lmatos1978

Like many others have stated....You may have to start looking outside of your field initially. When I moved here from Canada, I left behind a very nice job working regulation in the energy industry for the province. I waited for 15 months for my green card to be processed and when I was finally able to I flooded the area I live in with resumes. That was in August... I didn't hear anything until November 2013... I've been here ever since and I work part time as an administrative assistant at a bank. While this is not a "money making" job or near as challenging as my last position I like the people I work with, like the job and I have amazing hours that allow me to take my stepdaughter to and from school, as well as her jazz, ballet, tap and gymnastics activities.
You might surprise yourself by taking a job in a field you've not been in or that you feel isn't good enough.
Good luck in your search

and just an FYI, if you apply for jobs with the county, city, state or any government job make sure that you do not need to be a citizen to apply. Many of those jobs require US citizenship in order to even apply. Good luck!!!

My husband is an engineer and he got a job at Walmart until he found a job in his field. Many employers will not hire a foreigner with no US job experience. Get yourself at least a part time job somewhere, anywhere...even if it's minimum wage

Have you tried going to a temp/staffing agency? They can help with your resume and equip you with skills to get an interview and nail it. Since they do a lot of hiring they can tell you where you're falling short. Also they may be able to find you some short term stuff to get your feet wet.
I'm not trying to be judgmental but it doesn't really sound as if you're trying really hard. Trying to find a job is more than just applying online. Have you tried to take some short training courses? Gotten out of you house with a stack of resumes and looked for places that hire people in the roll you want and spoken to them in person? Started networking and going to social work events in your areas? Looked up job fairs at colleges near you?
When I first moved here i spent the first week applying online. After that I took a stack of resumes and Monday morning I put on my only professional suit. I walked business to business, asked for the manager and told them I was interested in applying for a job at their company. Half way through the first week I landed an interview on the spot and started the next week. Treat your job search like a job- do it Monday to Friday. Do your research, find out how you can better yourself, research positions you would like and see what requirements you don't need. If you're bent on not working an inferior job you will have to work you're butt off for it.
Good Luck- You're hard work will pay off.

My wife received her EAD 3-27-2015. She started working at 7-Eleven in April. She has worked her butt off in that position, even thought it's not close to being on par with her field of training in Germany. She was in hotel apprenticeship. In about 2 weeks, she will start as a nanny. Though that may not sound prestigious, it will very much help with our current situation. My wife is due to give birth to our 1st child in late Oct. Being a nanny allows her to receive more pay than she does currently, as well as being able to have our child with her at work. This will negate the need to pay for childcare. The family has already told her that they want her for 2-3 years, so that really gives us a good opportunity to continue to build our family foundation while reassessing the direction we'll go from there.

Lower your expectations and look outside your field and you'll find a job.

Sometimes you have to just take what you can get at first, if you want to work right away.
My wife had a masters degree in education from the Philippines. She was a school teacher, and then became the principal of a 1000 student elementary school before coming here. But the first job she took here was in housekeeping at a nursing home, doing laundry. Then she got a second job part time working in housekeeping at a hospital cleaning rooms. She got a 3rd job part time working in food services at an elementary school cafeteria. So she had 3 jobs at that point at the same time. So she was well educated, but worked at jobs that were available, and poured her heart into it.
She still works as a resident assistant at an assisted living, and is an airman in the U.S. Air Force Air National Guard, but is finishing up a degree to become a registered nurse now. She opted for a complete career change at her own choosing. But the point is she worked hard at what jobs were immediately available to her and did not consider any job beneath her. All things work out in time.

You are way too picky. I have graduate degrees, and more than 8 years experience working in academia in my country. Yet I worked a low paying, night job at walmart for a while. I had another job in education in which I commuted for 60 miles, waited for two hours, then took two more buses for an additional 90 minutes. Wake up at 2 every morning so that I could be at work at 8. Thankfully, that was a temp job, because it was difficult on me.
Currently, I have a better paying position and my commute time is 45 minutes. Yes, I use two buses because I can't drive. Honestly, if you really want a job, and don't live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, you can find one.

