yogib37

Unless you spoke with an actual immigration officer, the likelihood of the person at the infopass appointment knowing what they're talking about is slim. Immigration law is complicated, and IO's study for a long time to become proficient in both the law and DHS policies. The customer service people they hire are given a crash course in what USCIS does and how they do it. The only worse source of information (or lack thereof) is their 800 number. Sometimes, if you jump up and down and throw a tantrum, they'll bring an actual IO to the window to speak with you.

Even if you spoke with an IO, you often have to guide them along in order to get the information you want. They see a quick snapshot of your life on their computer screen. If they looked at your son's file then the first thing they'd notice is that his conditional green card expired and he didn't file to remove conditions.

yes that is true. We did file but it was the wrong form, we have 87 days to file the correct form and submit the correct fee. I will still try to get it back, it just cant hurt.

Ok, you petitioned for him separately. If you were married less than two years when he got his green card then it would have been conditional for two years, and yes - he'd have to remove conditions separately. That doesn't change the fact that the kid should have become a US citizen when your wife became a US citizen. He's in the US, he's under 18, and he's in the custody of a (biological) US citizen parent. Bang! Automatic US citizenship.

USCIS is screwing up here. Hire an attorney and focus on getting the kid's citizenship recognized.

You're not going to get your money back. USCIS doesn't make refunds. They'll return the check if they reject a petition, but if they accept the petition and deny it then you got what you paid for - the petition was adjudicated.

Thanks for your information

I talked to my wife and I am going to consult a lawyer which is what I wanted to do first. I have feeling they are wrong and the people at the infopass how do I know they know what they are talking about.

This doesn't make any sense at all. Why does the kid have a conditional green card? If it expired on February 27,2011, then it would have been issued in February of 2009. That was three years after you and your wife were married.

How old is the kid? If he's under 18 then he should have become a US citizen when your wife did.

Yes I was quite upset when I came back from the Infopass appointment. I just thought maybe they just want more money. Since he was petition on a differnt form 'in their words' he has to be removed on his own. they when he gets his Perm card, he can become a USC.

I also thought he should get it also. Yes he is under 18. He is 13 years old.

Even at the swearing in the guy who was giving it said if you have a child under 18 they will become USC along with you.

Thanks

Yogi

Doubt you will get the money back, they do not refund. It was your mistake not USCIS's mistake.

Hope you can get his ROC with the expired card and they don't give you problems.

Yes I hope so also, It is $980 that we will be out of.

If the Government made a mistake and under charged you for something I am sure they would want their money even if it was their mistake.

I hope things will work out. IF they dont refund I will seek my congressman and senators to try to get it back.

here is the scope. My wife became a USC. I thought that her son would automanticly become a USC also. We got a letter from USCIS and they told us that his green card was going to expired on Feb 27 2011. Thinking he is a USC we made a Infopass. we went to the appointment and they said since I did not have him on his mothers green card Or I-485 he will have to have his conditions removed. I filed him on a differnt one because My wife got her Green card before he enter the USA. She went back home to get him. Fast forward, I filled out the forms I filled out the I485. yesterday they sent it back with the Forms I-751. and the I-864 support form. I did not see the check I called and they said he needed to file the I-751 not the I485. Opps my screw up. So they told me to mail and with drawl the petition. how likely is it that I will get my money back?

I will with drawl because the wrong form was used.

I would like to have my money back.

any suggestions?

Yogi

Delta did refund 100% of the purchase price plus the change ticket fee but it required alot of effort on my part. Delta said that I checked the box agreeing to this but I dont remember it.

She just landed in Honolulu leaving in another hour or so for Houston. I'll see her in 13 more hours.

I am happy things worked out for you. Today you should have your lady with you. It was a long trip she will be tired. I just want to tell you I hate Delta and I will not fly them anymore. Last time i was on Delta, my seat belt broke I just tugged it and the flight attendent was a snotty old maid who thought she could fix it. Mind you I have 10 years of Aircraft maintenance exp. and I told her, it needed to be replace.

I am happy for you

Yogi

Aww, Thanks.

WOW!!! Reinhard, now she is very beatiful. Oh gosh Wow.

you better keep a shotgun handy LOL

Yogi

Every World cup I root Germany. They are my favorite team. Even I am American I root for Germany. I did root for USA but still my team is Germany.

Yes that was a great game and I am happy to see 'the hand of GOD' and team pack up and go home.

