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My wife and I sent her ROC application in at the very end of 2016; receipt letter on Jan 3 2017, followed by biometrics on Jan 31 2017. Then a lot of nothing. Transferred  to TSC in March 2018, more nothing, an RFE in May 2018, more nothing until September when we got an interview letter. Interview on Oct 24 2018, at which time the IO asked almost no questions (more confirmation of what was already in the file) and said things would go forward. We got the email later that day saying my wife's GC was being produced. Clearly we're not finished just yet, but still, 22 months from application to approval.

29 minutes ago, tungsten_tip said:

Just wondering: has anyone heard of anyone receiving a new, 18-month extension letter, besides those who filed right around May/June 2018? I haven't seen any examples of people filing way back in 2017 getting a new letter, unless I'm missing something.

 

I filed in May 2017 and received a 12-month extension letter valid until... well, tomorrow! That news release a couple of months back got my hopes up that I'd be receiving a new extension letter, meaning I wouldn't have to get an infopass appointment. But I guess I was wrong. 

My wife got her extension letter yesterday. January 2017 filer, GC expiration in March 2017, meaning this "extension" really only adds a month. Fortunately we got her passport/visa stamped before the end of the original 1-year letter, so she'll be good into 2019. Kinda pointless to sent 18-month extensions to people who have been waiting for 18 months...

Thanks for the quick responses. You are confirming my first thoughts, so we'll just stick with that. Yeah, I do tend to over-think things, but for something this important, I believe I prefer over-thinking to under-thinking...

Thanks again!

Hi all,

I've search for this on the forums and Google, but can't find an definitive answer. I hope that this is an easy and/or dumb question that someone has encountered before.

I'm in the US and I'm helping my wife in Ukraine fill out her DS-260. Most of the questions are straightforward and simple enough, but the question "Do you hold or have you held any nationality other than the one you have indicated above?" is something we're unclear on.

My wife was born during the days of the USSR. She has never moved from Ukraine or lived anywhere else. Obviously her current nationality is Ukrainian, but would she technically have been a citizen of the USSR prior to Ukraine's independence in 1991? In (political) theory, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a sovereign state, even when part of the USSR, which would mean that she's never had a nationality other than Ukrainian. But given the de facto nature of the USSR and its total control by the Russian SSR, would she need to enter "Russia" and any relevant information as a prior nationality?

We are both fairly certain that the answer should be "no," but I still have a lingering doubt. We both want her application to sail through as smoothly as possible, and accuracy is definitely helpful in making that happen. Given the number of people who have immigrated from the former Soviet countries, I'm sure we're not the first to ponder this question. And maybe I'm just over-thinking this, which I am totally prone to doing.

Thank you in advance to anyone with useful answers or insights to this question.