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Someone else can confirm, but I believe because you are MFJ, you have to file the I-864 (not the EZ) and the I-864A. If you have your tax transcripts, use those. They prove not only were your taxes filed, but they were reviewed by the IRS. So, transcripts for 2022-2024. If you only have transcripts for 2022 & 2023 plus the 1040's and W2's for 2024, do that. How old is your child?

Because the OP has come onto a public forum, discussed options and now has to make a decision, coming to the US with the intent to adjust status would be immigration fraud. The if the OP was already in the US and having this discussion, things would be different.

Answer: no The question is referring to filling out the form to formally rescind PR status or having it taken away by an immigration judge.

Yes, but she will have to submit her certificate to get her and the child's US passports. The certificate is also needed to get the N-600. The passports will come MUCH faster than the N-600. Once processing of the N-600 is complete, the 16yo will have to attend an oath ceremony and will receive their Certificate of Citizenship.

Just for clarification: Premeditatively entering the US with the intent to marry and adjust status is immigration fraud. Premeditatively entering the US with the intent to marry and return to their home country to complete their immigration journey is fine.

The interview slots are arguably challenging to get. I seem to recall people saying attempt shortly after midnight eastern time to try and nab one. Good luck!

Heaven forbid you put a pot of water on the stove and cook some traditional pasta (potentially even more financially savvy) in parallel while warming the meatballs! 🤣

Unfortunately, not uncommon. There were a couple of people here that got caught up in this last year. Interviews in September, but no visa until the new fiscal year began in October.

Driver's side in North America or driver's side in the UK, Australia or Japan? 🤭

What status are you on in the US? Please fill out your timeline: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=492268

🤦‍♀️So, on one hand we have this garbage and then we have this on the other: https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2025/09/04/texas-is-poised-to-replace-staar-here-is-what-schools-new-standardized-tests-would-look-like/ I realize the article is related to TX and TEA, but they are dumbing down the English requirement and contemplated getting rid of the Social Studies aspect of standardized testing in the state. Like what the deuce? So, this administration wants foreigners to produce an essay when the US' own kids in the second largest state are seeing dumbing down of these exact requirements to successfully produce their own essay? It makes ZERO sense. Worry about what's happening right here, right now to current Americans! The garbage I read online from a good number of Americans demonstrates they have not learned or failed to retain any American history and really don't understand the Constitution. So my question to Edlow would be where are your locals "attachments to the Constitution as required by the statute"? My next question would be who judges the essay for this apparent attachment? It's subjective at best. A multiple choice test is either right or wrong. No room for wishy washy. An essay can depend on how the "grader" feels on that day. Much of USCIS is yes or no. Did you file income tax, yes or no? Do you have proof of intermingling of finances or insurances, yes or no? Have you been an exemplary human while residing in the US as a PR, yes or no? Citizenship is hardly the biggest challenge in the whole immigration scheme IMO. As for a language requirement, I don't have an issue with a generalized requirement for speaking and listening. Canada has this provision for their citizenship appointment but it's just that - a generalized provision for understanding. It's not a dig for complements to feed the egos and tell the country how pretty it is. My friend's wife had to do it quite recently and it's taken very seriously and if there is any suspicion of cheating, you fail. End of story. The current citizenship test though...I don't know what apparent "coaching" can happen other than learning the answers.

The code would have been on one of the NOA's you were mailed.

This is untrue. This is part 4 of this thread and there has been past discussion about MENA countries as well as TAL professions seeming to be flagged more often. But, as @Ontarkie pointed out, there have been many people with ZERO affiliation with those countries or on TAL occupation lists who've landed in extended AP. There have been elderly Canadians and young children that have been flagged. Additionally, remember Canada is a diverse country in general, a giant mixing pot of backgrounds and cultures, and the Montreal Consulate interviews for ALL immigrant visas across Canada, so to put everyone in an Iranian bucket based on DV visas is pretty short sighted IMO.

To apply for the N400, use the 90 days before the resident date on your GC. The time you spent together prior to that, be it outside the US or inside, serves as evidence supporting your claim in marital union that is required to apply under the 3 year rule. You have to have been physically present in the US to meet all requirements, hence why you need to know that resident since date.