I just hope they will win it.

Almost 5 years of crossing the US borders with little hassle, yesterday was my first bad experience at the border in Vancouver Via Rail Station (I was boarding Amtrak to Seattle.) The first border guard recognized me as she processed me last time and referred me to another border guard for questioning. Here's how the conversation went:

Border Guard: Where are you going?

Me: Seattle

Guard: How long will you be staying?

Me: Three days. I'm returning on Monday.

Guard: What do you do for work?

Me: XXXX, at XXXX.

Guard: Do you have a business card?

Me: Yes (gives him my business card)

Guard: What's the reason for your visit?

Me: Visiting my husband, who is a US citizen.

Guard: How long have you've been married?

Me: Three years come this August.

Guard: Are you planning to move to the US?

Me: Yes. I have a visa case in process.

Guard: Do you know that while your case is processing, you must remain in Canada or if you are in the US, you cannot leave until it's completed?

Me: No, I'm not aware of such restrictions. Just to clarify, I've applied for the CR-1 Visa.

Guard, starting to get irritated: It doesn't matter what visa it is, you cannot enter the US until the process is completed.

Me: I'm not understanding what you mean by process being completed. I already had the interview with US Embassy in Montreal and they are holding back from issuing the visa because I am not ready immigrate (due to my pregnancy) so technically, I have not been approved nor issued a visa. They told me when I am ready to immigrate after my baby's birth, I'm to send them my passport for visa issuance. As of now, I don't have a visa to immigrate.

Guard: If your husband had file a petition for you, you cannot enter the US. What is your NVC #?

Me: I don't have that information on me. If it's OK with you, I can call my husband to get that information.

Guard: I'm going to look in our system to see if you have a file with Immigration. (Looks up in his computer with my name, didn't find what he was looking for, so asks for hubby's name and phone number. At this point, I'm getting upset because it sounds like I'm about to be turn away from the border.)

Guard: You're lucky this time--there's no file of any petition on the system. (I'm thinking #######?!)

Guard: Do you have a Nexus card?

Me: Yes

Guard: May I see it. (I give him my Nexus card.)

Guard: (Looks over at the card) I see you had this card since September 2009.

Me: I'm sure I've had it much longer than that.

Guard: Is this your second card?

Me: No, it's my first. I believe it renews every 5 years.

Guard: Yes. So if this is your second card, you must have had your Nexus card since 2004.

Me: No, I didn't. I've had it for about 2-3 years I think.

Guard: Don't lie to me!

Me: No, I'm not. I don't recall the exact date I got it, but I know I didn't just get it last year. This card was re-issued because they've made security improvements to the Nexus cards and reissued new ones to all Nexus card holders. So that card was issued in Sept 2009, but I've had it before that.

Guard: What was the reason why you applied for the Nexus card?

Me: I was crossing the border regularly so I applied for it.

Guard: What reason did you give your Nexus Officer for getting thhe Nexus card?

Me: I don't recall being asked that question during the interview. I applied for it online, was approved, called in for the interview, which was a discussion on its terms and use, got the card and that was it.

Guard: I worked at the Nexus Office--I KNOW we ask you why you apply for it!

Me: (#######?!) It's been about 2-3 years since that interview. I don't remember if they had asked me that question.

Guard: We always ask the reason for applying for it.

Me: (Visibly upset ut still calm) If they had asked me that question, I would have said something like I'm visiting my boyfriend or something. But I'm telling you I was not asked that question.

Guard: Don't lie to me! I used to work at the Nexus Office. (looks up the computer some more.) OK, I see it was issued in May 2008. Hmmm...there's no notes.

Guard: You were married then, why did you tell them that you were visiting you boyfriend?

Me: (#######?! That was a rhetorical answer!) Sir, it's been quite some time since the (Nexus) interview and I'm not good with remembering dates. I don't remember what my responses at the interview were.

Guard: I'm going to contact the Nexus Officer who interviewed you, and if I find that you are lying, we will confiscate your Nexus card and you will not be allowed to enter the US.

(By now, they closed the gate, the train personel were waiting for me, and I was the last one at the US customs border.)

Me: (About to cry) So what's the next step? Am I allowed to enter the US now or not?

Guard: (hands me back my Nexus card and passport) This time I'll let you in but I'll be checking in with your Nexus Officer.

Me: Thanks.

