Jessica Donahue

I would look for local stores, or online, to find some staple foods that he's used to, and which might not be available in your local grocery.  Finding restaurants can also be a nice adventure, depending on where he's from. Food is a huge comfort when your partner is feeling homesick, he can keep it in the pantry for a special day. 
 
Also, check your local library's website for their online resources.  Many have Gale courses (which have quite a range of online courses), professionalization resources and language resources (duolingo, rosetta stone, mango).  Also, they might have Kanopy, which is an amazing streaming site with films and documentaries from around the world.  Later, if he decides to naturalize, many have Procitizen or other resources to prepare for the civics and language test.
 
My wife became a big fan of podcasts, so you can look around and see which ones might interest him, they're great especially if his first language isn't English, but also to get a feel for the dynamics of this country.
 
Good luck with everything!

tendría que enviar las devoluciones y la documentación de respaldo como w2.
Si busca en los foros encontrará más información de lo que hicieron otras personas, aunque estará en inglés.

Congrats to all of you guys !

We applied online and everything was done via the San Diego office.  
 
Interview was 6/24/2019.  We received "Oath Ceremony Scheduled" notice on 6/26/2019.  Oath Ceremony is 7/10/2019.  Looking forward to it!

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My wife was approved at her interview on 6/5. It was short and the officer was friendly, at the San Diego office. She was waiting for an hour and the interview was about 20 minutes long.
 
They asked her:
1. Which state has the most people
2. Who is the father of our country
3. Which movement tried to abolish racism
4. What is the Emancipation Proclamation
5. What is an amendment
6. Who signs bills into laws
 
 
Now we're just waiting for a date for her oath ceremony 

Had my oath on Wednesday . Super special day. We were about 1200 applicants.
Good luck to everyone who's still in the process...
 

Had my Oath Ceremony today in Fairfax, Va.. Words cannot express how special it was. 
 
Got there at 1pm - ceremony was scheduled for 130pm - we all waited in a room for about 15min until we were asked to line up and have in our hands the letter filled out and green card. We returned those and proceeded to a different room on the 2nd floor at USCIS. We got packages with papers to apply for a passport, to register to vote, a flag and some more documents and in the end we were given the certificate of naturalization. 
The moment after we said the oath was very emotional and cheerful. One of the best days of my life. Now onto having my passport done! 
Ceremony was done by 3pm - there were about 60 new citizens. 
 
Good luck to everyone else who is still in the process! Enjoy this last step because it is indeed an honor! 

Got the letter too: 
Ceremony is on June 19 at 8:00am.

I entered into a bonafide marriage with a foreign national, we moved to the US past the minimum 2-year mark. The request for his green card took a long time and we had a lot of troubles. Last year, we separated but continued to try to make things work out. He was called for his permanent visa interview and we went together because we still wanted to work things out - or so he claimed. 
 
The very next month, he receives his permanent green card in the mail, and just a week later he decides he no longer wants to work on the marriage.
 
Fast forward another month, he proposes a legal separation. I agree to it because it wasn't yet divorce and I thought we still had a chance to work it out. 
 
Six months later, he requests a divorce. And I have reasons to suspect there has been someone on the side since around the time of our green card interview.
 
What can I do to divorce but rightfully request his green card be revoked in the process?
 
The marriage entered into was bonafide, but the last year has been murky and I feel defrauded into attending the green card interview while already separated (under the guise that him being a legal resident would save our marriage). 

As the saying goes, living well is the best revenge. Knowing that it drives my ex-husband crazy that I am very happy in my new relationship and on my way to remarrying feels great! As was said above, divorce and move on. You never know what is waiting for you on the other side. 😊

Divorce and move on. The Greencard is his business now and no longer your concern.

I think my 4th grader could write a better article 

Did you even read the article in it entirety?  So many flaws that it's hard to accept any fact or argument being brought forth

"Cut"?  How?  Unlike other family reunification visas, fiancee and spousal visas for partners of USCs do not have annual limits to the numbers given out.

I'm unaware of immigration law changes in the recent years.
Policies? There are some changes impacting some cases.
 
For a K-1 specifically, fiscal year 2018 had 43,280 visa applications.
Of those, 24,675 were initially issued and 18,605 being initially refused.
Among the refused, 10,427 were issued once the reason for refusal was overcome.
This makes the overall number of K-1s issued 35,102, which is 81% of all applications getting a visa.
https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/NIVWorkload/FY2018NIVWorkloadbyVisaCategory.pdf
 

Update on my oath / passport situation. 
 
After getting in in contact with the US embassy in my home country and USCIS they confirmed that I could NOT leave the US after the oath ceremony with my Portuguese passport and have the American passport done at the embassy overseas. The service is available but not in this situation. It is considered a crime to do so. 
 
Went to USCIS in person and they rescheduled the oath ceremony after asking for proof of my flight. It is now happening in 3 days and not on the day of my flight. 
 
They were awesome and very understanding of my family emergency trip. 
 
Best of luck to everyone else still in the process! 

