US Immigration from Myanmar

Hello, everyone. About 12 years ago, when I was 10, my parents were sponsored into the US by my uncle. I was then approved for a green card. Two or three years later, my parents left the country due to their parents' urgent medical conditions and brought us along with them. I never returned to the US for just under 8 years after that. Then, January of 2022, I came back via SFO airport and was held back for questioning. Over the 3 hour process, I was grilled on what I had been doing over the 8 years since I'd left, and had to pay a $585 fine to fill out and submit an I-193. They also put on my passport, "ARC OUT 8 years, ACH RES REQ's". A month or so after that, I went through the green card renewal process and got the renewed green card about 8 months later.

I am currently a software engineer working in Seattle. I have not been in so much as been in a traffic stop, and file my taxes fine every year.

In about 2 years and 6 months, my 5-year continuous residence will be up and I plan on applying for naturalization then. It is hard to find people with similar situations to me on the internet, and different sources say different things, ranging from

• Don't worry at all and submit, they don't care about your travel history past 5 years.
• Submit, but expect a lot of questions and a possible denial.
• Don't submit at all, they may look at your past travel history and decide you shouldn't even have gotten a renewal and may give you a notice to appear in court and deport you.

My questions to the knowledgeable people on this sub are:

• When submitting my naturalization, do they care about travel past 5 years?
• Will the stamp on my passport give me problems (should I put that in with my application)?
• Are they able to look up travel information from that time I was out of the country, and will that cause issues?
• Do I need to hire a lawyer when I start my naturalization proceedings?

Thank you very much in advance.

Trying to check on my fiance's visa application and it's giving me this error message. Has anyone seen this before or does anyone know what the issue is? All I can find is that it gives you that message when you type the case number wrong but I have quadruple checked this and it's not the issue.

Hi All,

I have been looking for any topic related to money transfer from local bank to US bank to my fiancee account.

I found some topics but not sure the information has been changed over the time or not.

Please help, Could anyone answer what I am wondering?

I know we can transfer money internationally with either Wise or some other service.

I want to know

a. Is there any concern upon receiving money to my fiancee account? (Could it be issue for AOS time?)

b. Is that she has to pay tax on it or not?

c. Is there any limit?

Thank you and looing forward to any help any information.

Hi All,

I would like to share about conditions and I would like to know your thoughts on it.

1. I had the interview on Oct 31st.
2. Since our relationship was 20 years ago with old photos, it went pretty well with the Consular.
3. She even told me like
4. "why your gf is worried, in the end it is always approved"
5. But there is one problem, due to my late registered Birth Certificate they need secondary evidence documents for my BC.
6. So they refused my visa with 221g. They told me send those required documents with passport.
7. She again said
8. "you are planning to travel on Dec, it will be ok she guessed if I provide the document in time"

but when I returned all the required documents, they replied me this

"Your application has been placed under administrative processing. The process could take several weeks to several months to complete. You may wish to retrieve your passport (without visa) from the consular section on Tuesday or Wednesday at 11.00 am. Please bring along a copy of this mail to access the consular section."

I understand the AP is black box, I have to wait. But I am having so many thoughts and wondering why they have to reply that email to get back my passport without visa.
One of the thing they asked for is "School records", I gave them

1. Matriculation Examination Pass Certificate
2. Bachelor Degree in our Country
3. Advanced Diploma from NCC Education from UK in our Country

is it because of those documents, are they taking more time to verify them?

Or anything what it could be?
I just want to hear from your guys to treat my mind ....

Thanks

Hello folks

please let me start this topic for November 2022 filers for I130 filing for my mom. My filing office is Texas SC. After I got notice, the processing time was 5 months, then 4 weeks then changed to 7 months now.