bradcanuck

Dude - you're alive! Funny how life goes...it's nice when everything comes together

Don't try to derail an high speed train and hope it won't crash. It's almost certain that it will.
Move, not out of the country, of course, then submit the IR-11, then wait 3 months, then submit the N-400. Trust me, it's faster than trying to undo the damage of a move and attempting to find in what stack of what USCIS field office your derailed N-400 is hiding.

Thank you!
BTW: We stopped off at the post office and filed for an expedited passport on the way home from the ceremony. Ten days to two weeks, we end our VisaJourney that began December 2006.
We never had an error or RFE, and could not have done it without the help of the VJ community!

the only thing of importance in this country is your place of birth, something none of us have a choice of.
This has been a key issue with me with the shock that my wife has to maintain both citizenship and a passport for her home country. Was given a thousand different stories on this. But states both in our DOS site and in the Colombian consulate site, that she must maintain a Colombian passport to visit her mom.
But it also states in the Colombian site, if you become a citizen of a different country your Colombian citizenship is automatically renounce. But if you want to visit Colombia you have to renew your citizenship to get a Colombian passport. The DOS completely ignores this step, just says you have to have a Colombian passport. Apparently, the DOS does not want to admit they are forcing a person to maintain dual citizenship. Another piece of BS from them, say no such thing as dual citizenship, but dual naturalization. What in the hell is the difference?
This whole immigration thing, all those forms, expenses, even this board is based solely on your place of birth, nothing to do with a couple meeting and falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of their days together, just your place of birth! Even problems for the president of these United States, we don't stand a chance in fighting this.
Had a couple of uncles drafted into WW II with my Italian last name, were accepted, but since we were at war with Italy, they changed their names, one was to Fisher, the other to Smith. Stalin and Hitler didn't care about that, would take anyone into their battles, if they wouldn't fight, their commanders would shoot them. While we were hypocritical on this issue, least we didn't shoot our own guys. But even being born here didn't make a difference.
Ironically in tracing my wifes' roots her grandparents were less than 500 miles in Europe from mine. But hers happened to get on a boat to South rather than North America. She had no say in this, but was of extreme major importance to our government. Then they call us the large melting pot.

According to the March filers thread - your timeline isn't really that off - quite a few folks seemed to only recently have had fingerprints done. None have interview dates yet.
Hurry up and wait!

Forming over 1,500 new government agencies over the last 39 years didn't help, until then, agencies could only advise congress, today they are making laws congress has no knowledge of. Before Nixon got in office, every buck had to be backed up with gold, that changed, so the government can print money as fast as they feel like it leading to incredible inflation. That by the way is a hidden form of extra taxation. Millionaires were taxed at a 90% rate, today hardly pay any taxes, can buy a new Gulfstream to entertain their so-called customers with a 100% write off. Would be pretty good if we were all multi-millionaires, but some of us have to work for a living.
Emilio, the now defunct director of the USCIS, US board of immigration attorneys got rid of him, promised the senate committee a 10% improvement in processing dates if he could more than double the rates. Well, doing much better than that. Stepdaughter took four months from start to finish with her US citizenship, about 3-4 years ago, was averaging about two years. Our AOS took 14 months, but when we got the NOA, wife was legal to stay here, that is all I cared about at the time. I see they are still dragging their feet on that all important ROC stage.
Would be great if they returned this country back the way it was 40 years ago. Don't even have to write new laws, just look back in the history books.

Sure - it would eb nice if they would operate as profitable business instead of the government, but since they don't I do not give it much thought...just more wasting of my valuable time.

If she request a waiver and it was approved, 5 years after the date on the Green Card she is eligible for citizenship.

It does happen the other way around as well. I am aware of several denials of entry into Canada as well as several deportations of individuals who were living with their significant other in Canada and hadn't got around to doing the paperwork yet. Canada may be more 'understanding' but you don't want to push your luck either by betting they will always be understanding. I am also aware of Americans who are visiting Canada while waiting for their own PR status to be approved who returned to the US for a short time and then re-entered Canada without a problem, having copies of their documentation with them, and proving that they were aware of and complying with Canadian immigration regulations as well.
That being said, your circumstances - having a legal status in Canada and having applied for a change of legal status that will allow you to continue visiting while your boyfriend finalizes his plans to immigrate to the US - look good.
Canada is a lot more supportive of family relationships and you have given every indication that you are following the correct immigration procedures. So, I would give a little bit more than the minimal' visiting my boyfriend' - but not the whole scenario. Explain that you are visiting your fiance while he waits for the K-1 process to immigrate to the US to be completed and that you are just waiting for approval for your own temporary resident status (visitor) in Canada so you can continue to be together during the process. Have copies of the K-1 application with you as well as copies of your now expired work visa and your application for a Temporary Resident visa (change in status). You want something in between the bare minimum and the full story until they ask for more details and then you would provide them. Good luck.

