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1. There are only a couple of approved immi medical providers in Canada. On the spousal forum, it's been stated that the recommendation is to NOT have your medical done in Montreal at this time because Telus health aren't delivering the medical packets in a timely manner. 2. I don't know if you have enough time to have a titres test done to determine which vaccines you might need. Contact your local health authority. Many pharmacies also give vaccines. Timing wise, you might not have enough time for multiple series vaccines. 3. Commissionaires seems to be one of the fastest places to get the PRC completed.

Also, how common is your name? I've seen other cases where people have a similar name to another person who actually has a criminal background and they had to go through additional checks just to verify that person was not the accused criminal.

Ah! She finally received her passport! Congrats!

Seeing most K1 filers get it in about 4-6 months. You may want to check this out: People are not trying to be rude or upset you, but many newbies have expectations, both those of entitlement to immigrate and unrealistic ones of timelines and best ways to attempt to skirt the system and find a way to "go faster". The later tends to end up costing a lot more, not just in dollars, but in screw ups and missteps. The rather unfortunate reality of immigration is it's not fast by any means, it's expensive and it's challenging. It is a privilege, not a right. Immi pushes the pause button on life if your entire plan is based around it, but that is simply the reality of it. You either hold your breath until it gets unpaused or you get on with living life to the fullest with no expectations and when the case makes it to the top of the pile, you make your plan to pivot.

Only those who are required/listed on the interview letter will be allowed into the Consulate. Best if you find a sitter to stay with your 6yo. Please fill in your timeline. It will help others to provide you with more accurate answers when you have questions. https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=444744

Can you please fill out your timeline. Once complete, let @Hawk Riders know and you can be added to the spreadsheet.

Montreal is the only consulate that does spousal interviews. There is one panel physician in BC, the rest are in QC & ON. Yes, you have to go to one of the approved physicians (at least BC has one - the Prairie and Atlantic provinces all have to head to BC, QC or ON). Yes, as has everyone else who's gone through the process since Montreal became the only consulate completing these interviews, which was switched years ago. Immigration is never easy, fast or without challenges. As Crazy Cat said, immi takes patience, knowledge, time, planning and money. If you fill out your timeline (https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=445142) , there's a link in my signature to a forum thread with Canadians going through the CR/IR process as well as a tracking sheet for statistics of people from becoming documentarily qualified at NVC to interview. Once your timeline is filled out, you can request Hawk Riders to add you to the spreadsheet.

How long after your interview until you're supposed to visit for an event? Head's up, here. If all goes well, the Consulate will take your passport and it could potentially be up to a couple of weeks until you get it back. The instructions when you're given an interview explicitly state not to make any travel plans until your passport has been returned to you. Make sure you pay the GC fee before you leave Canada to head to the US and activate your I-551. Once you activate your I-551, you will have to update your TT profile online and then stop into a NEXUS enrollment center or send a CBP inquiry with high quality scans of your green card to have your profile updated so you can use NEXUS in the future.

I think the advice of strong ties to your home country is the important takeaway here.

Nope. I know to read carefully. We've successively petitioned hub's N-400 and our petitions (myself and 2 kids) from FP categories with "upgrade" part way through to IR categories and now my N-400. List: - this letter - Your Alien Registration Card - And evidence of Selective Service Registration -Your passport and/or any other documents you used in connection with any entries into the United States - Those items noted below which are applicable to you If applying for NATURALIZATIONAS THE SPOUSE of a United States Citizen: - Your marriage certificate - Proof of death or divorce for each prior marriage of yourself or spouse - Your spouse's birth or naturalization certificate or certificate of citizenship It does say "if copies of a document were submitted as evidence with your N400 application, the originals of those documents should be brought to the interview". Fine - because any ID's provided are listed as needed anyway (DL, passports, birth certificates, NEXUS). But, evidence like boarding passes from trips taken were digital, not physical. Regardless, I know better and will take everything. I still have my folder of all gathered evidence for my 2020 consular interview for our I-130's. I still have my L1 petitions from 2013 & 2016. USCIS creates PTSD and instils hoarding behaviors for documents!

Filed: Jan 4 Biometrics taken: Jan 26; once taken, case tracker said actively being reviewed Interview letter issued: Mar. 6 Interview: Apr. 10 I wouldn't meet the 3 year requirement until April 1. I also front loaded my petition pretty heavily. I don't have many documents listed on the interview letter that I actually have to bring to the interview. Mine is not a combo interview; I entered the US on an IR-1.

Secondary. They will need to check your paperwork (and your dogs' paperwork) and import your car.

Hubs had to do it that way when he naturalized - he had a business trip he had to attend. They did his passport in 3 days or something.

Thanks for the info. We've got a trip to Europe booked for the end of May and it was booked for months already, prior to my N-400 filing . I had no idea until I looked that Houston was traveling at quite the clip for Citizenship applications. I'm on the fence about rescheduling an oath ceremony or just pushing for expedited passports. Guess that will come down to what is said when we call the passport office since they are booking into June already. I don't want to push it if I can help it because Kid1 will be a Junior this upcoming school year and I don't want anything to stop them from applying to both US and Canadian schools and subsequent scholarships, some of which are only available to citizens. We just went through a 5 month nightmare of getting Kid1's Canadian passport. PTSD from being held hostage by government agencies is a real thing!

So, I've got my citizenship interview on April 10. Hopefully the oath ceremony won't take long after that. We know what to do for me - easy peasy, turn up at the Passport office and apply. But Kid1 & Kid2 - they are minors and will be given derivative citizenship. We will apply at the same time as me for their passports, but does the passport office take their greencards? How does that work? Can anyone offer their experiences?

Did you file form AR-11 when you did move? This one might have been a flag, too. The CO sounds like there was a bee in their old bonnet that day!

There's a thread about this already:

If your husband is American, wouldn't you have just filed a CRBA?

No guests at the ceremonies. When Hubs did it, it was more like a DPS driver's licenses, cattle herding experience than a cool, becoming a citizen kind of vibe. Any updates on interview dates to oath ceremony scheduling? Curious because I have my interview Apr. 10 and we've had a trip to Europe booked for months now that leaves at the end of May. Require passports to go to Europe and return.

Happy belated to ex-Mrs.T-B Don't you mean "Wharterburger"? Kid1 loves the gravy from there.

Unfortunately Montreal is (like usual) a bit behind. DQ's for late December/early January were issued letters in the wee hours for May interviews. The OP is likely to miss by a month. @FZG you can try to contact the Montreal consulate, but they are really difficult to deal with and typically take 6 weeks to reply to anything.

You will only receive an email. Print it out - you will need to show it to the office who completes your medical. If there is a group of DQ'd people who become eligible in the same block of interviews, usually the ones with the oldest priority dates are scheduled first.

As one Canadian to another, follow CrazyCat's advice, get married and file a CR1. You stand to lose a lot of independence you're accustomed to if you file for a K-1 and it's a far more expensive, arduous process.

If you fill out your timeline, the members can better assist you: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=444642

It would appear that in many of these cases, filing for citizenship is bubbling them from the bottom of the I-751 ocean floor to the surface. People seem to be getting traction for combo interviews. Just food for thought as you navigate what sounds like a rather exhausting journey!