US Immigration from China

Part 12, Question 19: "Did you EVER receive any type of military, paramilitary (a group of people who act like a military group but are not part of the official military), or weapon training?"

My wife went to university in China. All students attend a mandatory one month (school military training), which mostly involves calesthenics, marching, waking early, and making your bed with crisp corners. At the end of the month, each student fired one shot from a rifle. No one seemed to care if they hit anything.

In previous documents (eg. I-485), we've always answered "No" to military training questions, because she didn't really consider this military training at all. But .. it does have "military" in the name fo the program. We feel like it is better to answer "Yes" here, with explanation.

How likely is it that she runs into issues if she says "Yes" on the N-400, but previously said "No". I suspect it would be worse to reverse the scenario (say "Yes", then "No").

Thank you so much! Also, a huge thanks to a wonderful community that has supported us through this entire process!

Hey there,

I'm wondering if we need to resubmit the same evidence that we also included in our I-751 application for the online N-400 application, or if I only have to include new evidence? We bought a house so I'll include the closing papers, I'll include new bank statements, etc. but do I also have to resubmit all of the stuff from before? I included a lot of evidence the first time around.

On a whim I checked my wife's case status and it says "On June 12, 2022 we mailed your new card for your Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence, Receipt Number MSCXXXXXXXXXX, to the address you gave us."

I'm so confused. We didn't receive an approval notice, does this mean that our application was approved? Is it just another temporary card?

The previous status I saw when I checked a few weeks ago or so (maybe about a month ago at this point) was: Ready to be scheduled for appointment. That was the status since March of this year.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I need a stamp on my passport for employment reasons based on my pending I-751. Was supposed to get a call from an officer to schedule within 30 days, but instead, I got an email around the 30 day mark basically saying there's no appointment available in my field office, if anything opens up, they'll contact me if I'm still eligible. I've gotten stamps before, it was a fairly smooth process, I don't know what happened this time around and frankly I'm not really buying the whole "no appointment available" thing.

Has anyone experienced this? If so, any successful resolution?

Almost exactly 10 years ago I registered on this site to ask a question about my wife's green card application process. Now we're planning to bring her parents over to the US, but we're having some trouble collecting all the documents. My FIL was born at home prior to 1945, so there's essentially no record of his birth. To the best of his knowledge, he had already moved out of his parents' house before the hukou system was even introduced, and neither of his parents are still living. At the gongzheng chu, they said "bring us some documents and we'll notarize them," but he doesn't have any official documents saying he's the son of his parents. Has anyone run into this issue before? If so, what documents did you use instead of the "white book" birth certificate? Can he just get his shenfen zheng or hukou ben translated and notarized?