LOL, if I was " yelling " I would have typed the entire paragraph in capital letters. That is yelling. Capitals for a certain word is emphasis. Yelling is capitals on all the words, the entire paragraph.

Why was this posted to the adjustment of status forum???? The consulate in Montreal has absolutely NOTHING to do with file an I-485 to USCIS to adjust status from a NON-Immigrant to an Immigrant in the USA
Wow..who Pi$$ed in your cornflakes this a.m. That was rather rude of you!
I have found in Canada forum that clicking on "start new topic", you have no idea what forum you are in. I'm sure the OP did not do that intentionally. Get off y'er soapbox!!

Never lie to a border agent. That's the best advice I can give to you. I understand your predicament and yes there is a chance you can be denied entry (anyone can be technically.) The rules are the rules and sometimes they don't work the way we want or need them to. Best of luck to you.

For all practical purposes, and just in order to avoid unnecessary questions, have him file a 1040-EZ once a year. Takes 5 minutes.

You need to find out if there is a deportation order against you. Often when the AOS is denied then they issue a deportation order. Contact USCIS to find out
good luck

As I have been stating for many years, the US is a country full of idiots. There are literally tens of millions of them, uneducated morons who never got a useful school education and never bothered to catch up or educate themselves in any way, shape or form.
While the worst of them work at the SSA and at many DMV offices, they are also found in many positions of life reaching deep in the the educational system, which closes the vicious circle. It's one reason why a large part of the US electorate is so easy to deceive by malicious propaganda and consequently votes against their own interest and for corporations who are working overtime in taking over the US government and the country in general.
The US citizenship test is an embarrassment for this country; it appears to have been created by a non-English-speaking moron who had no clue about the history of the United States at all. If I were the head of Homeland Security, I would have changed the test immediately, as well as I would have taken care of all the false RFE's USCIS is mailing out. Yet, nobody gives a sh*t, and I would not be surprised if Janet or Obama never even had a look at this.
Fifty years ago, the US was on top of the World, truly #1 in about everything, but since Reagan came into office in 1980 this has been deliberately reversed. Now kids bring guns to school, gangbangers engage in drive-by shootings, Americans buy Chinese products, and this country doesn't produce much anymore. Everything is being outsourced. The only entities you have gained influence and made sick money in the past 30 years are the big corporations, the one that pump millions into politicians' campaigns, and the dumb Americans are sitting silent like frogs in a pot where the water is slowly being brought up to boiling temperature. By the time they realize how they f*cked themselves up the you know what, it's going to be too late.

Hope you are not referring to Emilio T. Gonzalez, the former head of the USCIS that was in charge when this test was written. A Cuban refugee that helped GWB to get elected that got him that position. Congress let him go after the American Assoication of Immgration Attorneys filed major complaints against him. This happened just before my wife received her citizenship certificate. So hers was signed by the acting director that only did that for a few months.
Did meet my wife after 9/11 when shortly after that, the old INS, Immigration & Naturalization Services was abolished by GWB with that newly created Agency called Homeland Security that the INS became a part of. Orignially formed becaused the CIA and the FBI couldn't talk to each other that would have prevented 9/11 in the first place. So how do you correct agency problems, create yet another agency of course!
But was able at that time to find old INS forms, and they actually made sense! I was so lost with the new forms, had no choice but to hire an immigration attorney. Come to think of it,most of our laws are written that way. Say one thing, mean another.
Lauren Kielsmeier is the current acting duputy directorof the USCIS, apparently a lot more interested in shifting stuff around with lockboxes so even more applications can get misplaced.
Her education is:
"Ms. Kielsmeier earned a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Community Health from Tufts University. She holds a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from California State University, East Bay."
Isn't immigration dealing with law? But what do I know, I am not a politician. No English degree, but don't even need that to make sense out of the forms and test questions. See nothing as changed since Emilio was dismissed, maybe she hasn't gotten around to reading the forms yet, maybe she doesn't even know the USCIS has forms. Maybe she doesn't know how to read. These are only wild speculations, but one thing I am dead sure on, whoever wrote the USCIS forms, also wrote the IRS forms.

The oath taking will take a month to schedule. If you have 43 days left minus 13 days for your interview you got 30 days left so a month is 30 days, you can stay for a week or 2 to have your US card/Passport made. Have it rush. A few days delayed to go back to Canada won't be that bad...You can find a way, maybe a friend or family/relatives can help you out during that time of waiting.
Hope you can make it...

Someone has lost his job here and is going through a hard time and I am surprised at 1 or 2 of the replies posted here!!
If people here cant answer his question correctly and to the point they should refrain from typing nonsense for the heck of it.
Im amazed at the moronic answers some adults can give to another human who is in need....Obama, Hot Russian girls..Are you kidding me...Seriously!!!
Not everyone has savings or money to live off of for 8 months...
I am speaking out my mind coz i feel for the person...so dont pounce on me with a few more silly replies.
Bradcanuck, I dont have an answer to your question but my best wishes are with you.
I hope you figure things out and everything works out for u....