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Staying married for immigration benefit is bad, on borderline of fraud. If you need to divorce, you need to divorce. Don't wait for joint petition to be approved and divorce right after. That can cause issues at N-400 stage.

Can you check case status outside of your account, e.g. using https://egov.uscis.gov/ ? I wouldn't worry about this, it is a IT systems glitch / bug.

My suggestion: be ready for combo I-751 and N-400 and bring your spouse with you. Bring updated bonafide marriage evidence. Sometimes status for cases is not 100% accurate.

What about jointly filed taxes?

Yes, any of these options are valid. Give one unless asked to list all.

Problem solved 🙂

@ability what's the Resident Since date on your Green Card? Are you sure you're eligible for N-400 as of today? Why are you trying to naturalize under 319(b)? Seems like you made a mistake somewhere.

It's not related to your interview. Processing times are for all cases, not just yours. Seems like your field office got busier, that's all.

My opinion only: you should have notified USCIS about divorce sometime after filing. They approved your I-751 on the wrong premise, thinking you're still married. Would they know about divorce, they could've invited you to an interview to ask more questions. If they denied you due to divorce decree not being provided - you could've refiled I-751 immediately, get RFE may months later and reply with divorce decree after everything is finalized. Yes, you're applying under 5 year rule. But USCIS IO can review your entire immigration history at that point and have more questions about divorce. Please update us when you go through this.

Best to change her name during N-400. Or it was good during AOS. But not ideal when she's about to gk through ROC.

Yes, she'll have to carry it as long as name in her passport is different to name on GC for example

No it won't be a problem with USCIS. Just requires a lot of name changes everywhere else: SSA, foreign passport, DLs. And if there's mismatch in name, she'd have to carry proof of name change to show to airlines, foreign countries' officials, CBP. It's much simpler to complete AOS, removal of conditions etc in maiden name and change it to married during naturalization (my opinion only). Either she has to go through this now if really wants or during N-400. Between those two (I-751 etc) I wouldn't recommend. Overall, it's totally doable and many people done it on VJ.

The easiest solution is to change name when she files for N-400. Otherwise she can do it now. Will likely have to update other docs to match it or carry marriage certificate, for example, if passport name is different to name on GC.

I'll add if you let me: Nothing good is happening if the first marriage was fraudulent.

E.g. "Officer Bob put your case on the shelf to deal with 300 other cases"? I think the case statuses are pretty fine grained as they are. That I agree with. However, OP can use this window of opportunity to get the stamp while not many people know this avenue.

Yes, it's normal. You can have message "Actively reviewing" for months without anything actually happening. Or you may be switched from "Case was received" to some other status skipping other statuses. Status does not always represent accurately what's really happening to your case behind the scenes.

Not always. I've seen reports it's taking 4-6 weeks. In many cases it takes less than 2 weeks. But to rely on it 100% - I wouldn't.

That's one of the first things USCIS officer asks for at the interview if you were to have it tomorrow. I know it's a hassle, but you're required by law to have up to date info on your driver licenses + it's an excellent piece of evidence. Or if it's mismatched or out of date it can cause more scrutiny at USCIS. I hope you guys remembered to file AR-11 and I-865 every time you moved. Good luck!

I travelled to Canada in late 2022 with conditional GC and passport. I didn't need visa or eTA, even though my passport required getting eTA otherwise (if I wasn't a US LPR).

Hi @Dome there's at least two school of thoughts when it comes to submitting evidence. Strict approach I-751 instructions ask for as much evidence as possible from the date of marriage until date I-751 petition is filed. This means every monthly statement, bill etc that's available to you and has value as evidence. Soft approach Submit only evidence since 2 year Green Card date until date I-751 petition is filed. Submit quarterly bank statements or bills. My experience I recently got I-751 approved using Strict approach. I had no RFEs and no interview. VJ members experience Many users used Soft approach and got successfully approved. Important considerations Whichever approach you will choose: - Make sure to provide all pages of each statement or document you submit. Partial statements will likely trigger RFE - Make sure your evidence is relevant and strong. Do not submit local bus timetables unless it has to do anything with your case - Successful applicants think in terms "What all can I submit" instead of "What's the miminum can I submit to get approved?" Your case I don't see IRS tax return transcripts. This is important evidence. Have you traveled? You may want to include plane tickets / hotel reservations with both names. Do you have a car? Are both are you insured? What about copies of IDs for both US citizen and LPR showing same address?

@Danmuji I am a credit card enthusiast, but in this case (USCIS fees) I highly recommend paying with a personal check. If you search the forum, you'll find instances when banks block the charge by USCIS as fradulent (not a joke!). In this case the packet is rejectes and returned. It's much safer to have enough money in account and pay with check. You need to submit I-751 form + G-1145 form and all the evidence of bonafide marriage.

That's the preferred evidence USCIS takes. They don't like long tax returns. Trascripts from IRS are always better.

Use the link below to check status:

That's all that matters. USCIS websites have glitches.

Because countries agreed how to act when dual citizen is in this situation. US acknoledges Greece has authority over you because you're their citizen. I'm 99% sure Constitution of Greece mentions that no matter if you have other citizensips, they consider you Greek until you renounce it. Same would happen if US citizen naturalized in France. US would not intervene usually, unless it's a big politician etc. Same would apply to you in the US, you wouldn't be able to show your Greek passport and ask for their help if US authorities detain you (of course I know you wouldn't do it since you don't like Greece). Just giving an example