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  1. 1. How many languages do you speak?

    • 1
      29
    • 2
      51
    • 3
      29
    • 4
      7
    • 5 or more
      7
  2. 2. What is the primary language you speak?

    • English
      83
    • Spanish
      4
    • German
      4
    • Italian
      4
    • French
      3
    • Chinese
      0
    • Japanese
      1
    • Russian
      3
    • Creole
      0
    • Tagalog
      2
    • Local Dialect (please specify)
      1
    • Other (please specify)
      18
  3. 3. If you could learn a language you don't already know...what would it be?

    • English
      1
    • Spanish
      29
    • German
      9
    • Italian
      9
    • French
      14
    • Chinese
      8
    • Japanese
      11
    • Russian
      10
    • Creole
      0
    • Tagalog
      4
    • Local Dialect (please specify)
      5
    • Other (please specify)
      23


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Filed: K-3 Visa Country: Jamaica
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I speak English and German fluently. Advanced Spanish. Would love to learn Japanese.

AOS, EAD - 115 days from mailing AOS to conditional Green Card in Hand

06-07-08 - File to remove conditions

4/28/09 - Moved to CSC

06-20-09- Received 10 year Greencard

Citizenship

07-09-09 - Filed N-400

Joel 2:25 (Amplified Bible) And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten--the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Jamaica
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I would love to learn Chinese, Japanese, German, and brush up on Spanish (learned it in school from primary days but stopped using it :()

N-400 - Naturalization/Citizenship

10/26/12 - Sent N-400 packet to Phoenix lockbox via USPS mail w/Certified Delivery, received 10/29/12, check cashed 11/02/12

11/05/12 - NOA-1 received, notice date 10/31/2012, received and priority date 10/29/2012

11/09/12 - Biometrics notice received, biometrics appointment date 11/19/12

11/21/12 - In line for interview scheduling (letter received via USPS mail 12/17/12)

01/16/13 - N-400 interview/testing - APPROVED! Oath ceremony letter received late Jan. 2013

02/26/13 - OATH CEREMONY COMPLETED - NATURALIZED US CITIZEN!

751 - Removing Conditions

06/28/08 - Sent 751 packet to CSC via USPS Priority Mail (signature required)

07/05/08 - NOA received, dated 6/30/08

10/23/08 - Card ordered: APPROVED! (USCIS website)

10/30/08 - 10 YR GREENCARD RECEIVED

K-1 and AOS

07/07/05 - K1 Packet received - USPS tracking

09/19/05 - K1 approval online

12/01/05 - 1st K1 interview in Kingston: need updated birth certificate

12/13/05 - 2nd K1 interview in Kingston: Approved!

05/01/06 - AOS/EAD packet received

08/09/06 - AOS interview in SF: APPROVED!

08/19/06 - 2 YR GREENCARD RECEIVED

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Live your life!

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Brazil
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I speak Portuguese as my primary language, English as second, and Spanish as a third one (still getting fluency on it). I´ve studied French for 2 years and Japanese for 2 years more. My choice to learn a 4th language would be Japanese.

(Puerto Rico) Luis & Laura (Brazil) K1 JOURNEY
04/11/2006 - Filed I-129F.
09/29/2006 - Visa in hand!

10/15/2006 - POE San Juan
11/15/2006 - MARRIAGE

AOS JOURNEY
01/05/2007 - AOS sent to Chicago.
03/26/2007 - Green Card in hand!

REMOVAL OF CONDITIONS JOURNEY
01/26/2009 - Filed I-751.
06/22/2009 - Green Card in hand!

NATURALIZATION JOURNEY
06/26/2014 - N-400 sent to Nebraska
07/02/2014 - NOA
07/24/2014 - Biometrics
10/24/2014 - Interview (approved)

01/16/2015 - Oath Ceremony


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Filed: Country: Indonesia
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I speak: Indonesian, English, and 3 traditional Indonesian languages (from different tribes)

Would love to learn Dutch since my grandma & my father speaks fluent Dutch.

Our K1 Journey Click Here
K1 Interview in Jakarta Click Here
AOS Journey:
May 02, 2006 :AOS Sent to Chicago...Let the couting begin
May 03, 2006 :AOS received in Chicago
May 12, 2006 :Received NOA1 dated 05/09/2006
May 22, 2006 Biometrics Notice Rcvd dated 05/17/2006
May 30, 2006 :Biometrics done in ASC Birmingham
July 01, 2006 :Interview Letter received
Aug 30, 2006 :Interview in Atlanta & got RFE for I-693A! OUCH!!!
November, 2006 :I-693A Sent. The waiting goes on...
April 4, 2007: Infopass & it doesn't help at all!!!
April 18, 2007 :Contacting our Congressman.
May 18, 2007 : E-mail rcvd, Welcome Notice Sent! Finally!!!
April 22, 2007 : E-mail rcvd, GC has been ordered
April 24, 2007 : Welcome Notice Rvcd. Yeeehaaa!!!!
June 1, 2007: GC arrived! Yippy! USCIS Free for 2 years!
2008: Moved to China
2009: Conditional GC Expired and Husband has been having affairs since 2008 in China. Can't file for ROC since he got laid off. He came to Jakarta to live with me and my parents. He got a new job. Life resume to normal or so I thought.
March 2010: Officially separated after yet more affairs exposed just a day after my birthday!

