Wouter

Thank you! We will go with listing both children as 'stepchild'. For the second part of my question, regarding the tick box 'Are you providing support for this child?'. I would think she should tick 'no' because SHE is not providing the support (it is me who is providing the support). Does this make sense? Any advice or insight into this will be much appreciated! Wouter

Hello, I am a USC and my wife is LPR and has her 10y GC. On August 15th we can submit her N-400 application for naturalization (90 day early filing). I have a few questions about N-400 Part 6: Information About Your Children. I have two children from a previous marriage. I don't have much interaction with them, and they live full-time with my ex-wife. As part of the divorce decree, and as I should, I pay monthly child support payments to my ex-wife. My current wife has basically no interaction with them. My questions: Are my two children considered my wife's stepchildren, and as per the N-400 instructions should they be listed in the Part 6 'About Your Children' section? If yes, then how about the question 'are you providing support for this child?': I am paying support out of my own money, and my wife is not involved in these child support payments. Or since we are married is she considered to be providing support, and do we need to include proof of my child support payments? Thanks, Wouter

Wow I am surprised that it takes that long for so many people. We filed I-751 on 08-16-2023 and got the approval 03-27-2024, so just over 7 months. (Interestingly without interview, the approval letter just showed up in the mail and the 10 year GC a few weeks later)

Hello @blakezero, Currently, US citizens do not need a Schengen visa for any of the Schengen area countries, and can stay for up to 90 days. (It does look like that from November 2023 US Citizens will need to register with ETIAS before they can travel to the Schengen zone). Regarding the time it may take to get the passport (with the visa) back from the US embassy in Warsaw, my wife had her interview in October 2021 and at that time everyone got their visa back the next day, but as @Simplytex mentions, this may have changed and it may take longer now. So not a bad idea to plan for a possible longer time. He is also correct that technically there is no requirement how much time you should spend in the visa issuing Schengen country, but the purpose of a Schengen visitor visa is to visit the country for which you have the visa. It is common for the immigration officer at entry of a Schengen country to ask the purpose of the visit. Of course it is important to answer truthfully, so when you answer that you will not even be spending a day in the issuing country and that your intention is to travel onwards to another country almost immediately, I do believe there is a risk that the immigration officer will flag this as possible abuse, and could argue that you should have applied for the Schengen visa of your destination country. (Perhaps I am too concerned about these things, and there may be people who have had no problems spending less than a day in the Schengen visa issuing country. So this is just my estimation and opinion.) All the best! Wouter

Hi! Congrats on getting the interview scheduled, but now that the waiting is over you suddenly have to hurry to get everything organized, I know how it is. To answer your questions: - you will get the passport with the visa back the next day after the interview - you can fly straight from Poland to the USA if you want. You can also fly back via Turkey but that is not necessary. - you also mention a Schengen visa and yes, your wife's mother will need a Schengen visa to be able to enter Poland. Does she already have one, perhaps from Spain since you are flying through Spain to Poland? If not then that will be something to get as soon as possible. - Don't forget that you will also have to organize the medical examination. I believe this can be done ahead of time in Moscow or you can do it in Warsaw or even in Krakow. Let me know if you want any more information on anything. Good luck! Wouter P.S. Could you fill in your timeline? I would be interested to hear how long it took to get the IR5 visa.