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  1. M+K IL
    I've heard you can go straight from TN but it's a gray area. Can confirm my Canadian colleagues and friends normally wait to get H-1B first. There's the advantage that since as you said you can keep renewing TN, you can keep dipping into the H-1B year after year until you get selected - the downside is only IIRC TN gives less time to find another job if you lose it than H-1B? I don't know what the backlog is right now but back in 2016 or so Indonesians and Germans get GC in less than two years total in the EB-2 category, not sure if the queue is longer for Canadians. Good luck!
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    The Ireland entry depends on destination I think. Going from Dublin to London felt like taking a domestic flight
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    Hope you get to visit your dad soon - and that he gets better! You'll probably want to search for timelines in your location to be sure, as processing times vary. In Chicago under the 5-year rule (3-year rule processing is slower I hear) we get our interview notices around 6 weeks after our biometrics. But either way - the notice should be sent out weeks before the interview - if you have an USCIS online account you will see the notices in your dashboard So if you won't be in Lebanon for more than a couple of weeks, and you are in no danger of not meeting residency requirements by being away from the US too long, you should probably be able to squeeze in a quick trip home.
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    Remember that these are statistical - specifically the time taken for 80% of cases over the past six months. So 20% of applicants will have longer wait times but the majority will have shorter ones. Plus as Mike has said it seams USCIS has started doing LIFO now. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/more-info
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    Only the visits before the kid is born counts right? https://it.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/child-family-matters/birth/crba-1/
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    Um... I'm not sure what that means too. "You have not" - is there a typo perhaps? Fingers crossed your application will progress soon!
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    That's a bummer. You have the option of marrying in the US instead of course. Either if your fiancée has a tourist visa, or via Utah Zoom. My wife and I got married in the US, then she went back and applied for her new dependent visa. So in our home country our status is unclear - we reported it to our consulate but we only have to process all the paperwork if we ever leave the US to go back home permanently. So... as far as US immigration is concerned, a US marriage is probably simpler anyway. No need to translate the marriage certificate, no need to change names.
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    She doesn't have to change her name,.it is an option. My wife and I wanted to change our names but decided to wait until naturalization so we don't have to deal with either mismatched names or home country's bureaucracy.
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    Right, what I mean is keep the interview in the home country, as others have suggested. Otherwise, in the future if other relatives apply for visitor visas USCIS might think they would end up adjusting status in country too
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    Probably better for future family members who might want to visit too, right? A family member adjusting status while in country might affect their ability to get visitor visas.
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    Agreed. If someone spends most of their time outside the US, even though they come back within 6 months each time, it could be seen as having abandoned PR status by "moving to another country and living there permanently" unless you have a re-entry permit https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-we-grant-your-green-card/maintaining-permanent-residence See "Abandoning Permanent Resident Status"
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    Same, I have gotten this (in CA) before and after I became an LPR. I don't think the state system knows whether you are a citizen or not anyway. Just decline it stating you are not a citizen. IIRC I did it online as I don't recall ever mailing back anything.
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    Electric? Firewood?
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    Having been to KL, but not yet to TX (apart from airport transits) - yikes!
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    Nice! We had a tankless one in our previous townhouse, bill was low (but we're not comparing apples to apples - it was a smaller house, in a different state, before energy prices shot up thanks to the war). It did take longer to get warm water though so in our current house we hesitated to switch back to tankless. Does yours warm up fast? I feel that too. It can be scary the other way - the last time I took a cab in central London (carrying luggage otherwise I would not have) - I swear some pedestrians -- especially around pubs -- pretend cars don't exist and just blithely loiter on the street!
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    This is actually quite common. Getting H1B is tough since there are more applications than visas issued, though graduating from a US grad school helps as you get to double dip - if your application does not get picked among the special category for people with advanced US degrees, it gets reentered in the general pool. So employers will often try to file for H1B each year to hopefully get through before the OPT expires. Unfortunately ... sometimes administrative processing happens. I'm not sure what's the best recourse is here though. Sorry, OP, this is a rough situation to be in.
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    To close the loop here... my wife just informed me the notices arrived a while ago and I left them on our mail table buried under a lot of junk mail 😅 🤡
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    Ugh, sorry your wife has to go through all that. My wife and I have been luckier but we also have been living in places where new immigrants are more common, so maybe banks etc are more used to this.
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    For Utah looks like you can register to vote online - so if that works and you have a full term driver license, I don't see a need to go to the DMV https://secure.utah.gov/voterreg/index.html (DMV generally doesn't track one's citizenship status unless you get an Enhanced Driver License that can be used to cross land borders - when I swapped my CA license for WA they asked if I want to register to vote!)
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    Yeah, we are planning to update our SS records (name change) as soon as we naturalize, before we apply for passport - so we can update our other paperwork (driver license etc) while waiting for the passports
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    Not necessarily, you can get a SSN on certain visas (definitely H-1B and L1 work visas, but also student visas if you work at the university) and you can get unrestricted SS cards once you get your unrestricted green card
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    Mine didn't ask about water heaters but raised our premium over our old original roof!
  23. M+K IL
    That does seem risky. I have heard advice to limit visits to a cumulative total of 4 months a year, just in case
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    If you use the online portal, upload your tax transcripts too if you have not. I recall reading in this forum that someone's interview officer refused to consider printed material so ... Cover both bases
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    Glad you figured that out! Hope you hear something within the next month or so
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