OldUser

For N-400 you need to list all of your trips in the last 5 years (if applying under General Provision). 1) Did any of the trips exceed 6 months in the last 5 years? 2) Have you spent at least 30 months in the US in the last 5 years? 3) Do you have a payment plan in taxes owed? Depending on details, you may be ineligible to naturalize.

Thank you! Didn't realize USCIS was affected by AWS outage!

There is nothing to be worried about. All the hard things are behind. Oath ceremony is more like a celebration of you becoming US citizen. I applied for US passport first and then updated status with SSA.

She should bring errata sheet to interview listing all other names or ways to spell her name. Let officer know she needs to amend answers. This is unlikely causing delays

I'd only bring new one. And won't mention it unless they ask about I-864

You're putting yourself at disadvantage. Having completed I-864 with you means you can give it there and then. Not having it can mean waiting a long time to communicate via emails / portals etc

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.