mam521

One year, many, many years ago, we had no money for tree decorations. I think my dad paid like $5 for this rather naked, Charlie Brown tree. My brother, step-sister and I colored paper, cut it into strips and made paper chains to decorate the tree. We made popcorn garlands and we took cardboard, cut out a star and covered it in aluminum foil to give it the shiny finish we felt it needed. It wasn't the prettiest tree out there, but it certainly was a tree that came from the heart!

Not SUPER lightweight, but lightweight enough - check out Crate & Barrel. I have a somewhat mid mod inspired wire frame one that I paid I think $16 for. Simple. No lights. Just a star.

Oh, I get those. Along with how to enlarge my (non existent) manhood and mini chain saws and hearing aids and anti snoring solutions and how to kill fungus...

And? Inquiring minds want to know how the N400 went! Just actually got back from USPS, applying for Kid1 & Kid2's US passports.

Good call. My grandmother got scammed pretty badly. My dad and uncle worked it out and now do have conservatorship over her accounts. It is pretty disgusting how scammers take advantage of people. My other grandmother asked me to look for some essential oils she wanted to buy for my aunt. She told me they kept coming up in adverts on her social media. I checked into it and, of course, it's garbage and a MLM scheme. At least she asked before she bought it! My annoyance of late is text scams. I received the ole Google Authenticator scam text the other day. Claims "here's your code" but yet, I wasn't even accessing any of my accounts at the time. Did a search - yup, a scam. Delete and report. My e-mail junk folder is FULL of scam garbage, from "FedEx attempts to deliver" and "Temu Customer Support - you're our contest winner" to the classic "I'm Mr. So and So and I have been instructed to award you $2million dollars" garbage.

British Marmite and Aussie Vegemite...not the same (yes, I have tried both), but I think this Canuck will stick to Kraft peanut butter.

See the previous page. Chancy provided information on 10/1. The fee can be paid here: https://my.uscis.gov/uscis-immigrant-fee

It asks permanent residence, not permanent resident, correct? It wants to send your passport with visa back to where you reside as a resident. You reside and pay taxes in Canada presently, hence why your interview is in Canada.

If you paid your greencard fee, it will be mailed to the address on file. Typically it takes up to 90 days. Register for USPS Informed Delivery and you should be able to see and track the envelope when the card is printed. Your myUSCIS account will send notification when the card has been printed.

Congratulations and a Merry Christmas to you from the Consulate!

You'll need to follow the instructions and tag @Hawk Riders to be added. People haven't been following the instructions, therefore Hawk Riders hasn't had the data to include on the spreadsheet.

The application specifies parent's name at parent's birth. You should be fine with your original birth name. I suppose any married person who's changed their name can comment further. I've filled out my kids' application with their father's birth date given name (his last name was changed when he was a middle schooler), so it will be interesting to see what comes out of it when we go for the appointments next week!

Did you file a second AR-11 when you moved the second time within 10 days of moving?

The simplicity of the N-400 makes you think you're doing something incorrectly after struggling with the rest of immigration. It is definitely a pleasant change of pace! Best of luck

Search the forum as there are a number of threads on this topic. There are a number of steps you have to take to import it. It's increasingly challenging to do so these days as well.

That's typically a lie. You have to look at the processing times at the centers themselves, keeping in mind your application can be transferred to a different processing center at any time as USCIS attempts to balance workloads. Currently, the centers are stating 14 months average. Remember, too, that the I-130 is just the first stage. Once it's approved, the DS-260 requires submission and approval then you move onto the interview stage.

You are going to have to find an agency in the US that can do your fingerprints and send the request to the RCMP. This is one option: https://reliabilityscreening.ca/usa/ Just make sure you get the correct PRC. Check the Canadian forum for examples of the correct PRC (it does NOT have fingerprints on it). Many people have ended up with a RFE for submitting an incorrect RCMP PRC.