This morning I got a text saying my n400 case was updated and I also got an email saying the update was “interview scheduled” and that they will mail the notice with details. When I checked the dhs  website where I applied for n400,  I don’t see any update yet,  but in the uscis case status website, it changed to “interview schedule” 
Anyone else went through this? 
 
I applied on January 10th this year and had biometrics on January 18th. My local office is Chatsworth, San Fernando Valley, CA. 

Hi @Adamaj123 , congrats on receiving your appointment letter. Good luck and best wishes. 

Just recieved my. appointment letter for June 6th.  Case closed was August 18th 2018.   Hang in there!

Hi guys, I just had my interview in Detroit, and I got approved It was super fast, took only about 10 minutes. The IO went through the questions from the application, and then did the test. My questions were:
Name two cabinet positions.
What did Martin Luther King Jr. fight for?
The idea of self government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
What ocean borders the US on the East coast?
Name one branch of our government.
What is the supreme law of the land?
I had to read "How many Senators are there?" and write "There are 100 Senators."
It is crazy to think that my immigration journey is almost done now. This forum has been an amazing source of tips and encouragement. Good luck to my fellow February filers who are still waiting!

I've had a crazy 2 weeks. I wrote in a previous post that at my naturalization interview, I was approved on the spot and verbally told my Oath Ceremony is on 5/30 by the Immigration Officer who interviewed me. I haven't received any mail/notices or change in online status since my interview on 4/15.
On 5/15, 2 weeks before my supposed Oath Ceremony, I called USCIS and emailed USCIS asking for an update since I haven't received anything in the mail. The phone rep told me to continue waiting and told me there was nothing she could do. My email was forwarded to my local Charleston field office, and they wrote back on 5/17 saying that according to USCIS records, an oath scheduling notice was mailed to me. It should arrive "very soon." I waited and waited, and nothing. I contacted my local congressman on 5/20 who also put pressure on USCIS. My congressman's aides haven't heard back from USCIS. I continue waiting thinking it would be in the mail at least by early this week if they said it was already sent out by 5/17. 
Yesterday, 5/28, I sent out another email to USCIS saying that the notice hasn't been received by me and my supposed Oath Ceremony is in 2 days. No reply. Today, 1 day out from my supposed Oath Ceremony, I called USCIS and spoke with a Tier 1 officer. She said she doesn't see I've been scheduled for my Oath Ceremony and nothing has been uploaded to my Documents tab, and she cannot email or call my local Charleston field office. She told me there is nothing she can do if it doesn't show on her side. I asked to be transferred to a Tier 2 officer and she put me in line to wait. A Tier 2 officer called me back and told me she can escalate this and will investigate it further with Charleston's field office. The Tier 2 officer told me a higher up officer will call me in a few hours. My worry was that if I was indeed scheduled for my Oath Ceremony tomorrow 5/30, and I miss it because I never received the notice, that I will be penalized. Also my husband wouldn't be able to come since the original reason why the Immigration Officer scheduled me for 5/30 is because my husband's in the military and it's hard for him to take time off. The Tier 2 told me it's well documented that I've reached out to USCIS several times for the missing notice and it will be OK even if that is the case that I miss it.
15 minutes after I get off the phone with Tier 2, Charleston's field office calls me directly and told me they scheduled me for my Oath Ceremony tomorrow and will email me directly the Oath Scheduling notice and told me to print it out and fill it out. I've never heard of being emailed an Oath Scheduling notice before but voila, I got it through email and it's confirmed it's tomorrow!
 
What a long ordeal... my online status still hasn't changed, nothing has been uploaded to the Documents tab, and I still haven't received any mail from USCIS lol. But at least I have the notice now. Fingers crossed tomorrow is the end of this journey!

What the title says.
 
We submitted our K1 petition early March.
 
Today, May 29th, my fiancée got a letter in the mail from USCIS saying that our petition got approved, and that it will be sent to the consulate to further contact me, the beneficiary.
 
Is this normal? Doesn't usually need at least 6-9 months? Even more? has this happen to anyone since the processing times got longer?
 

After 90 days you are out of status and subject to arrest and deportation.

Hi! So big news - my fiance and I will be making our marriage official next week! We'll be working on getting the paperwork done on his week off  
 
But one thing we're not sure on is how long we have to file for adjustment of status. At the end of June we're moving to another state and I'm not sure whether we need to file for it IMMEDIATELY or if we have some time. When I had my interview at the Consulate, I asked what to do with addresses and explained the situation, and the interviewer said that when we settle into the new state to file for it there.
 
I did get a pamphlet with the package I gave away at the port of entry, but it doesn't say how much time we exactly have. If anyone can give me some pointers, I'd appreciate it!

Here is the bottom line:  lying on immigration forms is NEVER the thing to do.  There can be dire consequences, even years down the line.  There are no questions on the petition that USCIS is not "legally" allowed to ask. 
 
Ultimately, it is your hill to die on.  Good luck and let us know how it goes for you.