Danielb4643

3 minutes ago, love_my_wife said:

That is not a concern as you were still working for your American employer, right? Also, the point of concern is always whether you abandoned your GC status which you didn't. You haven't abandoned your LPR or green card status. Examples of abandoning your LPR status are living overseas for more than 6 months frequently, taking a job overseas, not maintaining your residence or ties (apartment, house, house mortgage payments if house is not fully paid, auto insurance payments etcetra) to the US while you are gone etcetra!

Ok great, I'm sure I'm fine - just getting closer and closer so my mind is running every scenario etc etc!

3 hours ago, CarlHamilton said:

I think the concern is she wasn't legally working since she didn't have an Australian work visa. 

Yes, this is my concern. As I was working in Oz, as a Brit with a GC, for an American family I traveled with there and back whom also paid me in USD in USA....!

I may be overthinking this BUT, any advice welcome

I have my N400 interview end of this month, in April I went to Australia to travel with a family I work for (I am a nanny). I told them I was traveling for 'pleasure' but while there I was paid to care for the children I'd travelled there with.

When / if I get asked in the interview my reason for visiting and I say I was working out there with an American family (10 days) will that be an issue? I was paid legally and pay taxes in 2019 of course, just wasn't sure whether I'm fixating too much on things that wont be an issue. 

Thank you!

On 3/30/2018 at 4:26 PM, CTgal18 said:

https://www.uscis.gov/files/form/attachments.pdf

 

The first two pages of the link above outlines everything that needs to be included while filing N-400. Just submit what documents apply to you and your situation. When you file online, it’ll ask you to upload specific documents based on your answers (for ex: if you say you’ve been arrested, it will ask you to upload court records).  Also, you don’t have to complete and submit the application in one sitting so you can go back to it if you’re missing a document at the moment. I believe once you start it, you have 30 days to submit. Otherwise you’ll have to start the application all over again. You pay at the end once you submit the application, so it’s not like you’ll be charged multiple times if you have to restart because you didn’t finish in 30 days. 

This is great thank you! So it appears it isn't nearly as exhaustive as previous petitions and document uploads are minimal - great!

On 3/30/2018 at 4:18 PM, G Walters said:

If you take a look at this link. It Should help answer your questions.  They are look at new info from when you applied for 10 year card to present.

 

http://www.visajourney.com/content/751guide

 

Thank you for this but I believe I'm a step past this, I've already removed conditions per the I-751and am now looking to become a citizen via N-400; thank you!

Good Afternoon, 

The time has come and I'm ready to submit docs for N400 - I have a fews asks and was hoping for some input

Supporting Docs - All the other applications have been accompanied by portfolios of information, paperwork, photos, tax returns etc etc.

I had a 2 year GC, we broke up before the end of the 2 year and now I have a 10 year GC which I've held for 3.5 years (total 5.5 years under a GC)

Could you please give me an idea of the supporting docs and N400 would possibly need?

Thank you!!

Daniel.

On 3/12/2018 at 4:45 PM, JoannaV said:

For your second question, can you tell us if you are applying based on 5 year residence or as a spouse after 3 years? I applied under the former qualification and so the supporting documentation was minimal.

If you have been part of any kind of club or organization that could be considered bad then that definitely makes the cut. Otherwise, it's rather subjective. Think of formal groups that have some kind of legal status as an organization? I don't think I listed any on my form, but then at the interview when they went through all the questions I said "well, I was part of Guiding in my youth" and I *think* she did write that down.

On 3/13/2018 at 1:09 AM, Going through said:

USCIS is looking more for political affiliations/groups with this question, along with certain alumni organizations (either from your home country or in the USA).   This info was directly from the IO during my interview.

 

Answer depends on whether you filed under the 3 year rule, or 5 year rule.

Thank you! I will be doing the 5 year rule - thank you again.

Good Afternoon, 

The time has come and I'm ready to submit docs for N400 - I have a fews asks and was hoping for some input

1. Clubs and organizations (VERY broad topic) - what would make the cut and what would NOT make the cut (Facebook groups I would assume NO)

2. Supporting Docs - All the other applications have been accompanied by portfolios of information, paperwork, photos, tax returns etc etc 

Could you please give me an idea of the supporting docs and N400 would possibly need?

