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Hey, sorry for the late reply. Yes, the Cédula is the Ecuadorian ID card, the Registro Civíl issues it.

She does not need to renounce her Ecuadorian citizenship in order to become a U.S. citizen.

However, if she were to get certain government jobs, she will have to renounce her Ecuadorian citizenship. This is of course after she becomes a U.S. citizen. Most of those jobs are for law enforcement and other intelligence positions. I know because a Colombian buddy of mine had to renounce his Colombian citizenship in order to work for the Air Marshals.

Thanks for the information!

You'll keep your Ecuadorian citizenship if you become a U.S. citizen. And with that you also get the wonderful responsibilities of maintaining a valid Cédula, as you will need to show it whenever you leave Ecuador. Don't know if you can renounce your Ecua citizenship, pretty sure you can, just wouldn't know how to go about it. Might as well keep it, free entrance to Argentina and Brazil. As a U.S. citizen you'll need a visa for Brazil and pay a reciprocity fee for Argentina.

Also, if you're a woman and take your husband's last name, the Registro Civil will not recognize your name change, you will always have your maiden two last names. What we did is go to the Ecua Consulate and have them make a note of her being married to me on the passport. This will also need to be done at the Registro Civil in order to show married status over there in Ecuador.

Pain in the butt, if you ask me. Passport is good enough for me, but if we ever want to live in Ecuador (which is not out of the picture for retirement), we'll most likely have to do it for the Cédula.

This is for my wife, she is the Ecuadorian citizen. She doesn't want to renounce her citizenship in Ecuador, unless she absolutly had to for US citizenship.

Is a Cédula an Ecuadorian ID?

Thanks for your reply!

Can anyone confirm that it is possible, as on Ecuadorian citizen (by birth), to get dual citizenship in the US and still hold their Ecuadorian citizenship as well?

Maybe I'm searching the wrong terms, but I can't find a definitive yes or no.

Why not just get the restrictions lifted then leave? Since it is so close...

This way she can always return without a huge hassle.

We changed the ticket. Thanks all for the advice.

This is what my wife and I ended up doing. We had tickets to visit her family, the interview notice came and it was right in the middle of our trip. We did what you decided to do and postpone our trip, then 2 months later my wife has her greencard, even before she got back from her trip.

That's what we did and it worked fine, are you sure you are on the correct page on the uscis.gov website? Maybe there is an issue with the site currently, give it a day or two.

First, I’m not sure this is the right forum, if not I’m sorry.

After you got your conditional greencards, what did you do with the stack of applications, forms, evidence, etc. that you used for the whole process?

I plan on keeping the evidence, the “welcome” letter, and the mailer that the greencard came in, but I am not sure about all of the NOA’s, copies of form (I-864, I-485, I-130, etc.). Is there any reason to keep this paperwork lying around or can I shred it?

Will any of that be useful in 2 years when we have to get the conditions lifted from her card?

Just for anyone else in the same situation, my wife entered the US using her AP without any problems.

Does she get back in the next few days? If not, there may be a problem. Once CIS thinks that the card was delivered they may cancel the AP and she's going to have a problem.

She gets back on Wednesday Oct. 1st, only 11 days after the "Welcome" letter was dated.

I would be calling the CBP el pronto! as AP may be cancelled upon approval of greencard.... I hope it is but I do not think the answer is quite cut and dried as she can use it so do not worry...

I called CBP and the lady said that the advanced parol document is still valid until my wife has her greencard in hand, hopefully she will not run into any issues on her trip home.

My wifes greencard was approved and I received the welcome letter from her dated Sept. 19th and have not received the actual greencard. She is out of the country right now and will be returning on Wednesday, she was going to use her AP papework to come back, can she still do that? Will she be able to come back without her greencard or stamp in her passport? Should I fax her the "Welcome Letter" so she can show that to the immigration agents?

I forgot to ask......My wife is currently out of the country, she was planning on coming back with her AP papers, what is going to happen now that her AOS was approved but she does not have her greencard in hand?

Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the quick responses!

