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@Crazy Cat @SteveInBostonI130 For I-751 and N-400, don't applicants need to list of dates of travel outside the country anyway? By default subsequent re-entry are known to USCIS anyway?

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-updates-guidance-on-lawful-admission-for-permanent-residence-requirement-for-naturalization How is this different than from before? Since we are K1 to AOS to ROC to N-400, do we just include the I-94 as proof of lawful admission?

Not filing taxes is a crime, regardless if you are citizen or gc holder or retired or ex-military or you owe anything or not, etc. I would download past forms and back file just to clear the record. You lose maybe two afternoons doing the paperwork. But since you are retired, you should have the time. Having a clear record moving forward with the government is never a bad thing.

@ritac23 @grant2 Waiting till Jan 2025 to file the I-751.

Is there a question? Can you provide the exact wordings from the RFE?

Login to your IRS account online and download your last 3 years of tax return transcripts. If you have the recent bank transaction showing IRS payment, that might help.

1. You received the W8BEN because your bank has a record of you being a foreigner from your green card or foreign passport. W-8BEN is for claiming exemption from interest payment withholding similar to the W-8 for US citizens. By NOT filling out and proving foreign exemption, the bank withholds and report a percentage (in your case, 24%) to the IRS and sends you the 1099-INT around January-February for you to include as part of your tax return filing by April 15. For all practical purposes, if you don't expect a lot of interest payment from the bank, you can ignore the W-8BEN. The bank interest payment is part of your of earnings which you include in your tax return filing every year. I posted our experience with the W-8BEN at https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/790033-w-8ben-for-k1-to-aos-filer/ 2. You only get a negative record with the IRS if you don't file your tax return every year as a green card holder or US citizen. Others have posted USCIS and IRS rarely communicate. But for naturalization purposes, best to have a consistent record of IRS tax filing every year.

@ToNhi Not Ho Chi Minh. And not sure what you are asking? Be glad for your smooth approval. Congratulations on your K1. But you still have long processes ahead of you: US entry, AOS, etc., of which any number of things can happen if you lose focus or not prepared for the details. As the football coaches say, focus on your next play.

You can join and browse other past months forums to get an idea of what to expect https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/131-adjustment-of-status-case-filing-and-progress-reports/ I've spent months reading others' progresses in the forums before feeling confident about submitting our own K1 and AOS. I'm now reading up on the ROC forums preparing for our own upcoming ROC.

@Edward and Jaycel 1. Yes, file I-485 while the I-94 is still valid (within 90 days of entry). K1 visa is only good for 1 entry, and becomes invalid after US entry or past expiry date. Yes, the I-485 NOA1 is proof for "authorized stay" while waiting for AOS approval. As a general rule, sooner you send in the I-485, the better. 2. DS-3025 copy within 1-year of filing the I-485 is sufficient to be included in the I-485 filing. That does not mean USCIS may not request an I-693 RFE later, or USCIS may send you a Courtesy email saying you do not have an I-693 in your petition. You can choose to complete the I-693 if you are not sure the DS-3025 was compliant/complete, but most wait till an RFE before going thru the I-693.

Yes. Hand write in any fields as necessary.

Congratulations on the Global Entry and the name change. Your wife should still travel with the marriage certificate to link the names along with the GE card, passport and green card. The only difference is that on return from an international travel she will go through the GE line instead of the regular CBP immigration line. The GE officer may or may not ask to see the documents. My wife has yet to be asked to show the marriage certificate or the GE card. And I've only been asked 1 time to show my GE card. Since she recently updated her foreign passport to the marriage name, we plan to update her GE with the new passport so she won't need to travel with the marriage certificate anymore Also a word of warning about customs declaration with GE. Since GE are Trusted Travelers, one condition is that you know the customs law and responsibility so you volunteer your customs declaration. In other words, the GE officer most likely will not ask you if you have anything to declare. You declare through the kiosk, or you voluntarily hand over the customs declaration form to the GE officer without them asking for it. If you do not, and you are caught with undeclared or illegal imports somewhere down the road, your GE can get revoked along with fines or even confinement by the CBP.

We didn't have multiple pages divorce decree. So our ROM paperwork is not too bad with the LA Philippines Consulate. It took us about 6 months to receive it after sending in the application.

If these instructions apply to you, https://vietnamembassy-usa.org/consular/instructions-registration-retain-vietnamese-citizenship then best make sure your Vietnam paperworks are in order. If Vietnam still recognizes your Vietnam citizenship and passport, then just use your Vietnam passport to enter Vietnam. And return to US with your US passport. No visas needed. Make sure you upload both your passports to ALL the airline(s) for your flight(s) and connecting flight(s). This will make your gate/boarding checks much easier.

