OldUser

Your overstay got forgiven when you received green card. However, entire immigration can be reviewed when you go for naturalization.

The only worry is when USCIS is not familiar with certain docs, they may RFE. Certified copies is what they see day to day. Not sure about exemplified.

Pictures with family and friends are even more valuable. It shows people around you know about your relationship.

I think you made it unnecessarily difficult. A regular ceremony with officiant + certified copy of marriage certificate is all you need for USCIS. Results may vary when deviating from this regular path

Ok looked it up. Where did the marriage take place?

What is it?

Have papers with you but don't offer them unless asked. It should not be needed.

Naturalized citizen will always have A number. When sponsoring somebody else, for example, you'd have to list it on forms. A number is printed on certificate of naturalization itself.

Yes, it's easier to file without him if you qualify

Is he filing taxes with you every year? Household in this context is related to taxes. For example, 3 friends / roommates are renting the same house. There are 3 households in the house. People who are part of same household typically are: spouses, their minor kids, and/or dependants (say old grandma who cannot care for herself and does not have income). If you somehow combine income together and pay joint taxes (not sure how), then sure, his income can be used. Otherwise he can be a joint sponsor and fill a form, if his income alone qualifies to sponsor somebody.

Yes Yes, I checked the same box. It doesn't work. Here is details:

Yes I got exactly that one from Amazon. Not 100% happy with it because it says Certificate of Citizenship, and not Certificate of Naturalization. The difference is huge! 😃 But overall it does the job of protecting the certificate well.

They do give you a folder with bunch of stuff before ceremony. You can place certificate in there. I have not tried getting authenticated copy. My goal was to leave USCIS building as soon as I could Yes, my certificate was sent away with passport application. I took a digital scanner copy and few photos of it just in case. Yes, it was stapled and folded. Yes, it actually arrived after passport, and unlike passport, it wasn't a tracked mail. If you have history of mailman losing your mail, if you live in apartment building with known issues etc, then yes, maybe applying for urgent passport can eliminate the possibility of USPS losing the certificate. But in my case, I live in my own place and it's pretty reliable. There were no issues. Once I got certificate back I stored it in folder.

Congrats! Not everybody gets a difficult interview, but always need to be ready for it. Did you get approval or oath yet? After becoming a citizen, I highly recommend updating status with SSA and getting a large passport book. Good luck!

Yep

I mean, it's not like anybody can prevent people from doing it. And OldUser isn't going to be there stopping somebody in real world 😅. I just dislike the idea personally. My experience doing expedited passport application was very pleasant. Got passport rather quickly. Initially thought about buy & cancel method too, but spouse said it's not good starting life as a US citizen cheating the system 🥲 It also looks like there is specific category for Life and Death which I didn't realize: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/get-fast.html So maybe buy & cancel isn't affecting those who need to go to funeral etc. Sorry I sounded too harsh to begin with. Just my $0.02.

Risky thing, which us morally wrong to do. Others need urgent appointments for life and death situations... It's not worth it, I got my passport in the mail few weeks after applying.

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So technically, you can apply now if you have digital copy of certificate, and order certified copied for later. You may or may not be asked for original during N-400 interview. I was never asked for original. But you never know. Also, certified copy may be useful / needed for many more things other than immigration.

India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh - all of them neighboring countries are pretty heavily scrutinized IMHO

You can submit the form. Why not submit it? If you have approved green card, your STEM OPT is no longer active.

Yes, they need proof of marital status. I uploaded mine with application. If you don't upload it you may get RFE. https://www.uscis.gov/n-400 In instructions it says applicants MUST provide it.

Yes, looks like a typo on website.

Are you trying to get immigrant visa to come to the US? Then IR-1 is correct. You'd get CR-1 if this is based on marriage to US citizen if marriage is less than 2 years at time of visa issuance.

Only time will tell which one it is!