Thank you all!

On 8/21/2017 at 5:11 AM, Going through said:

I applied under the 5-year rule...my interview is next month.  I've heard on these forums from others' experiences that even if you don't apply based on the marriage, sometimes the IO will still ask you basic questions regarding how you came about getting your GC in the first place..but they are more routine questions, nothing really prying or asking for documentation of a bonafide relationship.   I think it's just more of a matter of "seeing what you'll say" rather than delving into proof, since they'll already have your entire file infront of them during your interview, where mounds of evidence was already submitted prior.

Great - thank you!

On 8/20/2017 at 3:15 PM, Wuozopo said:

 

You have held a greencard five years. You do not need to prove anything about the legitimacy of your former marriage. Include nothing of the sort. No marriage certificate, no joint bank accounts, no joint leases. You are not gaining citizenship early (3 years) as a perk because of being married to a USC. You are simply qualifying for citizenship all by yourself because you have been a permanent resident for five years. 

 

All you have to do is answer any  biographical information asked for on the form  like marital status and info on current spouse and former spouses.

This is reassuring - thank you so much.

On 8/19/2017 at 9:23 AM, marcusa said:

for those 3-year-rule applicants, do they have to maintain the marriage alive during the 3 years before filing N400 ?

 

i know some folks got married to USC for green card purpose only, then jumped out of the marriage. 

 

This is a big concern when people like this file for citizenship. the officers will definitely have questions regarding to your marriage that failed and even doubt your motivation for green card. ...." fake marriage“ ！Reg flag of course !

 

Dont let the officer think you are cheating in the marriage and immigration.

I had an immigration lawyer help me build my file when I moved from 2 yr GC to 10 yr GC to prove the marriage was legitimate - do you think I would have to prove it all over again with new documentation or can I regurgitate my old proof and use the same?

Thanks!

21 minutes ago, aleful said:

you're looking at the wrong date,

 

the date starts counting since you became a resident, the date was on your 2 year GC where it says resident since

 

if the 10 year GC expires in 2025, you probably became a resident in 2015, right?

 

since you've divorced you have to wait 5 years to apply for citizenship since you became one, which would be in 2020

Thank you for your reply,

My 2 year GC states - resident since 7/27/12 expired 7/27/14

My 10 year GC states - resident since 7/27/12 expires 03/05/25

Good Afternoon VJ'ers.

It's been a while!

Long journey short, met American, fell in love, got married got 2 year GC, dissolved marriage few months before and applied for 10 year GC without her, approved, now I would like to look into citizenship.

Question - if date on 10 year GC states it expires 03/05/2025 and it states 'resident since 07/27/2017' - am I eligible to apply for Naturalization?

Thank you in advance, I think the answer is 'not yet' but I'd love some quick and easy feedback. Thank you!

I Have the affidavits from Friends and Family, and from them stating our living situation which is good. They said they would do anything they could to help me so this seems a little strange. It appears their tax person dissuaded her also.

I just don't know what to do...

We filed for divorce on March 20th and it will be Final Sept 20th, which means I will have to send off the I-751 without the divorce decree, my second issue!

To clarify, you have been a permanent resident since Aug 2012? And no tax return has been filed for you for either 2012 or 2013? Your ex-wife just filed single for 2012 and 2013.

Hi, thank you everyone. Permanent Resident since July 2012 (expires next month) Got my 1st job here in Feb 2013 and filed this year as Married filing separately for myself, and she hasn't done any 'Married' filings...

Hi everybody, thank you for the continued support!

I am gathering all my information to file solo for an I-751 and it appears my Ex-Wife filed her Tax Returns as 'single' for the time that we were together. I have asked her to amend the Filing Status to Married Filing Separately but she will not (her Dad will not let her), if this going to be a major concern for me?

I am not sure why she will not change, her whole Family and herself is very supportive of me staying and have written affidavits supporting the validity of the Marriage and the love we shared; I am just unsure of how this will look to an immigration official.

Any support and words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated. We do not have much supporting documentation in the way of co-mingling of finances because we were living with her parents whilst we were married to establish ourselves and build funds. We had a joint bank and CC but not much $ flowed through it.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thank you!

I think a notarized statement from her attesting to your genuine marriage and your issues might help, as well as other people have mentioned from others. If you can find communication between the two of your during that time talking about working on it, that might also help.

