mr_s_p

A lot of people seems to be happy with ABF's UPACK... I'll be looking to use them when I'm ready to move... Hopefully this summer.

Some merit to the thought of "store, ship and forget"...

Scott.

Interesting...

I had my RCMP Police certificate 10 minutes after I walked into the Calgary RCMP Office... and I didn't have to pay anything.

Wonder if I'm missing something...?

Scott.

Actually, to clarify...

After July 30th, when you apply for AOS, it's a package deal, the fees cover the AOS, EAD and AP, though you still have to fill out 3 separate applications... it's in the small printing at the bottom of that PDF document.

Scott.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...edule052907.pdf

I'm sorry - but I just read the fee increases for some of these form and I'm shocked

Am I reading correctly that it will be $1010 for the AOS and $340 for the EAD once we're married? And I assume that will be x 2 because my daughter is 15 and will want to work in the future as well.

Think I'll scale back the wedding plans since I'll need to drop roughly $2700 after the wedding - this is nuts.

Anyone know what they were before....or tell me I'm reading wrong

Way to go!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

When we first met, we had discussed this... she has a home-based Direct Marketing business with which she has built up around the area where she lives to the point where she's in a position of authority. Whereas, I am an IT service provider. We figured that rather than her giving up her unit and having to rebuild everything up here in Canada, I should have a really easy time to apply my IT skillset in the area of smalltown southwest Kansas.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's some truth to that!!!!!!!

I actually sent an email to Tim Hortons Corporate Head Office suggesting a Tim Horton's for Liberal, KS, at the junction of US 54 and US 83....

Needless to say, I got the standard canned response... "Thank you for your email, your email has been forwarded to the appropriate...."

Oh, well... I didn't expect much in a response anyways.

THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!!!

We just received the email for NOA2!!!!! "On May 22, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F..."

FutureMrs, SkyMas, and others... there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Hang in there!!!

Yeah.... We're in the same boat, as well...

We've been RFE'd as well, and it seems to be taking FOREVER for them to get to it!!!

Though I wonder if AMBRA is interfering in some way shape or form...

Scott

Our last touch was Apr 27 and then my USC fiancee received an RFE... guess one of the legal documents she had was missing a signature. With small town Kansas, she got that done and sent off the next day. It was received at CSC on May 5 at some early hour of the morning.

Since then, nothing... zip... nada... A whole week without anything!!!! Obviously, the trend of following an RFE with a quick NOA2 is not happening for us...

But it seems that there hasn't been a single NOA2 this week at all. Wonder if they were all at training or something like that...

I posted this on another topic, but figured I'd bring this out into the open in a new topic...

"To add to the other posts...

I have researched the "I-9" and the "Handbook for Employers" (M-274)

Here's the URL for the I-9: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf

and for the Handbook for Employers: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/m-274.pdf

The explanation in Part 8 of the Handbook for Employers, particularly List A:

"Unexpired foreign passport which: ... has attached to it a Form I-94 bearing the same name as the passport and containing an employment authorization stamp..."

This is pretty much cut and dried... no room for ambiguity here.... "

Hope this clarifies...

To add to the other posts...

I have researched the "I-9" and the "Handbook for Employers" (M-274)

Here's the URL for the I-9: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf

and for the Handbook for Employers: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/m-274.pdf

The explanation in Part 8 of the Handbook for Employers, particularly List A:

"Unexpired foreign passport which: ... has attached to it a Form I-94 bearing the same name as the passport and containing an employment authorization stamp..."

This is pretty much cut and dried... no room for ambiguity here....

When my fiancee (USC) and I (Canadian) started going out a long while ago (2004), we talked this over and it was decided that my skills are more transportable than hers, since I work in the IT Industry doing computer support.

The company that I've worked for almost 9 years has offices worldwide... so therefore I've been networking with managers in the US. This company doesn't do cross-border transfers, but we have since found out that if I was to quit here in Canada, and get hired on immediately to this company's US offices, I can keep my time with the company, which means that I would be able to enrol in benefits immediately, vacation time entitlement, among other things. The prospects in the US offices have been more positive than I had expected, particularly since I will live in rather relatively sparsely populated SW Kansas, as there's a manager in the US that's kinda keen to hire me, but he has to clear it with US offices upper-management... To say nothing of trying to puzzle through this whole waiting 3+ months for the EAD and/or Green Card thing and if they can accomodate this somehow.

I guess, if it was meant to be, then it was meant to be...

So, in short, am I able to do the same career in the US? Seems like I should be able to do it. Though, I could upgrade my skills should I find that I have some free time waiting for the EAD.

Scott.

I'll be in a similar boat with the same consulate....

From what I've read, 14 is the magic number, but better to bring them anyways.

Ideally, the idea was to have everything sorted out for the summer... that way, the kids would finish school here in Canada, and be ready to register for the US school system for the new school year... Figured filing the I129F in January would work towards that... unfortunately, the CSC will take up any leeway time that I had tried to factor in... Oh well... The "saving grace" is that we will go through the Vancouver Embassy, which hopefully will put things back on track.

Irregardless, I don't plan to give notice and quite my job or put the house on the market until I have visa in hand.

We'll see how it goes.

From what I've read in recent posts, I noticed that the Montreal Consulate has been slow in booking interviews...

Whick kinda made me wonder, what kind of timeframe is it for the Vancouver Consulate to book interviews? Are they quicker than Montreal?

Perhaps this is not the proper forum for posting this question, but then again, it does say "General Discussion"...

A little bit of background...

I was reading in the K1 Visa forum, as we (My Kansan Fiancee and I) are pursuing a K1/K2 Visa, and a poster in the K1 forum had twigged me onto a very interesting fact, of which I have since done some research on, particularly the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, that if someone was born on US soil, territory or controlled area, they are immediately US Citizen's by birthright ("jus soli") (Thanks, HUSKERKIEV!!!).

I am a Canadian citizen, but I was born in Fontainebleau, France by Canadian parents, my father was in the Canadian Forces in France with NATO before NATO was booted out of France in '67.

But, and this is the interesting fact... I was born in a US Army Dispensary!!! I guess I couldn't wait to come out, and they had to go there for the delivery . I take it this means that this is "a little piece of US"???

Now the only documentation that I have of this is a very old US form (4 copies by carbon paper, top of which is the original) titled: "REPORT OF CHILD BORN ABROAD OF AMERICAN PARENT(S)". However, the "AMERICAN" is "X"ed out and CANADIAN is typed above it. It is documented on the form that the Place of Birth is "US Army Dispensary, Fontainebleau, France" and signed by both a REGISTRAR and ATTENDING PHYSICIAN who are officers of the US Military (1st LT MSC and CAPT MC).

So, I'm looking for opinions, based on this facts above:

1. Am I a US Citizen by birthright? Is this enough documentation to go forward with this to the Consulate?

2. Are there others that have been in a similar position? If so, have they followed through becoming US Citizens? What was the outcome?

3. I take it that if I am, my boys would automatically get US Citizenship?

What this comes down to, is that it would be kinda pointless to pursue a K1/K2 Visa if I can just go the Citizenship route.

What are all you galls' and guys' thoughts on this?