Background:
Married with a US citizen in December 2018
Received Green Card in November 2019
Filed I-751 (To Remove Condition of Marriage) in August 2021
Divorced and applied for bona fide marriage in August 2023
Condition Removed (Without Interview) in September 2024
Applying for N-400 Now:
Hello everyone, and thanks to whoever is going to take their time to read this and give me any suggestions. I am at the end of the application for the N-400 at the moment. I am applying as a general provision since I have had my green card for more than 5 years, so the thing gets a little bit tricky at the end when it asks me if I have ever been cited or in jail. Well, in August 2020, I was stopped by police because I was speeding. For them, I was going 20 mph over the limit. In North Carolina, that is considered reckless driving and is a Class 2 misdemeanor. I was not going 20 mph over the limit, and in fact, I was smart enough to hire a lawyer that followed me; the case for reckless driving was dismissed and reduced to a regular speeding ticket as the velocity was reduced to actually only 9 mph over the limit.
All this has been notified to USCIS in my application for the I-751, with the court paper of that case. I guess it was not an issue for the USCIS at all since they approved my I-751 without an interview (3 years to do that), even if my wife and I got divorced and I had to hire another immigration lawyer to ask for a bona fide marriage.
So I read on this forum that in general if you have a ticket, it is ok to file the application yourself without a lawyer, but if you committed a crime or a misdemeanor, it is suggested to hire a lawyer to follow the case just to be sure. Well, I feel I am kind of in the middle, and I am kind of scared since it would be my first time to file any immigration application by myself, and I do not want to this up right in the end. Do you think I should file myself? In that case, should I put in the application that is a regular speeding ticket and attach the court paper that says so?