US Immigration from Russia

Hello everyone,

Here is my quick story. I became a citizen on March 18th, obtained my Naturalization Certificate + name change form. I applied to get a passport first, and received it precisely in 2 weeks after applying. Next step for me was updating of my SS record to get a new drivers license. I was very hesitant to send the originals of my documents to SSA, and my worst fear turn out to be true - they lost my documents. It has been 3.5 weeks since I applied for SS citizenship status/name change, and I haven't received anything from them, and neither had I seen any changes reflected in my SSA.gov online account. I finally talked to the person this morning, and they told me, that my documents were scanned almost 3 weeks ago, but SSA "forgot" to plug it in the system upon receiving, so it was done while I was on the line. They said I should receive my new SS card within two weeks, but when I asked about my documents, they said "oh, they were sent back to you on April 19th". Today is May 10th, and I obviously had not received anything. SSA clerk said I should inquire from the post office, but they cannot provide me with a tracking number "Just tell them the date when the documents were mailed". Obviously the lady at the post office looked at me like this O_O and said she cannot help me since I don't have a tracking number.

With that said - did anyone have to go through the NC renewal, and more importantly, if you were able to make SSA/USPS/whoever else lost the documents pay for it? The replacement fee is $550, and I am not looking forward to pay this amount. Plus they also lost my military ID (I chose to send that one over the original of my drivers license).

I recently became a US citizen and want to apply for a US passport for my 12 year old son.

I looks like this can be done without the need for a Citizenship Certificate (N600), by showing other citizenship evidence.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/citizenship-evidence.html

Under "U.S. Citizenship through Naturalization of a Parent" it says:

* Your parents' marriage certificate (if your parents were married when you legally entered the U.S. and before your 18th birthday

What do they mean by "when you legally entered the US"?

I was married to his mother when we entered on L-1/L-2 visas in 2012 and still married when we adjusted status to a Green Card in 2015.

We divorced in 2018. He has left the US once with his mother after the divorce, so the last time he legally (re-)entered the US we were not married.

So do they mean: the last time he entered the US after being abroad, which was 2019, in which case his parents were not married.

Or first time he ever entered the US which was in 2012? Or first time he entered the US on his Green Card, which was 2016.

Any help with this ambiguous requirement is much appreciated.

Sorry for posting this again, but no one was very helpful on my other posts. My I-129F was Approved on February 22nd and NVC still hasn't received anything. I've called uscis and nvc multiple times asking what's going on and they were never helpful. USCIS said to wait 90 days and if nvc still doesn't have it then they will submit a service ticket to California service center to ask about it. I'm afraid the service ticket will take a long time and by the time they find it, it'll be expired.

Can anyone give me advice please?

Hello everyone,

I filed I-130 for my mom last July. It got processed, sent to NVC, and we submitted DS-260 back in December. On January 6 the status in CEAC changed to "All required applicant documents have been received and approved". We've been expecting that she would eventually get an interview appointment scheduled, but then politics happened and now the US Embassy in Russia can't employ any Russian citizens, so they significantly reduced the services they provide. Now they only process immigration visas in life or death situations. So I'm in a bit of a loss on what to do next.

As far as I could gather, our options are:

1. Wait and see what happens. This is a bad option for us since we want to bring my younger sister in after my mom gets her green card. My sister is 17 now and waiting could mean that she would simply age out before my mom could move here and apply for her.

2. Get an immigration visa interview in a different country. I sent a message to DoS through the form online, asking if this is even possible, but haven't received any response yet. I'm not sure who else I could reach out to or is that even an option.

3. My mom still has a valid tourist visa, so we could try to have her fly here and apply for adjustment of status from here. I don't particularly like this option because there's a risk that she will be stopped on the border since she has a pending DS-260, and even if she is allowed to enter the country, we will likely have to start the whole process over, losing time again.

I would appreciate if anyone could share their thoughts on this situation, and let me know if you have any good suggestions on what to do here because I'm not sure how to proceed.

My fiancee is having to have surgery in a few weeks so I was wanting to go over to Russia and help her out with her recovery. Is it possible as American to enter Russia on my Tourist Visa through a another country? Or is it completely shut down to US citizens 100% at the border no matter what country you come from. Tried googling information and there is no real clear answer.

thank you