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Stay calm, positive. Go through important questions with your spouse. Reherse civics questions. Bring the spouse and updated evidence.

The answers should be accurate and up to date at the time of interview, not just at the time of filing. If anything on the form changes between filing and interview (like training, arrests etc) - you need to tell the officer.

Does I-751 allow uploading stuff nowadays? I thought only N-400 did?

Turbotax transcripts? Yes you can. IRS transcripts are better, but my I-751 got approved with printouts of Turbotax PDFs. Just make sure to submitt all pages for all years.

Yes, I read it. The truth is this number rarely helps, and this is the conclusion many on VJ came to after going through this personally or reading many similar threads.

It's up to you which advice you take. You may try, or you may simply give up and let the case slide into denial. It's your case on the line, you may as well pick your priorities.

Wrong forum I guess? As far as I know there's no direct flights. You can have a stop ovet in Dubai, Doha, China.

I double checked. I think you're right, the premium processing fee can be paid by employee. Thank you for correcting

What do you mean by I-797? I-751?

Looks like being a Pakistani citizen is a requirement to have NICOP - https://www.nadra.gov.pk/identity/identity-nicop/ If you renounce Pakistan's citizenship I'm not 100% sure you'll be eligible for NICOP.

1. Neutralization? That's a scary term 😮 2. You don't need to replace naturalization certificate if you don't want. Paper trail (marriage certificates, divorce certificates, court order for name change) will allow you to prove who you are if ever need to get a US passport again and naturalization certificate is needed for some reason.

In USA you'll be only viewed as a US citizen despite having Pakistani citizenship. In Pakistan you'll only be viewed as a Pakistani citizen, despite having US citizenship. If you owe something to US (like worldwide income taxes), you cannot simply move to Pakistan and not pay them. If you owe something to Pakistan, you can move elsewhere to avoid it (US, etc), but some fine or punishment may be enforced the moment you come back to Pakistan. On a positive side, you can benefit from being a dual citizen. As a US citizen, you get 30 days in Pakistan per visit, whereas as Pakistani you can spend unlimited time there. Obviously, US passport allows you to travel to many more destinations visa free compared to Pakistani one.

Every N-400 has an interview. Interview is a perfect chance to do corrections to application. You can create an errata sheet describing all changes to N-400 you need to make. Let IO know before interview starts that you have some answers to update and hand them over the errata sheet.

I'd say yes and list the class name to explain. Then leave to IO to decide whether it really should be yes or switched to no.

Like the the H-1B itself, you cannot pay the premium processing fee yourself. But your employer can. It's worth explaining the benefits of doing it to employer 🙂

Depends on the laws of country. When taking oath becoming a US citizen, you promise to: "that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; " Now imagine you're back in Pakistan and a war breaks out. Based on Pakistan's constitution, you may be required to fight in that war (please confirm with experts in Pakistani's laws). US citizenship won't help as you're a dual citizen and have duties to both countries. If you renounced Pakistani citizenship you probably won't need to participate in defending it.

Yes, you have duties to each country of citizenship, such as military service.

Not required but I would include copy of extension letter to make sure reviewer is aware you have I-751 pending.

They don't need a new SSN. They already have it. It's given once in a lifetime.

Looks like you had to start with I-90 for your green card error...

Request here https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayNDNForm.do?sroPageType=ndn&entryPoint=init

Data point: https://np.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/boa88b/basically_forced_to_withdraw_application_at/ "He disappears and is gone for 10-ish minutes, apparently talking to a supervisor, comes back and tells me that my I-751 shouldn't have been processed because according to my divorce papers my wife and I separated 10 months prior to the I-751 being finalized, even though the final divorce date was 4 months AFTER that. Essentially he gives me the option of having my application denied, detained and to go in front of an immigration judge and potential deportation, or "voluntarily" withdraw my application. I was in complete shock, I've been living here perfectly happy with my 10 year green card not knowing there was some technicality that would prevent me from becoming a citizen, I ask if I can speak to someone else, he says no that he already spoke to his supervisor and that's where the options came from and that he couldn't offer me any kind of advice on the situation. He was extremely rude, blunt and not helpful or sympathetic at all. Pushed a blank piece of paper in front of me with a pen and made me write out that I withdraw my application."

I guess the question is in the title of this thread. Do people miss the times they're waiting for the next immigration benefit? The thrill of getting your case approved etc. I got I-751 approved not too long ago, and it feels strange not to be waiting for something from USCIS. I will be applying for N-400 at some point. Wondering how does it feel like after becoming a citizen?

I think lawyer the OP is talking to soon can come up with the best strategy. Obviously this path: Notify USCIS now => Get RFE for divorce decree => OP's divorce not finalized in time => Denial is not good. But there's a remedy: refile I-751. But the other path is not any better: Don't notify USCIS just yet => I-751 is approved before divorce is final => Misrepresentation / fraud accusation during N-400 is not any better. IMHO it's better to get I-751 denied than wrongly approved on premise of marital union in bonafide marriage. OP's I-751 has been pending for almost a year now. Surely, most I-751s take close to 2 years nowadays, but there's a risk it get approved sooner randomly.

That's true, but I am a strong believer no LPR with pending I-751 should ever assume: 1) The fingerprints will be reused 2) No interview will be required 3) The case will be processed within timeframe of posted processing times Being prepared for everything generally helps in my opinion. I've seen people on VJ being suprized they were called for interview, even though they had one at AOS stage.