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  1. OldUser
    2. You need to hire an interpreter or bring one a charity provides. It needs to be a third neutral party who is not interested in interview outcome. Your sister isn't a neutral party.
  2. OldUser
    Crab cakes
  3. OldUser
    Yes, USPS Informed Delivery is way more superior than tracking provided by USCIS. Congrats!
  4. OldUser
    His immigration is his problem. Techinically, he's required to file taxes on world wide income (even living outside the US) until she loses or gives up his LPR status.
  5. OldUser
    Are you sure it's not the details of current marriage that's being asked? At least this is what paper form does.
  6. OldUser
    1) How long was your wife resident for? 2) Are you saying she lived in the US for 3+ years without green card? 3) Why didn't you apply for I-90 within a 90-120 days of not receiving the card? If it's USCIS fault, it would have been free. 4) How did wife come to the US? On K-1 / CR-1 or IR-1? Or did she adjust status in the US? 5) Did she need to file for I-751? Too many questions, I know, but without it's hard to tell whether your wife is indeed a resident and whether she's eligible to apply for N-400. In general, it's possible to apply without GC (again, if eligible, we need to establish all facts).
  7. OldUser
    Spouse wasn't allowed in the building at all. We met outside right after and took pics there.
  8. OldUser
    Either incompetent (red flag) or wants to make money (red flag)
  9. OldUser
    As far as I know, I-129F and I-485 can only be submitted by mail. So you need to print evidence at some point. I'd keep it in digital format until then.
  10. OldUser
    I think the letter should state how early you need to be there? The rule of thumb is no earlier than 30 mins prior to appointment. My ceremony (not your field office) did not allow guests either.
  11. OldUser
    You don't need to do anything. Sorry about everything you're going through.
  12. OldUser
    Time to lawyer up. In my amateur opinion, any benefit obtained through fraud is subject for revocation, even if it was for dependant.
  13. OldUser
    The biggest problems with paid joint sponsor are: 1) Transactional relationship which is a fraud indicator 2) More importantly, the paid joint sponsor could sponsor several immigrants for reward over the course of time, and not even count them correctly on I-864. This is the biggest problem. E.g. they'd put they have household size of 4 (3 family + 1 immigrant), but in reality their household size is 20 now (because of prior I-864 liabilities). IMHO no sane person would be sponsoring a stranger. If they do it for money, they's super high risk they're fraudsters and make money sponsoring many people. Don't do it.
  14. OldUser
    Thank you for detailed report @TwoSwifts! Jokes and comments about officer's desks / looks etc are a bit risky. Glad you got an adequate person adjudicating case.
  15. OldUser
    Your mileage may vary (YMMV). I heard one person being asked prior to oath to produce a 2 year GC... Literally asked multiple times for it.
  16. OldUser
    Got card in my hand. It took about 2 weeks from being approved to receiving it. The plastic quality is good, doesn't feel flimsy. The printing quality is 7/10 subjectively. The ID doesn't have as much protection features as US passport card. Competitively, 3/10 when it comes to security. It features magnetic strip and bar code at the back of the card. Got some booze in a liquor store for July 4th. Never ID'd 🥲 I thought it would be first opportunity to use this ID.
  17. OldUser
    Processing time is currently 9 months for I-129F https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ Things did slow down a bit
  18. OldUser
    Awesome congrats! What a gift for 4th of July! It's always best to be overprepared than underprepared.
  19. OldUser
    Do you have any pending case? If you haven't filed N-400, you don't need to do anything besides police report, probably just for your safety in case if somebody tries using your old GC.
  20. OldUser
    If I-751 is approved, you're no longer a conditional resident. Don't travel internationally without 10 year GC or valid I-551 stamp, you'll get stuck overseas and will have to pay a lot for boarding foil. Police report is a good idea for many reasons. You can apply for naturalization whenever you're eligible, whether you have 10 year GC in hand or not.
  21. OldUser
    This shouldn't be an issue if you have a qualifying joint sponsor.
  22. OldUser
    Who told you that? Adjustment of status packets require I-693 when filing. Otherwise it will get rejected. "Effective Dec. 2, 2024, you must submit Form I-693, or a partial Form I-693 (such as the Vaccination Record), and you must submit it with your Form I-485. Otherwise, we may reject your Form I-485. " Source: https://www.uscis.gov/i-693 Don't use notarios / paralegals to file immigration cases! Don't rely on advice of friends who filed cases long time ago. Things change all the time. You need to be aware of all requirements.
  23. OldUser
    And no bags of powdered sugar, laundry powder or baking soda either 😅 All of this is readily available in the US.
  24. OldUser
    Few things: 1) Did she ever have any line of credit? E.g. loan in her name, credit card, mortgage etc? If not, websites like LexisNexis may not have info on her. This is one of the websites which collects data on people for banks etc to use 2) Did she recently move? 2) More importantly, did she change her name as part of naturalization? Otherwise, I agree with @Lemonslice, I opened bank accounts, credit cards, brokerage accounts as LPR and citizen without any issue. The only time I had some trouble verifying identity online when I just arrived in the US on work visa and had 0 history in the country.
  25. OldUser
    Sadly, verbal approvals mean nothing. They're not legally binding. Is your wife a French citizen? Was she born in France?
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