I-751 OCTOBER 2018

[Georgia16 2,858]

28 minutes ago, prok said:

Do one need to go back to Social Security Administration to update the SSN with the 10 year green card?

No

[Suze1 366]

If you want to change the maiden name on the SSA card and the driver's license, you will need to update your file at SSA first.

Whether you have to actually "GO IN" or do it some other way or not (say via mail or online) etc. is another matter.

We are close to DMV at home and close to SSA at work, so going in made sense for us.

 

If you are a CR-1-based immigrant and your visa and passport are in your maiden name, your conditional Green Card will be in the maiden name as well.

To change to the married name on the driver's license and social security card, you need to have it that way on the permanent green card (or some other legal name change document subsequent to getting the visa).

 

So, after I-751 approval with the married name on the green  card, that can be used at DMV and SSA.

 

If you are a K-1 visa holder, the sequence is slightly different, I think. AOS allows you to change it.

 

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[Georgia16 2,858]

6 minutes ago, Suze1 said:

If you want to change the maiden name on the SSA card and the driver's license, you will need to update your file at SSA first.

Whether you have to actually "GO IN" or do it some other way or not (say via mail or online) etc. is another matter.

We are close to DMV at home and close to SSA at work, so going in made sense for us.

 

If you are CR1 and your visa and passport are in your maiden name, your Conditional Green Card will be in the maiden name as well.

To change to the married name on the driver's license and social security card, you need to have it that way on the permanent green card.

So, after I-751 approval with the new married name on the green  card, that can be used at DMV and SSA.

 

If you are a K-1 visa holder, the sequence is slightly different, I think. AOS allows you to change it.

 

Yes for name change but not just for getting the 10 year card as he asked 

[prok 56]

2 minutes ago, Georgia16 said:

Yes for name change but not just for getting the 10 year card as he asked 

Got you, thanks 

[Suze1 366]

Well, to be more precise, you do not change the actual SSN = Social Security Number.

You keep the SSN; you merely change the NAME on the account, if that is what you seek to do. 

You generally rarely actually change the SSN, except in extreme cases. i.e. fraud, identity theft, witness protection, etc., by getting a new SSN.

If you have changed names, then you are best off changing it at SSA. 

But no, if you have no name change, then no need to do anything at SSA.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[Georgia16 2,858]

6 minutes ago, prok said:

Got you, thanks 

If you get citizenship however then you have to go to Ssn dmw and all that 

[Suze1 366]

SSA and DMV

 

Regarding "GOING IN"...

Not sure if you can change marital status, citizenship, etc. online at SSA, but it might be possible.

Not sure what can be done at the Oath Ceremony either (voting registration, etc.).

Not sure about DMV either.

Will find out in February/March.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[Brunno 11]

Hi Guys,

 

So We are still Waiting. It is X-mas and we hoped the 10 y card will be here. But it is not. And that is ok....:-)

Oct.`18 -  LIN filer,

Bio done July `19,

Update on old tracker "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken" last week,

New account or USCIS account still showing " BIO review completed in July `19 " 

 

We have been checking some numbers around ours and almost everyone has been approved or RFE was issued. With us: nothing. We don`t even get the email or txt updates from USCIS anymore. 

I cant think about what went wrong. If we should have filed differently. More documents or something else. But we have used the Lawyer to overlook our packet and he said everything was perfect.

Only one thing maybe : I am not big on Social media ( FB )..... my wife is.... and I have read that USCIS is checking social media very often to see if the couple is legit. But it may be a rumor. I have hear that they are also accessing the GPS locations for couples cell phones to see if cell phones are in the same location every night. But who knows?

We have nothing to worry about. We are happy and healthy!

Lets wait. Lets get ready for N 400.

 

So being said: We would like to wish to all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! And thank you for all the help here VJ...:-)))

 

Brunno...:-))

 

[Suze1 366]

28 minutes ago, Brunno said:

Lets wait. Lets get ready for N 400.

Consider filing the N-400 for citizenship as soon as you qualify.

We did, and still got the 10 year green card without any obvious delay, and are now scheduled for our citizenship interview.

 

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[Brunno 11]

37 minutes ago, Suze1 said:

Consider filing the N-400 for citizenship as soon as you qualify.

We did, and still got the 10 year green card without any obvious delay, and are now scheduled for our citizenship interview.

 

Hi Suze1,

 

The only 2 reasons we did not file yet are:

1) people started to get approved so early so we had the feeling we will get too

2) since we have a small baby we did not want to have a combo Interview to drag him with us for it

 

We will wait till January/ February `20 and we will see then.

Hopefully we will see our 10y GC soon.

 

Thank you and have a good day!