We moved Kid1 into university residence in Alberta last Sunday. She was in rough shape, dealing with significant and severe GI issues. I nearly didn't get on the plane to come home. Her father did finally take her to the clinic and they got her fixed up...temporarily. She had another attack on Tuesday last week and ended up having to miss some of the orientation stuff she really should have been a part of. Things seem to have settled somewhat, but she is on a lot of medications and has been in contact with her GI here in TX to make sure everything sounds kosher. We returned Tuesday, only to head to the vet on Wednesday with our oldest cat. She had suffered with kidney disease for a couple of years now, but she was in full renal failure and I had to make the heart wrenchingly correct choice to end her suffering and help her across the rainbow bridge. She was my black n tan Siamese with giant marble blue eyes that purred like a Mack truck. I was her chosen person and we really were besties. I'm missing her purry head butts for pets and insistence on offering love bites when she wasn't being sufficiently worshiped. Terrible couple of days...both my 18 year old girls had to leave me in the same week. At least one will be home in November for a visit. Monty, the anime cat, is lost without his dominatrix telling him what to do. They had an interesting relationship - she took the mickey out of him a couple of times to put him in his place when he assumed he'd join the household as head cat. These were full on, Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner dust cloud battles with paws and clumps of fur rising from the fighting fury. He learned and accepted this role, but now he's wondering where the Boss went. The other boy cat isn't so bothered, probably because he moved into Kid2's room ages ago to avoid Monty the Monstesarus being a total jerk to him.

The face of her business is going to change once she has a little person to contend with. If you sit down and run the hard numbers and factor in things like cost of living, insurance (OOP vs NHS), and your salaries relative to that cost of living, how does it factor out? Can she afford to be off while she has the baby, afford the baby and afford you since you cannot work until you get married, apply to adjust status and for employment authorization and receive said authorization? You will be home with the baby, which is great, but is it something that is truly manageable? What is the contingency plan should something not go as anticipated with the pregnancy? My colleague just unexpectedly delivered her little man, via c-section, 6 weeks early, this past weekend. Luckily, she is in a country that offers proper maternity leave, so she is well looked after and her baby is too. Work colleagues are scrambling because they thought they essentially had a month for her to hand off activities. If your partner ended up in a similar situation or babe ended up in the NICU, is that manageable? Pregnancy is not typically grounds for an expedite, especially when the petitioner is the American living in the US. I'm not trying to sound pessimistic, but immigration is not fast, cheap or for the faint of heart. So much planning needs to go into it. I realize she'd be facing similar considerations moving to the UK, but honestly, as a person that had 2 kids in Canada and was able to take a full year of leave, I wouldn't change it for the world. The time I had with my kids to have them hit all the first year milestones and to not have to put them into daycare and expose them to all of the germs was a dream. It also taught me to slow down, enjoy them and realize the days might be long, but the years really are short. The US is very much a rat race when it comes down to work-life balance. She may have a real opportunity to join you and see "the other side" of things.

Didn't realize Kid2's lunch bag was still in his backpack from the end of school in May. 🤢 If you have anything requiring homegrown penicillin, I've got you covered...

The rules have changed a lot in recent times. I was able to self import my vehicles a couple of years ago, but many Canadian manufacturers won't issue a letter of compliance anymore and the registered importer thing has been pushed pretty hard since post covid, especially so in the last 2 or so years. The tariff thing is just more fuel on the fire.

Many things make no sense. When we started my GC process, hubs was a LPR. When he became a citizen and "upgraded" my petition, suddenly the kids, who were included as derivatives on the F2 application, needed their own I-130's. So, we go from one application, one fee with derivatives to needing 3 applications and 3 fees. If you actually take a step back and look at it, citizens pay more fees for some of these "privileges". It's bizarre. So, given how screwed up some stuff is, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't actually recorded in SAVE.

You can get scat mats on Amazon that may be just what you need. We got some clear ones. The initial shock taught Monstersarus to stay off of the counters. He eventually learned that the ones on the upstairs cabinets were more like a bed of nails...if you put even pressure on them, you could actually walk on them. But, it certainly helped!

But even $5K is a lot when you're already traveling from abroad. Maybe less so for Canucks and Mexicans because of proximity. I dunno...I suppose this could be argued as a put your money where your mouth is because many visas have the caveat of you're supposed to have access to $10k or around that amount to prove you can survive when you visit. What's another $5-10K on top of that?

Get Miu soft claws. See if there is a vet tech that will come to you and put them on since I know Miu isn't real pleased with pawdicures to begin with. The tech can trim the murder knives and then apply the nail caps.

Not targeted at all...🙄 I get it - reduce visa overstay, but wasn't this administration just crying that tourism is down and the financial impacts are being felt? Las Vegas is REALLY hurting. This certainly isn't going to help if it expands further. I'm surprised "mean and nasty Canadians" aren't on that list, too 🤭

This. How did you come to the US in the first place? How old were you when you naturalized? How much time did you spend in the US, including discontinuous time? If you fill out your timeline, you'd avoid many of these questions. https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=482876

Exactly this. But I also think that history may prove invaluable if the OP chooses naturalization in the future. This is so bizarre that the records are needed because it's nearing Rocky and Bullwinkle Fractured Fairy Tales status!