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  1. steeeeve
    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.
  2. steeeeve
    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?
  3. steeeeve
    in many example interviews on YT it's often the first question asked in the small talk/chat section at the beginning.
  4. steeeeve
    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)
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    i'm pretty sure that isn't the answer they want to hear.
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    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
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    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?
  8. steeeeve
    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?
  9. steeeeve
    ok, i added that part because not sure studying the list is working
  10. steeeeve
    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
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    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
  12. steeeeve
    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
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    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
  14. steeeeve
    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!
  15. steeeeve
    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.
  16. steeeeve
    i just saw this video which i suspect is AI slop but not sure one of the main points is that dual citizens may be required to prove ties to the US to renew a US passport. i've renewed my US passport twice in Thailand already without incident and although i'm living in the US at the moment i will move back to Thailand one day. i wonder if this is going to become an issue? (BTW, i'm asking for me this time, usually i ask about my wife's N400 process but now i'm worried about me too because i'm a dual citizen US and UK)
  17. steeeeve
    that's why we are spending years of our lives dealing with this BS. A Thai passport is barely worth the paper it's printed on. all we want is freedom to travel when and where we want without visas.
  18. steeeeve
    that's not a lot of notice but depending on timing we'll likely wait for the interview appointment before booking any travel. we like a few month in Europe in the summer and all winter in Thailand.
  19. steeeeve
    i wonder how much notice they typically give for the oath ceremony appointment? if we are out of the country we'd need time to get flights back. i guess USCIS should send the appointment notice withing 30 days of interview so i can work with that
  20. steeeeve
    ok, well i'll do the math then, i think a 3 month trip will still be under the 18 month limit but it will be close. i'll double check.
  21. steeeeve
    ok, so there is a physical presence rule 18 months max outside the country during 3 years from green card to application for married applicant. suppose a trip between interview and oath puts us over the 18 months, would that be a problem?
  22. steeeeve
    so if you end up having to wait months for the oath, i assume you can still travel and use the green card for re-entry then?
  23. steeeeve
    ok, i guess the posts i read meant the same day, not necessarily during the interview. i did mine about 30 years ago and don't remember much about it but i do remember having to go to a ceremony outside the San Jose courthouse with about 30 other people. my wife's friend recently did the N400 interview in Syracuse which is our office too and she had the ceremony about 3 months after the interview. i've also see reports pf people saying they've waited 9 months for the oath so i guess it really is random.
  24. steeeeve
    why do some people get to do this and others have to wait to attend a ceremony? is it based on which office you do the interview or something else? oh, just saw the above post, so basically no way to know which way it will go then?
  25. steeeeve
    i see a lot of people report doing the oath ceremony during the N400 interview. if this happens, is there any need to attend another oath ceremony in a group meeting later? how is it determined if the oath is done together with the N400 interview or later? i'm just not clear what happens after the interview (assuming success of course) and most importunately,, how long it would take following the interview to get a US passport? thanks
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