Long story short, my wife and I went for her AOS interview back in July, the interviewer said everything looked good except the I-130 was not approved yet so she could not approve the AOS. Then in August we got a notice saying our I-130 was being transferred from one office to another for faster processing.

We have not received any approval notification for the I-130, but we did receive this...

This does mean that my wife's greencard has been approved and ordered, correct?

Anyone else have any input?

Nope, she shouldn't run into any probs. When non-USC or green card holders, the airline people take the I-94. When re-entering the US, they will expect her not to have the I-94.

But will any flags come up showing that she never surrendered the I-94 when she left the country?

FYI: In case it matteres the I-94 was from her F-1 student visa, not any K-x visa.

(Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I wasn't sure which one to put it in.)

My wife, who is a citizen of Ecuador is going through the AOS process, we went on vacation back to Ecuador in late July, the day before we were leaving we found out that her I-94 was lost, but we have a copy of it. The only place we can think we lost it was at the interviewer’s office when we went for her green card interview.

My wife had her interview back in July, everything went fine except the I-130 I mailed in was not approved yet, so the interviewer could not approve her green card. We left the country with her AP documents in hand.

When we left the country the I-94 was never asked for and we did not realize that it is suppose to be handed over when leaving the country. She has the copy of the I-94 with her as well as her AP documents and also a note written in her Passport from the interviewer about the pending AOS.

Will she run into any problems when re-entering the US? If no one knows, who should I call to find out?

Should I have originals of my parents W2's and tax returns? Or will two sets of copies be good enough?

I have a question regarding our AOS interview and our I-864 and I-864A documents.

A little background, I do not make enough to be a sole sponsor of my wife and my parents each filled out an I-864A to be my joint sponsors. With my two parents there is plenty of income to ‘support’ my wife but I want to make sure I have everything to sufficiently prove this.

Our interview date is drawing near and I want to know if I should bring my parents 2007 W2’s and tax return (I submitted their 2006 info when we filed)? Also should I ask my parents to get a letter of employment from their employers? Should I get copies of their pay stubs?

I am not currently employed, I am receiving workers compensation while attending college and my wife is also a student so we do not have much income.

Hi Guys,

I just received our AOS interview confirmation letter in the mail this afternoon. Our date is set for August 6th of this year and it couldnt be worse timing. I have been waiting for over 7 months and figured that the interview would take forever. With this in mind I booked a summer vacation to Europe to see some family and friends departing Aug 2nd -12th. Is there anyway i can postpone my interview date by a few weeks? I called the airline we are due to fly with and they confirmed that in order to change the reservation it would be a fee plus fare difference which works out to over $2000. I really don't want to have to change our travel dates. Has anyone had any success in moving their interview date?

Thanks

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This exact thing happened to my wife and I. We ended up postponing our trip just to be safe. Our concern now is about being able to travel ASAP after the interview.

Good luck with what ever you end up doing.

I ran into the same issue, I'm in college and don't earn enough to 'support' my wife. My parents filled out the I-864A and I filled out the I-864.

good , and did everything went all right ?

My wife's interview in on July 17th so we won't know until then.

I ran into the same issue, I'm in college and don't earn enough to 'support' my wife. My parents filled out the I-864A and I filled out the I-864.

I have a couple questions.

Does the local office send out interview letters when the local office in fact does the interview?

How long in advance are the letters sent out?

Does the length of advance warning vary with office?

(We're trying to plan some travel.)

Thanks for responses.

The National Benefits Center in Missouri sent my wife her interview letter (interview is in NY) and from receiving the letter to the date of the appointment is 6 weeks. Good luck with your travel, ours got all messed up since the interview landed right in the middle of our already scheduled vacation.

Ohh that's the problem, don't worry you can use the advance parole document to re-enter the US, beside you can always ask politely the officer to stamp you wife's passport with the temporary permanent residence. Bring the ticket reservation and explain your travel plans, that won't be any problem.

Have a nice trip and good luck on your interview

That's great news to hear. Thanks again to everyone who responded!