hey! I know it's hard to find a job here, especially when you were raised in different country.... my thoughts to you would be open your eyes and see other fields and other options!!!! your bachelors degree means absolutely nothing without experience in USA... that is brutal THRUTH! Go out! meet friends, see whats out there!
I've been married for almost two years now... when I got here I knew my bachelors degree was going to be no good... I knew I had to start from scratch... at the same time I didnt have money to go school... so I just started applying for restaurant jobs. I worked as a hostess, busser and finally I got a servering position. I started educating myself about fine wines and foods. And now I'm one of the yougest servers in a fine dining restaurant in CA (I'm 24)! And I make more money then my hubby does...
In USA it's all about how good you can "sell yourself".... If youre confident, know what you're talking about, enthusiastic, you'll get the job! There are so many companies and so many employers! if you screw up on one interview who cares!!!! move on! go again again! dont give up!!!
You said something that you're a new driver.... I understand you on that!!! Believe me I was shaking like a leave first time driving on a freeway by myself!!! my thoughts to you, get a cheap car (automatic), get a good insurance, take back ways to places (meaning dont take freeways first times), before you drive find out the correct address, google map it, memorise the streets you are going to take lleft and right turns and you'll be good! believe me i went through this.... If you have any questions please let me know... hope this was usefull...

It's crucially important that you report this fraud as a priority, per the procedure above.

Thanks for the reply but....you are wayyy off. First of all I did NOT fill out any form for support. My ex did everything behind my back until her mother arrived including forging my signature and financial information on form i-864a. Also divorce would NOT eliminate my sponsorship of her mother (it is easy to find this information on the USCIS website).
http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/affidavit-support
"Note: Divorce does NOT end the sponsorship obligation."
This is not about revenge, this is about not being financially responsible for someone I did NOT agree to support

Straight from USCIS:
"A person is subject to revocation of naturalization if he or she procured naturalization illegally. Procuring naturalization illegally simply means that the person was not eligible for naturalization in the first place. Accordingly, any eligibility requirement for naturalization that was not met can form the basis for an action to revoke the naturalization of a person. This includes the requirements of residence, physical presence, lawful admission for permanent residence, good moral character, and attachment to the U.S. Constitution.​ [1] ​
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Discovery that a person failed to comply with any of the requirements for naturalization at the time the person became a ​U.S.​ citizen renders his or her naturalization illegally procured. This applies even if the person is innocent of any willful deception or misrepresentation.​ [2]"


I'm curious how your husband was even granted citizenship in the first place, because according to your timeline of events, he wasn't even eligible. I have a feeling that the interviewer asking all those questions about dates in your interview was NOT a good thing.

he also sounds like he could be a pickup artist with the "negs" (negative things) and his notions about what women should do/be/are. google "pickup artists" or the "seduction community." here's a wikipedia article that talks some about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community

when you said this about the interest in serial killers, i became extremely frightened for you, along with the other stuff about him asking you if he wants to punch you...
*jumping up and down screaming* OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Love To Teach HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD--please listen to her and don't go visit this man.

She may have questions about if he really qualified for citizenship due to a possible lack of good moral character. As others have said it's more him that should be concerned, not you.

No it seriously don't prove anything other than two people having sex. I know a couple who had 3 kids and still the wife was not granted a GC.

I am confused as to why he got citizenship under the three year rule then.

You definitely did not break any laws but the your case will be thoroughly reviewed because of your husband's history. The officer could take your husband's previous marriage as bonafide but might take his marital relationship as not bonafide. What they look for is a bonafide marital relationship not only the bonafide marriage.
Since you gave birth to his baby while he was married to another, it proves you two were in a relationship while he was married. In other words, his marital relationship was not bonafide.
Divorcing withing months of getting citizenship by marriage and then marrying you right after divorce might convince the officers that his whole intent from the very beginning was to marry you and to make you a GC holder. If the officers get convinced that he planned and paved his way with that intent, then yes, you are in a problem.
Hope for the best and good luck..

Interesting....his marriage to first wife was bonafide, yet you became pregnant by him during that time so that makes your now marriage to him bonafided too. DId you become pregnant while here on your visitor's visa and then stay to have the baby or were you already pregnant when you arrived? (I believe you stated you had the baby in the US) You had the baby in 2012 and he got citizenship in 2014 under the 3 year rule.
So he was married in 2011, you gave birth in 2012, and in 2014 he got citizenship, divorced, and remarried. Within in 6 months of obtaining citizenship he divorced and married you immediately thereafter. Do you see the timeline there?
Sounds very fishy...very. Yes be prepared to be further scrutinized.

I have to admit it looks sketchy and you didn't break any laws or rules directly. The CO obviously has full discretion in the matter and it's up to them to decide if this is real or not. I know a baby seems like a good case for a real marriage, but you had the baby before marriage for the other couple. As adults we all know it doesn't take a marriage or relationship to have baby. It may well look like to the CO that this marriage is of convenience to adjust status.....especially divorcing and getting remarried so fast after gaining citizenship (though there is nothing they can do to him now as he's a citizen). I am not one to judge or speak out of line, but they treat everything guilty until proven innocent concerning immigration matters.
For curiosity sake what type of visa were you here on?