Schoology has a parent app too. You can sign up and see what assignments are there and what's been handed in (or not). This parenting gig just isn't an easy one! I'd consider a Functional Medicine doctor for Mama-TB. They look at things differently. Just because something is "within range" doesn't mean it's in the correct range for Mama-TB. I have a friend who was struggling with fertility and was seeing a fertility specialist. She still lost a baby under the care of the fertility specialist after rounds of IVF. She saw the functional medicine doctor who determined her testosterone levels were too low and testosterone is the precursor to progesterone, which is needed to keep the pregnancy developing early on. Next round, she had a successful pregnancy and the fertility specialist apologized for not having checked something that seems so basic. The point is sometimes a fresh set of eyes on a case can have a renewed perspective and potentially some different solutions.

Actually, no. Relatively speaking, Canada, by percentage, had more people naturalize last year than the US.

So, have you guys set up Screen Time? If you're set up as a family, even though you're in different households, there's no reason you both shouldn't be able to control it. If she's not interested, you could set it up and control. Mini-B could be locked out of specific apps until he demonstrated to you the work was done, either through a portal (does his school use Canvas?) or FaceTime. Kid2 gets cut off at specific times daily and if there's some rage gaming going on with anger management issues, there's an instantaneous locked out option to "readjust and realign" attitude. The kids were back in Canada while we were here in Texas and the screentime still works...much to kiddo's dismay. Kid1 is a teenager and basically has the freedom to do whatever, but this kid also has a proven track record of self managing and getting things done. Kid2 has no control. Also, if Band is Mini-B's jam, then maybe that needs to be part of the collateral for working. If he goes to HS and wants to continue in Band, it's no different than Athletics - they have to keep their average above 70% or they get kicked out and put on academic probation. If he wants to remain eligible for Band, then he needs to understand and prove that he can manage his time among everything or it's being taken away among the other rewards such as phone and VR. We need to fork over the cash and get Kid1 tested just so we have proof on paper that it's ADHD and can have testing accommodations in place for post secondary academia for said kid. Kid2 has already had 2 psych ed evaluations done and has been diagnosed with DMDD, which creates some different challenges. Neurodivergent kids' brains respond to stimuli differently than neurotypical kids, so the traditional ways of managing using behavior based reward systems doesn't work. For lack of a better comparison, neurotypical kids are similar to dogs that are food motivated. Food motivated dogs can be trained using treats. Nerotypical kids can be persuaded by behavior rewards. But if you have a dog that isn't motivated by food, training suddenly has to become more creative as you have to find what motivates the dog. In ADHD brains, it's a dopamine hit and that doesn't come from the traditional behavior based reward systems neurotypical people try to apply. It's also, in part, why there are certain tasks that you'll see major task avoidance on - no matter how much the ADHDer knows the task needs to be done, they avoid it and will do any and everything else because they know it won't reward their brain. It can actually do the opposite and cause anxiety, which is even more detrimental. Another interesting thing to note is many neurodivergent kids have the MTHFR gene mutation which impacts their ability to absorb and process folate and B vitamins. These are the building blocks for hormones, which dopamine is. Methylated folate is more bioavailable for our bodies to absorb. A nurse who helps treat ADHD patients in a local group I'm in stated she tells her patients to take a methylated folate and B-12 vitamin supplement and combine with caffeine and these people tend to see their ADHD symptoms calm down. Might be worth the blood test and some kid vitamins with methylfolate for the Tornado. Kid1 has seen an improvement when the teenager actually remembers to take the supplement!

Sorry, the attorney. Even worse!!! Fire the attorney! Clearly just trying to set you up for failure to get more money out of you.

When dealing with Immigration, honesty is 100% the best policy. Act like a criminal, be treated like one. Be honest, and everything will go smoothly. If she's coming to reunite with you and work and study, then be honest that that's what she's going to do. Why did your family tell you guys to lie about it? That's what I don't understand.

Proof that the petitioner lives in the US. Copies of lease/mortgage agreements, DL, etc. That said, is there a reason you're choosing a K-1 over a CR/IR-1?

Are you 100% sure the Consulate received your medical? Did you get an additional email asking you to provide an extensive, 15 year travel history?

I have a friend here in TX who just wants Nanaimo squares for Christmas. Every year - "are you gonna make me some of those tasty Nanaimo squares?" Easy peasy!