jackiegringa

Does it really matter? Will there be an answer that will satisfy you? Every time you interact with immigration, including CBP they take your biometrics, as an immigrant you don't get a lot of say of when and how your image and fingerprints are going to be used. Since your at the end of your journey, with a couple a weeks until the end, just focus on the light at the end of the tunnel and let the rest fall away. You're done!

Another less stressful explanation is that they need you to send updated evidence from date of filing until now, it's been a year or so. I'd take that as sign that the I-751 could be approved soon after they receive the RFE.

No one is coming over to ask you about it. You're the one that need to file an application with evidence of continuous residency.

Processing times for VSC are 26 months so you're well within that. I don't think your representative can do much at this point. If citizenship is the end goal there's no reason to wait until is done. The processes can run in parallel and lots of people get scheduled for their N-400 way before the I-751 gets adjudicated, give or take a couple of weeks for the approval if it's not a combo interview.

Ok, this is a great thing to learn when dealing with immigration: answer what was asked. Don't say anything extra. It will make things straightforward. This is advice you pick up by hanging around forums and people sharing their experiences, so find the AOS monthly thread for your process and read the posts. I'm mentioning this because I stated some examples of standard questions you might be asked and you replied with both families backgrounds and issues. The answer to "have you met family?" is yes/no if yes, when. Nothing else is needed and might save you extra questioning for volunteering information. The more financial mingling the better, photos and affidavits are secondary evidence. Treat it as a job interview where you need to put your best foot forward. The immigration officer doesn't care about your love language and anxiety, they care if you got married to get a green card or not - this is very matter of fact what is being probbed in the AOS process. Good luck!

Not really, interviews are part of the immigration process. Understand the forms your filling, have a conversation with your spouse about the answers you both have for basic questions like where did you meet, habe you met family, names and dates for important things etc. You don't have to worry if your relationship is genuine. After AOS you will have ROC and possibly naturalization if desired. Get comfortable with immigration forms, norms and procedures. You can't let anxiety ruin a straight forward process, even if it's stress inducing and infuriating as times.

Considering they all have 10 year green cards and there are no long trips (6 months) outside of the us, your husband should be already eligible. You check it yourself here https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/learn-about-citizenship/naturalization-eligibility-tool

Yeah that's bs. You had all past three returns as expected, it's not April 15, there is no reason for it to be the one piece of evidence that will approve or not your application. Someone just needed to feel important, it will delay but it won't stop you, it's the home stretch! Good luck

Please clarify with your husband exactly what happened during the interview. "Reading and writing" IS the English test, so what is going on? You can't pass reading and writing and fail the English test. What is the box checked on the form your husband got from the officer?

(B) BUT DHS says certified copy is fine: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/apply-in-person.html#:~:text=ALL%20%2F%20ALL%20%2F-,Get%20evidence%20of%20U.S.%20citizenship%20(and%20a%20photocopy),of%20the%20official%20issuing%20authority. Your evidence must be an original or certified, physical copy. A certified copy is any document that has the seal or stamp of the official issuing authority. I've seen a lot of discussion on this and there are two main sticking points: the person accepting your passport application might not accept the copy, regardless of what the DHS says and that getting the certified copy from USCIS might as well be impossible. I think it's worth the try but I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Yes there's a chance of the certificate to get lost but most people get them back.

This is a green card granted from parents/step parents and not marriage, her temporary green card is the stamp on the passport while the plastic card doesn't come - no I-751 will be necessary OP, do file for FOIA on her case and do the AR-11 to change the address for the green card delivery. All the other issues will be easier to deal with after the plastic card is in hands. Talk to the embassy again to ask what's the procedure when there are no documents available, maybe she can get another birth certificate first? Or the police report on lost documents if comes to that. Try to exhaust all options to get her documents from the parents first, she is a permanent resident and will continue to be even when the temporary stamp expires.

Great question, the removal of conditions is much more on the immigrant than on the original petitioner. This is important @Zumbadaddy, if the form wasn't filed correctly your package can be rejected!