My husband and I live with my mother and we have tons of evidence over the past 9 months: joint bank and credit card accounts, him on the family's car insurance, cards and mail addressed to us both, pictures at family functions, etc. We have other stuff that wouldn't apply to you as well, but you get the idea.

(I also have a SAMs card and Gym membership- living the dream indeed!)

I can get statements from everybody necessary to help. I can't find anything from betwwen that time has we have both got new phones....

I am going to go to the back to obtain copies of the (now closed) joint account, we had a joint car insurance policy and she was the owner of my 1st car here as I couldn't 'own' until I had my GC so I have those doucments aswell, along with photos and xmas cards, many pictures.....

Hi all and thank you for your words, the roadside assistance was defintely a joke!

She is 100% being co-operative and wants me to stay as much as I do, one of the main reasons for our breakup was the trouble adjusting and she's happy to see me build and grow now. The 'still married route' is not the route I would like to go nor am going to go we have begun the divorce papers; and the 18months was to see if anything changed between us and our decsion, because it was a BIG decision to cut so short so soon.

It's the finance issue that bothers me mostly because we were so 'new' and living with parents whilst trying to sort ourselves out, she was still in college and I was looking for solid work, we just weren't in a position to be 100% independant.

Also wouldn't amending a tax return look suspicious to USCIS?

Roadside assistance is a new one to me.

I will let others comment.

(I just meant I'm building a life )

I don't have a solid reason to not return to the UK. I have solid reasons to stay here though, I work two jobs, I have a car and a medical plan and great friends, good credit score, roadside assistance and all those great things that show I have built a life here and would very much not want it to be cut short.

Thank you all.

Well we lived at her parents whilst we were getting our lives together as it all fell apart, we had a joint account but closed it and was in her name and we just got an additional card for me which we both pun into /shared. I had issues finding work so we have tax return for her that shows married filing singly, no utilities as living at parents, she didn't even change her last name.

However, we do have pictures of us together, marriage pictures, my Mother coming to USA to be there for our small Family wedding and I'm sure I can dig up some xmas cards that have both our names on....

So, if i go the 'non-lying' way, what do i say when they ask when the amrriage fell apart and how come it's taken so long to file for divroce, I feel like this is the question that is going to trip me up when the honest truth is 'we were both scared I would get deported and we didn't want that to happen'

Thank you again..

Hi-

I will spare you all the emotion and give you the facts. So I have moved to the USA in Nov 2011 and got married. I got my 2yr GC in July 2012 and we broke up in November 2012, a year after our marriage.

I say broke up because we didn't actually file a divorce for whatever reason (fear of deportation....etc) HOWEVER now it is getting to the stage where I have to remove conditions and we don't want to lie and say we are still happily married (even though still technically 'married').

So my biggest concern is how to proceed from here? Filing for divorce and petitioning solo is going to raise major questions as to why we took SO long to file divorce, do I tell them we broke up in 2012 but tried to make things work for 18 months before giving up officially...?

On the flip side if I state we were in a happy relationship up until the filed divorce aren't they going to want to see documentation of a life together that we just do not have......

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you everybody

Hi, thanks for your help, do I remove conditions before the divorce, after the divorce or 3 months prior to my 2yr GC expiring?

thank you

Danny

Thank you for your reply, although it seems very simple.... Does anybody have any experience in this..?

Is it really possible to do this?

Thank you all

Dan

Hi-

I will spare you all the emotion and give you the facts, this is an unthinkable situation for me. So I have moved to the USA and got married on K1- got my 2yr GC and now it appears we are getting divorced, what are my options?

I have moved here to begin a new life and feel like it's been cut way too short. Is there any possible way for me to stay in the US? I have a GC that expires 2014 (is this still valid after divorce?) however going forward, what options are open for me?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

it's been almost 9 months now... still nothing. contacted uscis, and the rep told me that my application is already outside the normal processing times so she did a service request and gave me a reference number... contacted a congressman too.... i hope i get it soon! crossing my fingers. am i the only november 2011 filer left waiting? last update was december 13th when i had my biometrics, my case got transferred to freakin CSC december 5th.

I filed in Oct and I'm still waiting. Biometrics Dec 14th