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Usually time is a problem. Depending on class he might not make much progress. Hopefully it is a good program. Luckily I think (if i remember it correctly) most of the reading/writing are from a pool of words, sentences etc. So you can make him practice those. Also the civics test is a set of predetermined questions/answers so he can study them or worst case memorize the answers. Since it will be read out loud you can help him by reading the questions and him to answer them. That will be useful at the interview vs reading it by himself off a flashcard. Or he can read them out loud too That is how I practiced, drove my spouse crazy :))) So there are ways to have a smaller subset of things he can focus on vs the daunting task of "learn English for the interview". To practice reading/writing you should be doing some books that are for children/young adults depending on his level. This is not an insult, but using those types of books he can learn the basic words and sentence structure that will make it easier later on. Also movies in English and with English subtitles so he can associate the heard words to the written form. This might be hard, but he should cut off the Spanish content for a couple of months. Forcing yourself to use a language that you are not comfortable with will help enormously. When I was a kid, I had to use a old school dictionary to translate lyrics, took forever, but with google translate now it is fast so if he doesn't know a word it is easy to look it up. that would also help with spelling since he would need to type it into the app. I barely write with my hand anymore, so i did practice a bit since it felt alien to needing to write it down instead of typing. Also you can try to do dictation where he could write in a google doc and then the autocorrect would suggest the correct spelling or on paper and correct it later. If you speak Spanish, it is time to cut it out when you are speaking with him. Sure if there are certain nuanced things you need to say sure, but 99% communication should be in English. When he will tell you that he dreamed in English you are on the right track. And when he notices that he thinks in English as default you are golden. (I still can't do math in English since i didn't practice that) I wish I could go to South America for a couple of months to learn Spanish. (duolingo, taking Spanish course at a community collage didn't help much unfortunately) so in my opinion the important thing is the immersion.

Nothing out of the ordinary here unfortunately. All connecting flights after landing in the US you will always have to pick up and re-check your luggage and go through TSA again, transfer terminals etc. Glad to see that you made it despite being tight.

Safest is when you have the passport(s) with the visas(s) in you hand.

The "downside" of K1 is that you will be in limbo until you get your EAD or Green card. It is like I can get here faster, but then can't do much beside hanging out with the spouse and making friends, exploring the city.

This is what Florida wants form an immigrant to get an ID https://www.flhsmv.gov/driver-licenses-id-cards/what-to-bring/immigrant/

Not every state will give you a state id based ONLY on the social security card. Most of the will want to see EAD,. greencard. At least that was it a couple of years ago

Maybe they help with the stuff needed for the interview? E.g ds160, the financial affidavit and accompany documents, etc ?

Daang, I should start filling out forms for people for $$$$. Did not know it was this expensive. If you and fiancé have like 0 issues like former drug abuse, run-ins with the law etc it shouldn't be complicated. Do they provide anything else beside filling out forms for you? I don't think you can take a lawyer for an embassy interview.... If you can read and follow directions and have a bit of attention to detail it is not that hard. Sure it needs some research but this forum basically has it all and you can ask questions. Most of us here did it on our own and we were fine. "I was told that filling DS160 to schedule interview is really sensitive and needs to be done with precautions." What does this even mean? What I would do is spend like 3 hours on this forum and in the Guides section some of it might be outdated but in general it gives u an idea of the steps you need to do, then see how you feel about the process, also u can google ds160 form examples (it is an online form so probably harder to practice than just on a simple pdf) then decide if you feel up to it or $1500 worth that you don't have to learn/do it yourself.

That section is more like for if you go by X but your real name is Y. E.g you go by Bill or Will but your id has William on it. Or Ralph but you go by Ralphie Or you picked up an american name because your real name is hard to pronounce etc

we picked every 3 months (quarter) and sent in total of 8 for the 2 years. we sent in the full bank statement. we also highlighted our income going into the shared account on the statements, paying utility bills, car payments for the car we both owned, etc I think it is more important that you show continuity of shared expenses/income and mingling finances. If you have shared account but nobody is using it that is more of an issue.

Depending where the festival is you might need to cross United States Border Patrol interior checkpoint. Usually they are close to land borders up to a 100 miles inland from the edges of the country. Mostly in texas, new mexico, arizona and california (south border).

I didn't know USCIS waived the initial AOS interview. I heard of ROC being waived (mine was too)

Until DOGE gets to it. Anyway as others said don't redact it. You can send in your IRS transcripts which you can download from https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

It is a gray area because the ESTA/tourist visa is not for living in the US. The 90 days to 6 months for tourist visas is quite normal around the world and some people use that 90 day to the limit. My guess is back when these time frames were adopted nobody really thought that people would try to stay up to the last day and that creates these situations that are not really thought out. Plus globalization and tech advancements that you can work from anywhere in some cases. I think your MIL is going to be fine, there is no expectation of putting your life on hold (e.g not paying bills) while in the US. It would be completely different if she would be managing a property in the US while on ESTA. I would be more worried about the frequency (and length) of the visits.

Don't sell yourself for a "free" phone. Even if the budget is tight you can get a decent (Moto g g5 2024) model for like $150 on amazon that is the US version. Also as a new immigrant it will be interesting to get a whole new post paid plan right out of the gate

If you get roaming on it, it means it can connect to the US towers. It might happen that you won't get the full feature set and at some areas (rural mainly) in the US you won't get cell service or data connection but in general it should work. As others suggested try it with your partners sim card and see if data/calls are working. You might need APN settings for that carrier.

Could be skilled trades too. They do have to get a license right?

What about child support? did you pay that over the years?

Haven't used the website in a while. It used to be next to Case status , Case history, Documents when you look at the petition on my.uscis.gov

Look under the documents and you will find the letter if you don't want to wait until the snail mail comes. Once you know what they want you can prepare it and once the real letter comes send it back as the instructions says.

Btw based on your history saw that you have international travel coming up in January. Hope it doesn't conflict with your interview. You mentioned rescheduling but they do not going to reschedule it because you are on vacation. Have tired that because my rescheduled day conflicted with a planned vacation. We had to come home early from vacation so I can make my "new" N400 interview date that was rescheduled by the local office due to weather... Also make sure any trips won't affect your continuous residency and I believe traveling between interview and oath is also a bit annoying because I think at the oath they will ask about if you traveled overseas in the meantime. If you become citizen before your trip (oath taken), you MUST get an US passport before your trip.

Wow not bad. I also went through it in STL. Took a year from start to finish. They cancelled my interview due to bad weather meaning snow was expected, did snow a tad bit, but was nothing major, i don't even think schools got snow day.Just that added a month or so to the wait time After interview oath ceremony was a month and a couple of days later since STL does oath ceremony at the civil court. Curios to see how it pans out. Not too often seeing forks from around STL on here.

Just why? I mean it cost less even with a private hospital over there, but beside the "savings" it honestly don't make any sense. Just think of that child every time it needs a birth certificate, he will need to know all this ####### and be able to explain it at the DMV, school, etc and fight all the clerks that don't know what a CRBA is...

The other way around e.g renewing romanian passport was at least a month. I think they bundle it together and get a bunch of stuff shipped to the consulate at once at some cadence.