 

Brunno..:-)) 

[Suze1 366]

@Brunno...Sure thing. It is your decision, of course.

It is a real pain having to wait so long...we feel ya.

 

If you want our two cents - 

If those are your ONLY two reasons, then here is how they struck us:

 

#1 Seem to be getting close -> We felt the same, after watching each day what was happening at all the service centers. We decided to go ahead, put together a full set of documentary evidence, and applied for citizenship with ROC pending. Doing so worked out for us, as we mentioned. Your mileage could vary, of course, as said.

 

#2 Not wanting a combo interview -> We felt the same here too. But if USCIS feels they have to interview you, you can get that even if not a combo interview. And lots of people are not getting interviewed - us included - in spite of some hearing/sharing that there will likely be more ROC interviews going forward. 

 

Nobody really knows a priori what WILL happen with any reasonable application. (With an outrageously unqualifying package, we have a better idea, or at least we think we do....smile.)

There is a risk/chance, either way.

But if your I-751 application package was tight, then maybe believe in yourself and your package.

Or not.

Just our two cents.

 

Sorry for the long wait. 

 

Wishing you the best,

 

Suze1

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[YESWECANDOIT 40]

3 hours ago, Brunno said:

Hi Suze1,

 

The only 2 reasons we did not file yet are:

1) people started to get approved so early so we had the feeling we will get too

2) since we have a small baby we did not want to have a combo Interview to drag him with us for it

 

We will wait till January/ February `20 and we will see then.

Hopefully we will see our 10y GC soon.

 

Thank you and have a good day!

 

Brunno..:-)) 

We are doing exactly the same. Just waiting. The thing with filing the N400 is we all don't file to the same service center. Some services are faster than others.

So it's important to make sure that your local office is fast and not backlogged like our Seattle office. There are applicants who filed their i751 in 2016 and filed the n400 are still waiting til today for a combo interview. 

 

So I made my research and I'm going to wait for the California center to process my i751 and not get it stuck at the Seattle office if I file a n400. Because once you do it, your i751 won't be in the big center jurisdiction anymore and it takes forever for them to transfer it if your local office if it's  not the lucky and fastest one.

 

So all our cases are completely different based on our location and we should not do like someone else. 

 

Good luck to you guys and congratulations on the new baby! 

 

[Suze1 366]

We hear ya.

Texas was NOT moving at all, for a long time.

We wondered if it would ever move.

Again, we hear ya, and thought the same things.

Sometimes it is easy to predict the future based on the past. It is much harder, predicting it rightly. 

We each get to choose, and we each get to share our thoughts about the choice we made.

That is what makes forums like this one so helpful.

Forward and upward to all.

 

P.S. As far as we can tell....our I-751 was not transferred or adjudicated locally. It was processed at Lees Summit, MO, as far as we can tell.

So the speed of the local office regarding the I-751 did not seem to come into play, even after we applied for citizenship. So there is that.

Might it for others?...sure! WILL IT FOR EVERYONE...not so definite!

Edited December 24, 2019 by Suze1

[SunflowerSweet 1,321]

19 hours ago, Brunno said:

Hi Suze1,

 

The only 2 reasons we did not file yet are:

1) people started to get approved so early so we had the feeling we will get too

2) since we have a small baby we did not want to have a combo Interview to drag him with us for it

 

We will wait till January/ February `20 and we will see then.

Hopefully we will see our 10y GC soon.

 

Thank you and have a good day!

 

Brunno..:-)) 

Hey Brunno,

 

We are still in the exact same spot as you as well. My husband got his  original green card in the mail on Christmas Eve 3 years ago, so I was hoping to have the same holiday luck. Oh well.

 

I am a little worried about the social media thing, but if everything is on the up and up with your marriage, I wouldn’t be too worried. If they are checking phones and social media, they would have known by now that things aren’t really working with my marriage. We haven’t gotten any RFEs or calls for interviews though, so if we’ve been safe, you should too.

 

I hope so at least... I won’t be able to get a finalized divorce decree for at least another 4 months thanks to the process for divorce in Wisconsin. So if they send out an RFE anytime soon, we are kinda hosed. 
 

My working (and probably incorrect) theory is that they possibly hold some cases back in order to give themselves leeway and more control over average processing times. But who knows.

Edited December 25, 2019 by MorganandMichael

[brunochi2018 8]

On 12/21/2019 at 5:36 PM, prok said:

Wow!!!, thanks for sharing, I am also 14 months now, my case changed to Case was Updated to show Fingerprint we’re taken, and was wondering what this was. By the way I am October 2018 filer, Texas Service Center. I pray to have mine too as my end of the year gift, or Christmas gift.

Me too filled in October 2018 and Texas service center as well..Praying hard