My wife had passport in maiden name and green card in marriage name. Global Entry was in maiden name to match passport and was told to update the Global Entry whenever the passport name is updated to marriage name. Just need to go to nearest GE office, no appointment necessary. She traveled with our marriage certificate to link the names, no different than without GE. She just needed to present the marriage certificate to GE if asked, no different than going thru CBP Doesn't matter when the name changes. The passport name still needs to be changed afterwards and then updated for GE. Currently, Mobile Passport is only for US passports. Foreign passports with green card can still get GE. Sounds like airline(s) ticketing system issue rather a passport issue. May need to have airline(s) manually update your name to match the passport. Keep in mind not updating your name to ALL connecting airlines systems for a flight can still have issues with the ticket name. GE will match to your passport name. Yes, getting GE interview is the biggest obstacle in the process. Enrollment on arrival is an option provided that your international flight arrival time and airport coincides with the GE office schedule.

@Noname93 As others have mentioned the advantages, I too recommend as well, and documented some of the things to watch out for when applying for Global Entry at https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/799684-global-entry-with-conditional-green-card/ Also, apply soon since the Global Entry fee will increase in October 2024, from 100 to 120 https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-trusted-traveler-programs-fee-changes And for someone going thru the visa process, both petitioner or beneficiary, the Global Entry is an extra background check, which may be beneficial since CBP, TSA, Homeland Security, USCIS, etc. are all interconnected if not integrated. If you have a clear background, clearing as many of the checks may be an advantage to expedite other checks

What is odd? I'm not sure how it compared to the previous?

Did USCIS cash the check of the fee payment?

The VJ data for Advanced Parole is at https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/apstats.php We got AP in the EAD combo card, which took 191 days for us.

Someone that received the same email as mine from March 2023, posted in the thread that they just resubmitted their DS-3025 and were approved. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/798091-request-for-form-i-693-courtesy-email/?do=findComment&comment=10840726 It was a risk they were willing to take.

Yes, we were approved shortly after if you look at our Timeline or Profile->Our Story. Someone else was also approved shortly after by re-submitting their DS-3025. So who knows what's really going on? I also called USCIS about our I-693 Courtesy Email and got no new info. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/798091-request-for-form-i-693-courtesy-email/?do=findComment&comment=10823551 Here are my thoughts about the I-693 medical. USCIS reserves the right to question if the DS-3025 overseas medical is compliant/complete or not regardless if it is in the validity period or not. And USCIS can do so by requesting an RFE for the I-693 medical. So by not doing the I-693, there is a chance that you delay the process with an RFE. By completing the I-693, the DS-3025 overseas medical is overridden and the medical would not be the issue to delay the petition. In our case, we did our K1 over the pandemic and we were willing to do anything to speed up our approval. The I-693 medical cost us an extra 540, and the US Civil Surgeon did spot a missing vaccine that my foreign spouse needed, so we probably pre-empted an RFE and saved some wait time?

@salamismiley we had something similar with the Atlanta Field Office with the Great I-693 Courtesy Email of March 2023: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/798091-request-for-form-i-693-courtesy-email/ And the wait time with the Atlanta FO at the time was about 36 months. The Courtesy Email is not an RFE so your choices are: 1) ignore it, or 2) follow thru with the instructions. We chose #2 if for no other reason but to interact with the FO in hopes of getting feedback sooner. Others chose not to for various reasons from not wanting to pay more for the I-693 medical to insisting their DS-3025 overseas medical were compliant. The FO did not have to send you a Courtesy Email and you wouldn't be the wiser until an RFE. The Courtesy Email is to just let you know what they like to see probably without having gone thru any of the cases yet, and give the petitioner a chance to upload any incomplete documentations in hopes of reducing the number of RFEs to be sent out later which could further slow down the overall caseloads.

Well you seem to contradict yourself about living in the Philippines to remarry for the sake of contradicting yourself. Can't help you with that. Yes, CR1 also has to removal conditions for the green card so background check for criminal history do matter despite you saying you don't have to disclose criminal history. For K1, criminal history does matter in the I-129F and in the I-485. So in both cases, criminal history do matter regardless if you disclose to USCIS or not. So both are contrary to what you said if your intent is to hide the criminal history. And I don't even know what you are talking about no waiver for multiple petitions. USCIS will find out either way. I have no problem with either the pros or cons of the ROM. But you contradicting yourself or saying false statements about criminal history just confuses the issue if not yourself as your posts show.

Well you are in the wrong thread. See the title. Go create your thread.

Maybe you didn't understand? Philippines passport name change requires the ROM.