Please Help!!! Full Time Housewife Applying for Citizenship

[Noel194 53]

I have always heard that they require you to have filed taxes regardless of income or not... This demonstrates that you are a "tax paying" participant in the system and will probably continue to be as a citizen. They asked for our proof of filing as a condition of approval, I would be astonished if they. Accepted. Yours without this... IMO

You are correct. People are confusing the fact that US Citizens need not file a tax return if they have no income but a requirement of your greencard is that "File all income tax return" there is no * stating only if you have income. It is a good idea for anyone to file federal and state even if it is all 0.00. If you do not file the governemnt can file on your behalf and estimate taxes owed and who wants to be on the back side of that fighting. If you file 0.00 you are covered for the price of a first class stamp.

[NickD 202]

At our AOS, when done, asked a simple question, what's next? IO said you have to fill out that I-751 for removal of condtions, then for citizenship, the N-400. Wrote those down, next day, downloaded those forms and the instructions and read them. Wow, we have a lot of record keeping to do.

So what would happen if I didn't ask? Think the USCIS would give you a piece of paper and tell us what you are in for. 2-3-5 years later is to late.

[Noel194 53]

At our AOS, when done, asked a simple question, what's next? IO said you have to fill out that I-751 for removal of condtions, then for citizenship, the N-400. Wrote those down, next day, downloaded those forms and the instructions and read them. Wow, we have a lot of record keeping to do.

So what would happen if I didn't ask? Think the USCIS would give you a piece of paper and tell us what you are in for. 2-3-5 years later is to late.

The USCIS sent my wife a letter reminding her to remove conditions about 6 months prior to the expiration of her 2 year greencard.

[NickD 202]

The USCIS sent my wife a letter reminding her to remove conditions about 6 months prior to the expiration of her 2 year greencard.

That's nice, since you have to send in a hefty fee, spend at least a couple of weeks to compile all that evidence and fill out that form exactly the way they want you to do it. Only takes an officer about ten minutes at the most to review it. And can't even send you out a green card. If your application is not 100% they won't even send you out that one year extension notice.

Another pain in the butt when you have to carry your expired green card and that one year extension notice at the same time. Then try to explain that either to your employer or other governmental agencies. Then they let that expire so you have to make another 450 mile trip to your nearest field office to get an I-551 stamp in your current valid foreign passport book.

Then if your marriage does not work out, all kinds of loopholes in that I-751 to work around that. Does the USCIS protect the sponsoring US citizen? Heck no in the event of fraud, still stuck with that I-864.

Least they can do is to send you that reminder, must be something new.