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  1. Vickys_Mom
    When you request your father's birth certificate, send them a copy of the RFI. You obviously have an official need for the document. If your mother doesn't have the marriage certificate you contact the county they were married in. They will have it. In both cases you can show the deadline that USCIS gave you. It might speed things up. You can certainly ignore the RFI, but your naturalization petition will be rejected. Don't expect USCIS to do anything for you on this. It's on you to get things together and respond to the RFI. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  2. Vickys_Mom
    I think repercussions is the key point. It might be that no one notices. But most people who get a 221(g) aren't allowed to enter the U.S. (or get their visa) until the AP is resolved. It's going to hurt if someone decides you're trying to game the system and revokes your visa, especially if they decide your efforts were with malice and hand you a ban at the same time. In my opinion it's not worth the risk. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  3.    Vickys_Mom reacted to a post in a topic: Will I get RFE if tax transcripts are not scanned and uploaded as .pdf but submitted as .pdf?
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  6. Vickys_Mom
    You could go back to the United Kingdom and abandon the process. You have to decide if the pain of going through the divorce will turn you off entirely on the United States. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  8. Vickys_Mom
    It would not be a bad idea to give her a couple of the pay stubs for the new job especially if the amounts are larger. Embassies like to see you're doing better as you "add" to your family. Make sure the stubs have information in case they want to follow up with your new employer. (My pay stub includes my employer's address and phone number.) If you have some sort of job offer letter or contract, you could sent that too. If your income had decreased, then I'd be worried about the Affidavit. I'd leave it alone. Don't confuse the Embassy if you don't have to. If you haven't already, start thinking about health insurance for your mother in law. We had to go to the Marketplace since mine wasn't eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, and neither one of our employers recognize her as a dependent. That extra $1,000 per month is tough on a budget, though better than a sudden ER visit or hospital stay without it. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  9. Vickys_Mom
    They print this out and take it with them. If an actual physically printed letter shows up between now and then, they don't need the email. It'd be nice if there was a mailed letter, but don't let them miss the appointment waiting for one. Not showing up for an appointment will shut the application down. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  10. Vickys_Mom
    You're starting in a hole: https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-b-chapter-7 A noncitizen admitted as a nonimmigrant without a visa under a Visa Waiver Program is barred from adjustment of status. But keep reading. I'm sure there are examples here of people who have worked around this. And you want to remember that "...we don't want to be separated again..." isn't a valid excuse to bypass the rules. There are a *lot* of people here who are separated from their loved ones. It's the mechanism in place. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  11. Vickys_Mom
    Start it now. Get the clock going. She can be honest when she enters. She's here to see her husband, y'all have started the paperwork, it's an IR-1 so it will take a while to process, and she plans to return after her visit. Make sure she has her return paperwork. You guys are married. CBP knows that already from your past efforts. Any time she enters the U.S., CBP will assume she intends to stay. She'll have to convince them she won't. It sounds like she's been fine so far visiting while being married to you. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  12. Vickys_Mom
    Mine was probably overkill, but you are correct. We got through it smoothly. If they had asked for anything, back to our marriage license, I had it. There's a theory of compliance with USCIS. They have all of that stuff online, and they don't need to see your printed copies, but bringing in a 2-inch binder all indexed and ready to go shows them that you 1) read the instructions and 2) actually care about what was said. You are correct. Once they see the compliance, it's all softball questions and let's-get-you-on-your-way. They got a lot of case files on their desk. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  14. Vickys_Mom
    If you had it, attach it. I know you can get the I-94 records online, and perhaps look hers up and print it out since it'll have the dates she left and came back. It does not sound like her residency was affected. I'm at an extreme. By the time my wife did her N-400 I had a two-inch binder of evidence I brought with us to each appointment. No one needs 2 inches of evidence. I think they looked at our Vegas wedding pictures to make sure Elvis didn't do the ceremony. But we could have done the separate-interview-compare-the-notes (I can't remember what they call that) if we had to. We had practiced. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  15.    Dashinka reacted to a post in a topic: Asylum and Marriage
  16. Vickys_Mom
    I can't answer the first part. I married my first wife in the U.S. in May of 2000. My divorce was finalized in the U.S. in March of 2004. (She was already back in Russia and to my knowledge never entered the country again.) Even though I sent them a copy, INS/CIS (that's how long ago this was) still sat on the form another four years before sending me a note that my application was cancelled because we were no longer married. I married my second wife in April of 2011. She got her naturalization in October of 2014. The only time my first wife came up during my second wife's paperwork was for me to prove that my marriage had been properly ended by divorce. I still had a copy of my first marriage license and I submitted both it and the divorce decree. If it was five days after you divorced the first wife, they might scrutinize it. It sounds like your first marriage was terminated properly and you're not just marrying people for green cards. I think you're okay. Again, I can't speak to the first part. Regards, Vicky's Mom
  17. Vickys_Mom
    Yes to one, No to two. If the ticket was received and paid, she pled guilty to speeding. If she was never in custody, the second doesn't apply. A good rule of thumb...if she wore handcuffs, even briefly, she was detained and it will show up if someone looks at the report. A speeding ticket is generally not a criminal charge, it's a civil offense. If you pay it, you're done. Attach information about the traffic ticket. Prove it was paid. Consider pulling a driver's record proving it was paid (or at least no one has a bench warrant out for her arrest). $500 seems like a lot so make sure it doesn't include anything like reckless driving that *would* constitute a misdemeanor. I'm still not going to post the attorney's firm that did the research, but search "N-400 speeding ticket" and you'll find it. *Do Not* skip it. You've gotten this far, and you almost have the naturalization certificate in your hand. Don't drop the ball before you score. I have no advice about the child support question. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  20. Vickys_Mom
    If it's a pure speeding ticket you should be able to answer that question "no". *Make sure* it was just a speeding ticket and that's how it was recorded. Your state should be able to provide a copy of your record including any traffic offenses. Either way you should report it. USCIS can pull your driving record. I searched "N-400 speeding ticket" and found a law firm that wrote an opinion that you should answer Yes to Part 9, Item Number 16, and disclose it there. If you do that, include all the documentation you have on the issue including proof that you paid the fine and that it's "resolved" as far as the police are concerned. Don't decide *not* to report it...it's a stupid reason to fail your N-400 interview. As long as there was no additional charge like "reckless driving", a speeding ticket is a civil offense and is not criminal. You "plead guilty" and you paid your fine. I won't link the law firm here, but you can find it yourself with a Google search. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  23. Vickys_Mom
    My mother-in-law is from Indonesia. We submitted scans of her documents with the initial application, but when she went to her IR-5 interview in Jakarta last year they asked to see the originals of her birth certificate, the "name change" document that the government required back in the 1960s, and her marriage certificate with her husband (deceased 10 years). Her original documents are fragile and she's very careful with how she stores them. To my knowledge, there's no way to replace them. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  25. Vickys_Mom
    You can declare the $2,000 as Other Income and pay taxes on it, assuming there are any. Note that it's not Other Earned Income, but the Other Income that appears on Schedule 1. I think $33,000 is still too close to $31,075 so you should still find a joint sponsor. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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  27. Vickys_Mom
    I couldn't find any parking instructions on the Consulate's web site, but another tenant in the building indicated there's a three-story parking garage right next to it. https://norriscenters.com/houston-westchase-map/ What it will cost, I do not know. Regards, Vicky's Mom
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