#######?! I called hubby right after and bawled my eyes out. The guard called me a liar three times and made me feel like an illegal alien!...and a 6-month pregnant terrorist! Hubby was SOOO pissed, thinks that the Guard was just power tripping and wanted to call US Customs to complain. I told him let's not make the situation any worse.

VJers, what's your analysis of this exchange?

yes I agree with your Husband, he is power tripping, Give someone a badge and they think they are so much high and mighty

Just be cool about it and when you give birth then you can come here and not worry.

Yogi

It must have been a very fulfilling life.

"Eternal repose grant to him, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen."

Yes it must of been. Just think of the United States History that great american saw in his lifetime. May he rest is peace

Aww that is too awesome. She is a very cute girl. She is a happy girl. Congrats. I reconized that airport. where my wife came into and my step son, on their port of entry. I am from the north bay? where are you located?

Take care

and Congrats and have a happy family

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry Truman through Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 90.

Allen died of renal failure Wednesday at a hospital in Takoma Park, Md., The Washington Post reported Friday.

Allen, who was black, started at the White House in 1952, when racial segregation prohibited him from using public restrooms in his native state of Virginia. When he left the White House in 1986 after 34 years, he had witnessed not only defining moments in the country's history, but also in America's civil rights movement.

And on Jan. 20, 2009, he watched Barack Obama being sworn in as the nation's first black president.

"I never would have believed it," Allen told the Post from his seat at the inauguration. "In the 1940s and 1950s, there were so many things in America you just couldn't do. You wouldn't even dream that you could dream of a moment like this."

Allen began washing dishes and stocking cabinets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. before rising to maitre d' during Reagan's presidency.

He crossed paths with entertainers including Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington and Elvis Presley. He met Martin Luther King Jr., traveled to Romania with President Richard Nixon, and had a seat at the table as a guest at one of Reagan's state dinners.

Although first lady Jacqueline Kennedy invited him to President John F. Kennedy's funeral, Allen volunteered to stay at the White House to help with the meal after the service. She gave him one of the president's ties, which Allen framed.

Born July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Va., Allen shared the same birthday as President Gerald Ford and joined in Ford's birthday parties at the White House.

Allen lived in Washington. His wife of 65 years, Helene, died in 2008. He is survived by his son Charles, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

You know this girl was a Obama the Socialist lover.

Come on. we all know you do not like Obama but get real. I am tried of every one of your posts has something negative about our pres. You need to respect the man.

I hated Bush with all my heart but I still respected him as my Pres. we are not Socialist. Remember Bush F'ed this country up so bad, I think anyone following him into office would of had a hard time.

By Gordon Lubold Gordon Lubold – Tue Mar 30, 8:09 pm ET

Washington – A father of a Marine killed in Iraq says he won't pay the legal fees of a protest group who picketed at his son's funeral in 2006 – at least not until he hears from the US Supreme Court on the matter.

Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in Iraq, learned Friday that a federal appeals court is requiring him to pay more than $16,000 in legal fees to the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message. The group rallied at Matthew Snyder’s funeral in March 2006 in Westminster, Md., chanting antigay slogans and carrying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” says Albert Snyder’s attorney, Sean Summers.

The group was protesting about 30 feet from the church’s main entrance, and Mr. Snyder had to enter through a separate entrance, Mr. Summers says.

Snyder subsequently sued the Westboro group for emotional distress and won a $5 million judgment. But on appeal, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, finding in favor of protecting the protesters' free-speech rights. About three weeks ago, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case and is expected to hear it in the fall. (Last year, the high court had declined to take up the issue.) Meanwhile, the circuit court has ordered Snyder, a salesman, to pay the church’s court expenses.

Snyder, of York, Pa., told Fox News on Tuesday that he would not pay the Westboro Baptist Church "until I hear from the Supreme Court."

“It’s fair to say that they are not getting any Christmas cards from Mr. Snyder,” adds Summers, in a phone interview. “He obviously thinks they are despicable and doesn’t understand why they would target him.”

The Westboro group has been protesting at military members’ funerals for years. The church leader, Fred Phelps, preaches that American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality. (He was among those banned from Britain last year for fostering hatred or extremism.) The protests have nothing to do with the fallen service members' sexual orientation, and the church says its protests are held within a “lawful distance” of the funerals.

Ultimately, say some, the church protests are a matter of constitutionally protected free speech.

