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Two new additions to the Anton household. These two girls have yet to hack up anything.

We now have 4 cats in the house, plus, Homer The Beagle.

Carl the cat was sitting outside the bedroom, when all of a sudden he bolts towards the bedroom and starts to heave. I was able to chase him and remove him from the bedroom before he hacked up the hairball. This cat ran to the bedroom because it is carpeted. Made me want to strangle him!

I have confirmed that the naturalization date is not in the bottom of the passport. Moderators, please close this thread.

Naturalization date.

My father has suffered a stroke and can't talk. I'm trying to file for SS disability benefits for him but I can't find his naturalization certificate. USCIS told me to make an info pass to get a new certificate and that could take 20 days. Ah, bureaucracies. I was wondering if that date is in the numbers at the bottom of his passport. Does anyone know?

Received the 10-year card today in the mail.

Indeed, no need to translate things at the consulate level. Everything went smoothly and even our Consular Officer spoke impeccable Spanish.

We did have to translate some documents when we filed the I-485. Since I speak both English and Spanish, I translated the documents, and I enclosed a letter attesting to my fluency in Spanish. Our petition was approved with no RFE's nor an interview.

This is the second time that we travel abroad with the expired Green Card and the extension letter. There were no issues neither in Ecuador nor entering the U.S.

And when we arrived home, we saw the letter from USCIS. My wife was approved on 02/29. No updates to the website still.

Hi, we just put her home address and left it at that.

When we went through the process, as soon as I confirmed that the consulate had received her paper work, we just downloaded the package and filled everything out. We didn't wait for the package to arrive. We scheduled our interview and a month after that (while we waited for the interview) the package finally arrived. If you choose to wait, you can do that. We decided not to wait.

Our buddy, Homer The Beagle, was hanging with grandma and grandpa when all of a sudden he starts rubbing his neck and snout on the carpet. Unbeknownst to me, Homer The-Recently-Bathed Beagle was rubbing his neck and snout on the grandparents' cat vomit. Well, it was actually a hair ball, but that didn't stop Homer The-Now-Putrid-Smelling Beagle from rubbing and soaking up this pungent stench.

Homer The-Now-Twice-Bathed-In-One-Day Beagle was not happy.

One thing about Ecuatorianas is that they NEED to go home. I've sent Mrs. T-B. back more times than I've been back, chiefly because of my work commitments.

That may be true, but my wife hasn't been back without me. Whenever we leave the country, we leave together. If she wants to travel for leisure by herself, she better pay for it herself.

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Hopefully, you won't be called for an interview again.

Thanks for that.

Did you use the number from the biometrics notice? If you used the number from the NOA, you'll get an error message. Good luck!

Have any Vermont filers had problems with the receipt number when you try entering it in the USCIS page? It keeps giving us an error message saying that the number is incorrect. I'm sure everything is fine and the number will be updated once they start working on the case...

The wife and I just returned from Brazil and we had no problems with the extension letter. Entered through JFK Airport.

Thanks, TBone!

We just returned from our vacation in Brazil, it was lovely.

I was kind of nervous about my wife having her expired green card with the extension letter, but it was for naught, our entrance was very painless and uneventful. Our next trip abroad will be in March 2016, hopefully by then she'll have her 10 year card.

-Medical power of attorney

-Beneficiary in a will

These are really strong also.

As for the cards, like people have said, copies of the statements AND copies of the cards showing both your names, highlight the numbers so they can easily see them.

All is not lost.

Glad you two talked and she decided to work through the homesickness.

My friend, the only advice I can offer is to try to have some alone time with her... through video chat. I'm not a woman, but as a man whose legs swell up pretty bad on long-haul flights, I don't even want to imagine how uncomfortable a pregnant woman will be. It's just not practical for her to fly at this stage. I know that the time difference is huge, but perhaps try to leave the video feed open on a day that you're both off, or (highly unlikely unless one of you works midnights) try to sleep with the video feed. Me and my then-fiancée did it while she was in Ecuador, helped us feel closer.

It will be up to you to be the strong one in the relationship and convince her that it is a bad idea for her to travel. And if she absolutely insists on face time, then you try your very best to travel to Australia.

Best of luck, brother.

Honestly, I found out by asking other people in my portal and also by people chiming in and telling their stories on different threads.

It's country-specific. We had our K1 interview on a Monday, she had her visa in her hand on the following Wednesday.

Biometrics completed earlier today.

This is for my wife, she is the Ecuadorian citizen. She doesn't want to renounce her citizenship in Ecuador, unless she absolutly had to for US citizenship.

Is a Cédula an Ecuadorian ID?

Thanks for your reply!

Hey, sorry for the late reply. Yes, the Cédula is the Ecuadorian ID card, the Registro Civíl issues it.

She does not need to renounce her Ecuadorian citizenship in order to become a U.S. citizen.

However, if she were to get certain government jobs, she will have to renounce her Ecuadorian citizenship. This is of course after she becomes a U.S. citizen. Most of those jobs are for law enforcement and other intelligence positions. I know because a Colombian buddy of mine had to renounce his Colombian citizenship in order to work for the Air Marshals.

You'll keep your Ecuadorian citizenship if you become a U.S. citizen. And with that you also get the wonderful responsibilities of maintaining a valid Cédula, as you will need to show it whenever you leave Ecuador. Don't know if you can renounce your Ecua citizenship, pretty sure you can, just wouldn't know how to go about it. Might as well keep it, free entrance to Argentina and Brazil. As a U.S. citizen you'll need a visa for Brazil and pay a reciprocity fee for Argentina.

Also, if you're a woman and take your husband's last name, the Registro Civil will not recognize your name change, you will always have your maiden two last names. What we did is go to the Ecua Consulate and have them make a note of her being married to me on the passport. This will also need to be done at the Registro Civil in order to show married status over there in Ecuador.

Pain in the butt, if you ask me. Passport is good enough for me, but if we ever want to live in Ecuador (which is not out of the picture for retirement), we'll most likely have to do it for the Cédula.

Its true. I posted about a year or so ago, I wanted info regarding joint bank accounts from other members on which accounts would serve best for removal of conditions. We both wanted our own accounts so we would manage our money however we saw fit. That is the reason why.

Do you think people on here were helpful? They were practically accusing me of wanting to leave my wife. "Why do you want to do this? What is the real reason?"

Unbelievable.

I read the forums, if people can spin their own interpretations into my harmless question, it's scary to come here with a real problem and have all the "experts" jump at your throat.