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ok, well hope my wifes gets the same treatment because we have about 8 trips and no way she can remember all the dates. good to know you have 15+ trips and no problem with that too.

just to be clear, you were able to hang on to your support documents and refer to them throughout the interview? when you say "Referring to your documentation is fine", did you actually do that?

in many example interviews on YT it's often the first question asked in the small talk/chat section at the beginning.

i think my ability to defend and protect the Constitution is pretty insignificant, the supreme court was supposed to do that and even they have given up (sorry for off topic but i couldn't help myself)

i'm pretty sure that isn't the answer they want to hear.

you think that would be acceptable? i thought it would be expected you were supposed to be committing more of your time to the US, not less. i've heard that returning green card holders now need to prove ties to the US like utility bills, bank accounts etc. even following short trips abroad. i guess "I also want a real permanent status that will not need to be renewed every ten years" sounds legit and should not be a red flag maybe

what do you think is the best answer to this question? in YT videos I see a lot of people say "because i want to vote", do you think that's good enough or is there a more convincing answer?. i meant a lot of American can't be bothered to vote and going through years of trouble and expense just for something that is unlikely to make any difference seems a little unbelievable. i think a more honest answer is "because i don't want to loose my green card if i travel too much or get a traffic ticket and i don't want to renew it every 10 years", but i'm guessing that isn't a great answer. what do you think?

i'm guessing you are not allowed to take a cheat sheet in then like a list of travel dates and other relevant dates that might come up?

ok, i added that part because not sure studying the list is working

thanks for all the tips. the big problem i have is its like swimming up river, the moment you stop swimming, you go back down stream. i think she has learned something pretty well, then the next day we go for a walk, i ask a test question and get an answer from a different question. i agree with Crazy Cat, maybe the only way is she hand writes out all the questions and answers over and over again

she's been speaking English every day for 22 years with me so i doubt a few lessons will make much of a difference. like i said, she understands the questions and the answers, but makes simple mistakes connecting them. i've tried to explain American history and government structure so she understands the concepts behind the questions, and she's seen videos in Thai too, but Thai's are taught in school not to think and problem solve, simply to remember and regurgitate

not what i hoped for. my wife knows a bunch of questions and a bunch of answers, the problem she has is connecting them in the right order, so something i think she knows like "name one war fought by the US in the 1800s", half of the time she'll answer WW1 or 2 and there seems to be no way i can fix that. BTW, we can't apply until next summer so she will get the 2025 test

my wife has a memory like a sieve, we've been practicing the civics test questions and i thought she was doing OK on the old test but now with the 2025 test, she seems to have forgot the stuff she already knows! so, suppose she fails the N400 interview on the civics, on a second test, would she have to answer 12 out of 20 randomly chosen or would they only ask the questions she failed on the first time? if she failed on the english writing, would she get the same sentence to write next time and if she didn't know a definition on the yes/no questions, would she have to explain only the words she failed the first time? thanks

from a tax point of view and international banking that's true. no bank in Thailand will open an account for an american. my friend's wife is Swiss, she tried to open a bank account in Switzerland after living in the US for 30+ years and some how the Swiss banks found out she had a US passport and refused her, in her own country! i've entered Thailand on different passports in the past to try avoid the limits on visaless re-entries and thai immigration figured it out and told me to stick to only one passport in future!

ok thanks, so i guess strike that off the list of things to worry about. i don't want to renounce my UK citizenship even though i would never want to live there full time.