February 2011: Officially divorced.
June 18, 2011: He married the girl he had the last affair with.

August 2014: I am engaged with my real soulmate. Not an American.

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Indonesia
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Another Indonesian/English here. Would like to learn Chinese for 2 main reasons: that's my heritage and I would like to enter business world in which Chinese fluency will come in handy.

Me- Indonesia & hubby - US

married in Vancouver, Canada

USCIS-free for 10 years !

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I speak French, Guyanese Créole (which is a little different from the ones spoken in Haiti or in the French West Indies), some Spanish and some Italian. I can also speak and understand a little of the dialects spoken by Amerindian tribes in Guyana.

I would like to learn Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin?) because it is the language of the future! I don"t think I will ever succeed though.... :rolleyes:

How do you say "Nice to meet in" in Chinese? :unsure:

Nice to meet you...

Sometimes I think I know everything, and I regain consciousness. Seen it all, done it all, forgot most of it....

So much plenitude, yet so much emptiness

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The Journey, Part I: I-129F (K-3)

I 129F sent to Chicago 11/14/05

NOA1 12/14/05, received by snail mail 12/23/05

NOA2 01/17/06, received by snail mail 01/20/05

Received Packet "3" 02/17/06

Medicals done in Nairobi 03/22/06

VISA APPROVED in Nairobi 03/30/06

Husband arrives ni USA!

The Journey, Part II: EAD and AOS

EAD mailed to Chicago 05/17/06

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Australia
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I'm monolingual... I did French in highschool but it was so long ago that I can't remember a word and I was never 'fluent' (I never managed to learn enough to actually be useful in the first place!)

If I was going to learn another language it seems that Spanish would be the most useful, and I've seriously considered giving it a go more than once. I don't have a very good 'ear' for languages though so I've chickened out.

Karen - Melbourne, Australia/John - Florida, USA

- Proposal (20 August 2000) to marriage (19 December 2004) - 4 years, 3 months, 25 days (1,578 days)

STAGE 1 - Applying for K1 (15 September 2003) to K1 Approval (13 July 2004) - 9 months, 29 days (303 days)

STAGE 2A - Arriving in US (4 Nov 2004) to AOS Application (16 April 2005) - 5 months, 13 days (164 days)

STAGE 2B - Applying for AOS to GC Approval - 9 months, 4 days (279 days)

STAGE 3 - Lifting Conditions. Filing (19 Dec 2007) to Approval (December 11 2008)

STAGE 4 - CITIZENSHIP (filing under 5-year rule - residency start date on green card Jan 11th, 2006)

*N400 filed December 15, 2011

*Interview March 12, 2012

*Oath Ceremony March 23, 2012.

ALL DONE!!!!!!!!

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: South Korea
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I'm great with English... I said I speak two languages....but to qualify it, I speak Korean only a little....learning more all the time though...so if I were to learn another language, I would want to speak Korean a lot better. I would also like to learn Spanish because it's useful many places in the US

Shannon 명철

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Brazil
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i'd like to know portuguese :thumbs:

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Thailand
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Thai/English - used to know a bit of (quite broken) German, French and Japanese but that was long long time ago... and cant even understand now

want to learn Japanese - but my friends try to teach me spanish

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K-1 = 4 months

AOS = 5 months

I-751 = almost one year

I Love My Life With You

"A society is judged by how it treats its animals and elderly"

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I will eventually learn Amharic. Sucks not to be able to speak to all of Nani's family (especially her mom) w/o a translator in the middle. Likewise, Nani will eventually pick up some German. We hope that raising our soon to be born daughter tri-lingual will help both of us pick up a thing or two on the way as well.

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Ireland
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I took Spanish in High School(barely passed) but I wish they had offered Gaelic, or even sign language.

Ni neart go cur le cheile

"Togetherness is Strength"

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Russia
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My native tongues are Russian and Ukrainian. I speak fluent English (although sometimes make errors :P)< a bit French (studied at school), understand Polish. I'd love to learn Spanish, since I am moving to California, and improve Polish (I like it a lot. It has a lot in common with Rus and Ukr, but still quite different and peculiar). Portuguese would be fine too (dream to Visit Brazil). Once I tried to learn Finnish, because it was a period when I communicated with nice folks from Finland a lot, but it turned to be way too difficult for me (especially grammar)< but I still think it's very cool ;)

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