I don't believe that you'll find anyone that believes that you should give him a chance. We all know how hard this process is, and we've seen people in STABLE happy relationships end up becoming homesick after 2 weeks and no amount of love from their spouse was enough to keep them in a place they hated.

DO NOT MARRY SOMEONE that you would not want your future children to marry If you had a daughter and she told you about her boyfriend and said all of the words you're saying to us, would you want her to be with him? Would you want her to feel that pain you're feeling?

DO NOT MARRY SOMEONE because you believe they may change after you marry them. MOST people who are pretty cruddy before marriage become even cruddier. All they have to say in their defense is "Well you married me and you know I was like this!" and then put the blame on you.

MARRY THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE -NOW- at THIS current moment in time. If they are not someone that you would want to marry NOW, do NOT marry them.

Remember, BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP can change a person for the better, MARRIAGE usually does not. If just being in a relationship and going through this process didn't make him step up, he will NOT step it up when you get married.

Some people may believe that it's easy to change a life style, but if this is how he's lived his life, how he treats those he "loves" and the world around him, he will not change. He would have to have something incredible happen to him to make him realize that he would need to change and marrying into that would only give him justification to stay the same.
If you marry him the way he is now, you accept that, that is him and that is the person you want to marry and that everything that upsets you about him and hurts your soul and heart is okay with you. Your vows will say for better or for worse and it CAN get worse than what you're dealing with right now. DO NOT ACCEPT THIS BEHAVIOR, do not believe that you can change him, DO NOT THINK THAT ANY OF THIS IS YOUR FAULT, He is who is he is, and he was like this all his life regardless of what "life stories" he may tell you. If you marry him, you marry -him-. You are not marrying what you want him to be, you are marrying him and every ill he can bring you.

You have a chance to break this vicious cycle in your life but YOU have to make it, he never will.

Do you really want to be in an awkward situation? Personally, I'd postpone the entire thing until he finds a job.

I respect my friends GFC opinion while offering mine as another perspective.
In all of this time you have waited for the process & things to be right before you came here which will be life changing no doubt. His promise may have been sincere but he hasn't found a way to really fulfill possibly the most serious promise.
Coming here with knowing this with the pressure of impending marriage ect is perhaps a little too much. You will make a huge sacrifice which will include your family to some extent.
With no known joint sponsor for the AOS there could be a real problem in the future. How will you be supported thru all of this? Mom?
The suggestion that you would remain in the USA illegally is irresponsible at best & self centered. Don't plan on anything other than following the laws.
You are lucky to be from a VWP country so I wouldn't do anything to affect that status. You could use your ticket & time to come to visit & see first hand what life may be like for a short time.
No one can say what you should do other than to weigh the facts as they are. To me the first hole in the road shouldn't be created by the man I love especially if he has plenty of time to fill it for me.

What are you hoping to "hide" this time around?

THANK YOU for your suggestions!
I just did that and they managed to find the package before it was out for delivery. They were so extremely helpful.
This might help others - the delivering USPS office is Rio Salado (Phoenix, AZ) but nobody seems to answer the phone number they have listed (ending in 3245). Instead, I found this one 602-223-3242, and they seem to pick up the phone on that line. I spoke to Christy and she was amazingly helpful. Best customer service I have ever had through USPS! They are going to hold it for 1 day and deliver it tomorrow (06/30 which is my eligibility date) rather than today as scheduled.
OMG what a nightmare. I am just so thankful that Christy at USPS was so accommodating and helpful, so hopefully it all works out now.

hello there! for you to be able to apply for continuous residency to count towards naturalization, you should not be out of the US for more than 6 months at a time. if you live outside the US for more than 6 months but less than one year, you can come back with just your green card to present at the port of entry but your time for continuous residency towards naturalization will have to restart. you cant use your original entry into the US to count towards naturalization. as an example, if you enter the US on january 1, 2014 and take vacations every now and then to australia no more than 6 months every time then you would be eligible to apply for naturalization 3 months before january 1, 2017. but if at one of your vacations you stayed more than 6 months like what you said you've been in australia for almost 6 months now and you decide to come back say august 1, 2015 then your january 1, 2014 will become null and void and your time will reset to august 1, 2015, so your new date of eligibility for naturalization will 3 months before august 1, 2018 and no longer 3 months before january 1, 2017. so it is very important not to stay outside the US for more than 6 months if you have plans of naturalizing.