Quite a while, hard to predict but 1-3 years isn't uncommon. However she can work and travel using the extension letter and if by chance it goes beyond 48 months there's ADIT stamps that act like a temporary green card. After you file the I-751 there's nothing else to do but wait to be called for the interview. Since your spouse is from Japan I imagine she might not want to file for citizenship, that would be the last step in the immigration process. It's very unfortunate you didn't read on the green card process and only found this forum after months into a I-90. The removal of conditions is a necessary process to go from a 2 year green card to a 10 year green card and the I-90 USCIS webpage has an explicit warning about this exact scenario - do not file if you are a conditional permanent resident, you need to file a I-751. It is difficult to deal with the consequences but in this case USCIS didn't do anything wrong, you simply didn't file what was needed correctly. The onus was on you and your spouse to know what to file and when, and that is explained on their website. The people (in the forum or in real life) suggesting a land entry via Mexico or Canada are not suggesting anything out of the ordinary, there are ways to enter the country via land that are simply not available via air, and in a situation where a spouse would have to choose between land entry and no entry, lots of people would take the land entry, however inconvenient or costly that might be. I am sorry this happened to you, and I encourage you to stick around the forum, learn more about the immigration process and even help other people in the same situation in the future.

It really isn't, lots of people have to wait for the I-751 to be adjudicated for the N-400 to be approved. It sucks but it has happened before. It's been only a week and your case has been moved, meaning it is doing something instead of just sitting in place, so give it a bit more time and you will get both approved soon.

Reviving the thread - filed for citizenship this January and have my interview set to April. Hoping for a quick turnaround for the oath as well!

Just make sure you received your NOA for you N-400 and on that letter there's your extension of two years from your green card expiration, no need to sweat if it's gonna be done in 4 or 7 months then!

Confirmed for combo interview 🎉

Then you were very lucky, lots of people wait ages for I-130 or I-485 approval. ROC are lowest priority and have been slow for years now. USCIS only deals with people going through the legal process so even if your assumption was true this makes no sense. Asylum claims (which is a legal immigration path) are not affecting anyone's ROC process. If applying for citizenship is something of interest, N-400 are flying off the shelves these days and can be done in tandem with I-751.

I can see the interview notice from USCIS and a second notice from the local office named for me and my partner on my USPS informed delivery but it hasn't been delivered yet. Marked for Saturday, I really hope it comes through today!! By the looks of it, since it's from the local office and names my partner I am assuming is an in invitation for a combo interview but I can't be sure until it's delivered. Don't let me down again USPS!!

Yes, that's how it is supposed to be. You are not working without authorization while on F1 and receiving a PhD stipend, it's just how it is structured with universities - you received a W2 and that counts for income for the IRS and USCIS, but the university will still claim you're not an employee when it comes to workers rights, unionization etc. So just list the university as an employee for the PhD then your postdoc institution in the employment section, with the correct dates. For clarification for others: It is a grey area only for universities because they don't want the claim as employer but trainee, nothing more. That stipend money is also declared with tuition costs on your I-20, if I recall correctly. There's a possibility of having a job up to 20 hours/week on campus that will pay you on top of your stipend and that's legal as long as you follow the protocol at your school for it, mine didn't allow more than 10 hours/week for example, but it is within the legality of the visa.

Maybe you tagged the wrong profile? Seems like this one hasn't been active in years. There's a website with the schedule for oath ceremonies here: https://www.moeb.uscourts.gov/naturalization-information Clearly no same day can happen by i hope it doesn't take too long either.

It does not, the processes can happen simultaneously. But you won't be approved for the N-400 until you have your I-751 approved as well. It's been 5 years, so way way past normal processing times. Edit: I see your renewing your ADIT stamp yearly, that's good. You can start your N-400 process, including all your marital changes but please go after your I-751 while you're at it. Start with USCIS for an inquiry about being out of processing times, escalate to your local representative, etc. Sometimes even the filing of the N-400 helps move the I-751 along but you need to figure out why it's been 5 years and your still stuck at biometrics taken with no other movement in that process. https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayONPTForm.do?entryPoint=init&sroPageType=onpt

That's exactly it. You're writing paragraphs in perfect English, there's nothing that will trip you up. The sentences are similar to the questions on the civis test, as you will have to read " who was the first president" and write "the first president was George Washington". Don't overthink it, it's one phrase each.

Past 11, still awaiting on the letter

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