“I really don’t see that [the protest] was a violation of the First Amendment [principles]. It was a violation of decorum and good taste and all sorts of other things, but not a violation of the First Amendment,” says Charles Gittins, a civilian lawyer in Virginia.

But Summers argues that his client’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of religion were infringed by the protests and that, unlike at a public park where people are free to express themselves, a funeral setting draws a “captive audience” that requires attendees to be in a particular location – they can’t simply walk away.

Westboro Baptist Church, which is based in Kansas, plans to protest in Florida on Wednesday, outside a funeral for a Marine killed in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on March 22.

“Military funerals have become pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy, where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool,” states a press release posted on the church’s website, announcing the rally at a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Justin Wilson. At the bottom of the press release are printed the words “Thank God for IEDs,” referring to the roadside bombs that have killed thousands of troops in both wars.

Where's the right to life in all this, though? Why can't the conservative movement care as much about the born as they seem to care about the unborn?

it is the conservatives being hypocrites again. Just like in the Health care bill.

Are you aware of just how difficult it is for a pretty young female from the Philippines to get a Visitors Visa? You'll have to demonstrate that you have very strong reasons to return to the Philippines such as a very good job, owning land & businesses etc. Having a USC boyfriend/fiancé will actually work against you as it is a compelling reason for you to overstay or try to marry him and adjust status without returning to the Philippines.

You'd be better of just applying for the K-1 after he returns to the US.

Yes that is 100% true. Try to get the k-1 route. If he wants to come back maybe you can marry there. but if you go K-1 who knows, maybe god be on your side and you will have it by winter.

Good luck

Yogi

I think it is very nice. she lived in 3 differnt centurys what a lot of history she seen in her life time. how many differnt Presendents she seen.. It is very cool and very rare

WESTMORELAND, N.H. – Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.

She died Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.

"She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all," Katherine Ray said. "She was planning for her birthday party."

Even with her recent decline, Ray managed an interview with a reporter last week, her granddaughter said.

Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group. She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.

The oldest living American is now Neva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days. The oldest person in the world is Japan's Kama Chinen at age 114 years, 301 days.

Ray was born May 17, 1895, in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She moved to the United States at age 3.

She lived for 60 years in Anson, Maine. She lived in Florida, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New Hampshire before she moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children.

Ray's husband, Walter, died in 1967. Survivors include two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.

Morris, the Iowa woman now believed to be the oldest U.S. resident, lives at a care center. Only one of her four children, a son in Sioux City, is still alive.

"She has some hearing deficiencies and a visual deficiency, but mentally she is quite alert and will respond when she feels like it and isn't too tired," said her 90-year-old son-in-law Tom Wickersham, who lives the same care center.

Wickersham said he visits his mother-in-law — who plays bingo and enjoys singing "You Are My Sunshine" — nearly every day.

"You can put aside any of those typical mother-in-law jokes," Wickersham said. "When I visit her, I spend probably at least a half an hour with her on a daily basis that involves as much conversation as you'd share, the usual things, the weather."

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Associated Press writer Nigel Duara in Iowa City contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oldest_american

Very stupid laws and law officers.

yes it is stuipd law. Texas has some old 'blue' laws that are stuipd also

It isn't even a real HMMWV. It's just a re-branded GM SUV.

AKA A YUKON. has the same chasis

Man, I was saving for a Hummer. Bummer.

You will have to fill up at every Gas station you pass by

Capt EWOK,

Lt. Yogi will be willing to help out

Hey everyone,

I am currently in Pakistan with my husband who just got his visa issued last week *yay*- today i found out that I am pregnant- good news, unplanned but its ok... it just doesnt fit in with my plan though of returning to the US and getting back to work. I had an offer from my previous job upon my return but its near impossible for me because the commute alone is 4 hours daily and it is extremely demanding and seeing that I am pregnant now- I know I can not do that commute again. I am planning on returning to the States next month but I am really confused about what I should do with insurance since I have none anymore. I know its going to take a while for my husband to settle down and find a job so I am not counting on that either. I heard I can apply for Medicad but does it affect my husband's immigration status?

Any suggestions are welcomed! Thanks!

why you have a 2 hour one way commute? could you not move closer to your job.

I do not know everything just asking

Don't forget his glass of voka

:thumbs:

He drinks scotch, not vodka.

You just can't fix stupid....

was this a shot at me?

Ron White is a funny man with a big cigar

Don't forget his glass of voka

:thumbs: