The custody arrangement is going to have to say your husband has sole custody or custodial parental rights and the mother NOT having custodial parental rights or else she'll have to sign a declaration stating she knows the minor is relocating permanently to the US. Your husband indicated he had this child when you guys filled out his K1 paperwork, correct? There may be some follow-to-join benefits available. I'd look into that, as well.

Did you call and let USCIS know your status change? No one can tell you exactly when your interview will be. Please fill out your timeline: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=464705 and if you look in my signature, you'll see a link to a tracking spreadsheet. Follow the instructions at the top to be added. These statistics help people like yourself take a reasonably educated guess on when you might see an interview.

Hopefully not working - this could cause some issues.

You can get a state issued ID that is simply that - an ID. The states that issue Real ID's all use the SAVE ID due to obligation and I know 100% Texas ID's are only issued with visa or GC expiration dates coinciding with the state issued ID. Regardless, its an unnecessary layer in an already convoluted and complicated process!

TLDR: Houston citizenship processing is fast and passports are currently back to regular, reasonable processing times. Houston filer here. I applied about this time last year, online. I had my first NOA within a day. I was notified of biometrics within the week. I applied under the 3 year minus 90 day rule, so I had to actually accrue my 3 years (April 1). My interview was scheduled for April 10 and my oath ceremony on April 27. I had imminent international travel for work, so I did waste 2 days of my life, sitting in the passport office. Do not recommend unless absolutely necessary. It was LONG and BORING sitting there. We just applied for new, expedited passports for my kids (Dec. 19) and I already have one passport in hand and Informed Delivery is showing a second package from the Tucson passport office scheduled for this week, so I'm assuming it's the second passport. I have no idea when we'll get our documents and the kids' passport cards sent to us. When DH did his citizenship in 2017, it took 19 months. We were fully expecting it to take a lot longer than 4 months.

I wonder if there will be a push for SAVE verification or reliance on state issued ID? Right now SAVE is only available to federal, state and municipal governments. It really makes no sense considering people get the ADIT stamp to affix to their passports. Why wouldn't CBP stamp the damned passport?

This is how I interpret the FBAR rules myself.

The visa is affixed to the passport. The associated paperwork that used to come in a sealed envelope from the consulate is now electronic. The CBP officer accesses the electronic record, verifies the information and stamps the passport near the visa to validate it. The stamp with the MRIV together serve as the temporary I-551 valid for up to a year and indicates the passport holder is now an LPR.

If you need a “number” for the minor for things like income tax and health insurance, apply for an ITIN. Once you’ve married and adjusted, apply for a SSN for your stepchild.

So a little update. We went to The Woodlands post office today for the kids' passport appointments. It was the usual USPS cluster delight. Thank goodness we had appointments. The guy took the applications, copies of my TX DL, a copy of Kid1's CAD passport because annoying child forgot wallet with driver permit at home. Took Kid2's info and the notarized DS-3053 (their father is in Canada - he signed and had notarized when they visited). Took original birth certificates (and photo copies), my naturalization certificate (and photo copies), applications and photos. He STAPLED through the birth certificates and naturalization certificate (I'm DISPLEASED. Canadian birth certificates are on a special, plasticized paper like the Canadian currency bills are made of and I didn't want holes in my certificate! DoS always says not to staple things when you send to them so what the deuce?!). He also took the kids' greencards, sealed them in envelopes and attached them to the applications. He did intend to send them together since there's only one original naturalization certificate. We did ask for expedited processing. I'll update again once I have more info.