Rio-N-Don

Hello all, we are in the final stages of getting my step children immigrated to the USA. we ran into a small problem during one of their interviews. My daughters birth certificate scan had cut off the bottom security bar code even though the original doc my wife had with her had it. The agent gave my daughter a 221.g and required us to go to the nSO and buy a new bc that would be shipped directly to the embassy. Mon addition to that once the embassy contacted us we were to resubmit the 221.g form and her passport but there was another check box labeled “direct submission” (see Reverification form”) I searched the state dept website hi and low for any reference to those two terms and I found nothing. LBC contacted us again today stating we had a document but not the passport to pick up. the only thing we can think of why they wouldn’t be sending us the visa /passport would be due to us not sending this additional form. Does anyone have any clue about this form and where to obtain a copy of it? please advise promptly if you have any valid info for this. sincerely Don

Revoked means it can't be used for travel. It doesn't mean it never existed and therefore your citizenship never existed. Lesson #1 - pay your taxes. Maybe I will get them a COC at some point, but it's $2300 that can be better spent elsewhere, like their plane tickets, setting them up for school. I keep all of the immigration documents that I've done for them, the wife and both kids, in soft and hard copies. IMHO is shouldn't even be required. If my wife goes over to the Philippines to prepare them, Medical and Interview while she is already a US citizen and they are her minor children, then that should be sufficient. Or how about adding it onto the ton of money I've already spent for them to do her paperwork, yet they can't add another document to the pile of papers they already create? I don't mind playing by the rules, and this is not my first time around the immigration merry-go-round, but i do get tired of being fleeced, and not for nickels and dimes, at every damn turn. Oh and did i mention with crappy service for the most part.

Not sure how the certificate of naturalization out weighs the passport as proof of citizenship. They wouldn't give the kids a US passport if they didn't qualify. The kids will always maintain a current passport and even if it expired the passport renewal process asks for your old passport number anyways so there will always be some proof.

Wife had her N-400 interview yesterday - approved. While there I mentioned I had requested the kids I-130 be expedited out of concern one of them may age out. The agent approved both of them for us by the end of the day. Big shout out to this lady.

Looking at the processing time for NE service center, I-130's are already on 12/26 and our filing date was 11/28-29. USCIS went down and I couldn't get the second child filed until the next morning. We should be getting acted up soon. Can't understand why it hasn't already happened since others are on later priority dates but it seems to be par for the course this time around. As I mentioned earlier my wife's N-400 priority date was 3/21 yet others are way past this date as well. Thanks for the suggestion about the I-864W that should help some.

thanks,

thanks, that seems to be the only option. It's just frustrating as hell when we pay boat loads of money for crappy service and others just waltz in across the border for free and get free transport to wherever they want to go, etc. play by the rules and get bent over.

She doesn't have 5 years, since she is married to a USC, only 3.6+ at current count. Waiting until then would risk putting my step son at age out risk, he is 16. Waiting on the I-130 seems to be the only option unfortunately. I don't really follow you on the N-600K as far as picking the field office to file under. Being that we're in Texas the website stipulates we are to file the forms to the Phoenix lockbox. We've been stuck at the Houston office for her N-400 way past when other 3/21 filers have already been completed; last look was 12/21 filers are being addressed. It was damn near impossible to get an I-551 stamp for her passport since her I-751 had expired and was in limbo due to her ongoing N-400 filing. Only congressional assistance and a miracle by some staffers part accomplished that. Otherwise no appointments available, yada yada yada. B-2 visa? can you enlighten me on that versus the I-130 already in progress? I mean once they get here with their I-130 process, we just march down to the local passport office and get them a US passport, if I understand correctly that the N-600 is nice to have but a passport works just as well. I take it the N-600 isn't required to obtain the passport, is this correct?

My wife will finally get her USC sometime around the end of the month or next month. Her interview is on the 29th. She has 2 minor children that we have active, but stalled, I-130's submitted since 11/2021. Once she gets her USC I would like to be able to get them their USC and bypass this whole I-130 process all together if possible. Can we take my wife's Naturalization certificate to the embassy in Manila and secure US passports for the kids? I'm loath to go the N-600 route after all the money we've already dumped into her visa journey and their I-130's, along with how long that limbo status will remain. The kids need to come here soon to get on with their schooling. Any guidance would be appreciated.

My wife has been waiting on her I-751 since 3/2020, and her N-400 since 3/2021. They combined her packages and stopped working on her I-751 pkg due to her filed N-400. This caused us a hell of a mess this past June when we discovered her green card had expired in the beginning of the month. USCIS had sent a 2nd I-797 letter stating she had a 24 month extension, which I took to mean it was a sequential extension from the original 18mos extension that expired in 12/2021 since we already knew they had stopped working on her I-751 pkg due to her N-400. Oh contraire!, that isn't the case. It's only a total of 24 mos. USCIS doesn't send out an additional notification (I-797) telling you there is an additional extension, nor do they tell you that you need to apply for an I-551 stamp in your passport. We were leaving to go on an international trip in July and that threw everything into complete chaos. Tried to do it the right way and just request the regular appt request (30 day reply) in lieu of the emergency (3 day reply). Tried the congressional route and only one really went to bat for us and at the 11th hour of the last possible workday before our departure were we able to get an appt for her I-551. The other two offices were completely worthless. One guy went above and beyond for us and both of us had came to the hard realization that she wasn't going to be able to join my two adult kids and myself on this trip. But miracles do happen. Now we just received her N-400 interview notification for the end of this month. Great News, and she is super excited to finally become an American. Once that is complete we need to address the N-600 submissions for her two minor children still in the Philippines. Can't believe they want $1120 each for this now. If she is a citizen that should be enough to get her kids US passports and bypass the whole I-130 process that we are waiting on for them. But probably not, that would be too damn logical. Seems like the govt only bends over backwards for those who cut the line and waltz on over the border while those of us who play by the rules have to wait and pay untold thousands of dollars. Very frustrating.