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  1. No. She's not getting any immigration benefit from you, you cannot withdraw any cases etc.
  2. Can you please clarify? 1) Are you a US citizen? 2) Are you married to the "ex"? 3) Did you sponsor "ex" for Green Card? 4) What solid evidence do you have of her committing fraud?
  3. Yes, I'd send it as is. Unless you have anything new to add 😊
  4. DIY will only cost you filing fees, I believe under $500. Lawyer may do it for around $5000
  5. Or USCIS was just dealing with influx of cases. Agree, this is not extraordinary wait time.
  6. Happens to people all the time. There's nothing to worry about.
  7. Thanks for clarifying. I also researched this topic and wanted to reply with similar conclusion but forgot.
  8. 20 months is pretty normal wait fine nowadays. You may / may not get approved within the next 6 months or you can go ahead and file N-400.
  9. Or WoM, which is more expensive. If end goal is naturalization, I concur, N-400 is the way to go.
  10. One way to attack it is to hire a lawyer to do full analysis and if OP is indeed not a citizen, write a letter requesting USCIS to justify how they came to conclusion OP could be naturalized before 5 year anniversary. Get some action, perhaps another oath and new certificate?
  11. I heard of cases other branches (DoS, SSA) are not happy and ask to reprove somebody's citizenship. In many cases people don't have certificate of naturalization and get stuck in limbo. This is a more interesting case. Hopefully OP's certificate satisfy any questions raised. But if DoS for example, insists OP is not a citizen, and USCIS says they are, it's an issue that's hard to resolve.
  12. Another thing, you can also come on free YouTube show for Hacking Immigration and see what the lawyer there thinks. It would be educational for everybody listening too. Good luck!
  13. Yes you did naturalize early, unfortunately. It may never be a problem. But it may become whenever you try sponsoring somebody else, or many years later when renewing passport or trying to get social security benefits. We just don't know for sure. The lawyers who said it's not an issue, did they put this in writing or was it only verbal affirmation?
  14. Employment in family business is pretty much unemployment in the eyes of many officials. And if you can't even produce paychecks that just confirms that perception.
  15. It happens. Online status is never fully accurate
  16. Ideally you should not travel for some time, say for another 6 months, and then only leave for a few weeks or a month. In general you should spend more time inside the US than outside. If you travel in June for 3-6 months again, that could get you in a trouble. The rules you should care about is continuous residence (no trips over 6 months), physical presence (more days in the US than outside). Every time you spend over 12+ months outside the US or have too many trips / long trips, your residency maybe questioned by CBP.
  17. USCIS won't take responsibility. Instead the person naturalized in error may get in huge trouble if tries to get a job or other benefit and presents as US citizen. Somewhere down the line, 10-20 years later etc, either SSA, DoS or USCIS may revisit their history and conclude they're not a US citizen. Then, if they apply for N-400 again, their claim to be a citizen will be seen as misrepresentation and potentially will mean they won't naturalize and can even lose their GC
  18. No, you should keep them. At least you should make digital copies and store in the cloud. You never know if USCIS / DoS will ask you to prove you got citizenship correctly in like 20 years from now.
  19. Nobody can predict for sure since every case is unique. Please keep us updated.
  20. That's what I did with Amex back in 2016. Looks like it's still available: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/customer-service/global-card-relationship/
  21. Probably. It doesn't hurt to pay SSA a visit either
  22. I'll add more: it could be USCIS software that generates those RFEs not a human. The best of course of action is to always provide everything you can instead of hoping USCIS will take into account various rules and exceptions.
  23. Left hand doesn't always know what the right hand does. People get all sorts of things given / approved by USCIS in error. Just giving a warning since it's unusual for case to be pending this long unless there's issue with a case. Seems like you did your research. I'd file FOIA too. Good luck!
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