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Hi everyone, would appreciate some input from the community. I have searched on the forums but have not found anyone in my specific situation. I have an ongoing CR-1 petition for my wife which we started in Canada a few years ago. The petition is now at the NVC stage. I have been keeping it active by maintaining contact with NVC via the AskNVC method. During this time my wife went to Russia for medical treatment, and acquired Russian citizenship (through parents) so that she could stay long enough for the treatment to complete. When the war with Ukraine started, she and the kids moved to Armenia. But she does not have a residence permit there yet. Armenia lets visitors stay for 180 days and then reenter. Question 1 - "Is the petition still good?": I heard that acquiring a third country's citizenship may constitute abandonment of the immigration petition. We didn't know it at the time and that was not the intention. Is this true? And if so - is there any way to prove that she did not intend to abandon the petition? If the answer to question 1 is yes, then Question 2 - "Can we change the consulate": I imagine that even if she could travel back to Russia to do an interview there, Russia is probably not going to work now because of the sanctions. Is there a way for us to transfer the interview to a consulate in Armenia? (She has no intention to move back to Canada for the foreseeable future.) Hope this makes sense, and please let me know what you think. sk